Peter Goldblum, Ph.D., MPH, is Professor of psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. He received his Ph.D. from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, his MPH from UC, Berkeley School of Public Health, and his MA in Psychology and Teaching from Teachers College of Columbia. He was a founder and original Deputy Director of the UCSF AIDS Health Project and a visiting scholar and Director of the HIV Bereavement and Caregiver Study at Stanford. He is a pioneer in the development of community-based mental health programs for LGBTQ clients with over thirty-five years of experience serving this population in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has contributed to the professional literature related to gay men's health, AIDS related suicide, end of life issues, HIV and work, and AIDS bereavement, including two highly acclaimed books: Strategies for Survival: A Gay Men's Health Manual for the Age of AIDS (with Martin Delaney) and Working with AIDS Bereavement (with Sarah Erickson). In 2008 he received the NCSPP Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Committee Award for his contribution to professional psychology.
 
AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS

Allison Briscoe-Smith, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at PGSP, earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from University of California Berkeley, where she focused on child psychopathology and diversity issues. She completed her internship and postdoctoral work at the University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. After her postdoctoral work she was the Program Director of a mental health program that serves children as they entered into the Alameda county foster care system. Her research has focused on two different topics: Trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how children understand race. Dr. Briscoe-Smith is currently supervising the collection of classroom observations for CLEAR's San Francisco Welcoming Schools Guide Pilot.

Amanda Houston-Hamilton, DMH, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and a practicing psychotherapist with clinical, teaching, research and consulting experience emphasizing the needs of ethnic minorities, ³hard to reach² populations, and under-served communities. Most recently a member of the staff of the Center for Health and Community at UCSF, she has been a Research Scientist at the Northern California Cancer Center. In addition to clinical research on developmental adaptations to race, her work on health behaviors has focused on reproductive health care decisions and the self-care practices of low-income women, and the HIV prevention and service barriers of gay and bisexual youth and men who have sex with men. Dr. Houston-Hamilton consults to CLEAR on community participator research for the San Francisco Welcoming Schools Guide Pilot.

Joyce P. Chu, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor & Director Multicultural Suicide Research Center (MSRC) at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. She earned her BA and MA in psychology at Stanford University, her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan, and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Chu's work is focused around the treatment of mood disorders in young adults, adults, and elderly populations. She has a particular emphasis on ethnic minority populations and diversity work. Her research is community-collaborative and aims to understand barriers to service use and develop culturally congruent outreach and treatment options for underserved communities.

Rowena Gomez, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Her clinical background is in aging and neuropsychology. She has also applied these areas to the study of affective disorders, in particular psychotic major depression. She is also interested in the diagnosis and treatment of dementia, and older adults' ability to cope with age-related changes. Dr. Gomez completed her undergraduate work at University of California at Berkeley, majoring in psychology and social welfare. Her research there focused on PET studies of depression and dementia. Her graduate training was at Washington University at St. Louis in the tracks of Aging and Neuropsychology. She then went to Palo Alto Veteran's Health Care System for her clinical neuropsychology internship. In 2002, she became a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. There she applied her background of aging and neurospychology to depressive disorders. In 2004, she received a Young Investigator Award Grant by the National Alliance of Research for Schizophrenia and Depression to examine the cognitive, hormonal, and (brain) structural differences in Psychotic Major Depression versus Nonpsychotic Major Depression.

Matthew Skinta, Ph.D. is the research manager at the UCSF AIDS Health Project. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the HIV Behavioral Medicine Program at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center after completing his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Kent State University. His dissertation was entitled, ³The effects of bullying and internalized homophobia on the psychopathological symptoms in a community sample of gay men."
 
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Amelia Fystrom is a third year Ph.D. student at PGSP working on the San Francisco Welcoming Schools Guide Evaluation.

Nicolas Grant is a first year Ph.D. student at PGSP working on the Sexual Minorities Stress Scale.

Wendy Ratto is a second year Ph.D. student at PGSP working on the Predictors of Psychological Distress in Older Gay Men and Lesbians

Louis Stephenson is a third year Ph.D student at PGSP working on the Sexual Minorities Stress Scale.

Roxanne Upah is a first year Ph.D. student at PGSP working on the Sexual and Gender Identities Clinic Project
 
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Larry Beutler, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, is Past President of Divisions 29 (Psychotherapy) and 12 (Clinical) of APA, and a two term Past President (international) of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Among his citations and achievements, he is a recipient of the Distinguished Career award from SPR, the Gold Medal Award from the American Psychological Foundation, and a Presidential citation for achievement from the APA. He has published over 350 scholarly articles and chapters and is the author or co-author of 20 books on psychotherapy, assessment, and psychopathology

Bruce Bongar, Ph.D., ABPP, FAPM is a professor at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Bongar received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and served his internship in clinical community psychology with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. Past clinical appointments include service as a senior clinical psychologist with the Division of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and work as a clinical/community mental health psychologist on the psychiatric emergency team of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. For over 25 years he maintained a small practice specializing in psychotherapy, consultation and supervision in working with the difficult and life-threatening patient. He is past president of the Section on Clinical Crises and Emergencies of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association, a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, a fellow of the Divisions of Clinical Psychology (12), Psychology and the Law (41), and Psychotherapy (29) of the American Psychological Association, a fellow of the American Psychological Society and of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and a chartered clinical psychologist of the British Psychological Society. Dr. Bongar is also a winner of the Edwin Shneidman Award from the American Association of Suicidology for outstanding early career contributions to suicide research, and the Louis I. Dublin award for lifetime achievement in research on suicidology. Since 2001, he has also become interested in the psychology of mass casualty events and suicide terrorism. His research and published work reflects his long-standing interest in the wide-ranging complexities of therapeutic interventions with difficult patients in general, and in suicide and life-threatening behaviors in particular.

James Dilley, M.D. is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF Department of Psychiatry and is the Executive Director of the UCSF AIDS Health Project. He recently received the Richard L. Schlegel National Legion of Honor Award for his outstanding contributions to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in their fight against HIV and AIDS. Widely published on AIDS and mental health he has lectured extensively about the psychiatric and neuropsychological aspects of the HIV disease, earning a national reputation for his work.

Jeanette Hsu, Ph.D. is a staff psychologist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and the Training Director for the psychology internship and postdoctoral training programs. She has been Visiting Graduate Faculty at San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, where she has taught courses in clinical supervision, multicultural psychology, and substance abuse assessment and treatment. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. Her professional interests include behavioral medicine/health psychology, developmental psychopathology, and the teaching and supervision of multicultural competence. Dr. Hsu has been active in numerous professional associations, including the Asian American Psychological Association, Association for Women in Psychology, and Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35 of the American Psychological Association). She has just completed two terms on the Board of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC), serving as Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Conference Chair, and Directory Editor during 10 years of involvement with APPIC. She is currently on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Psychology of Women and Chair-Elect of the VA Psychology Training Council.

Cheryl Koopman, Ph.D. is Associate Research Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in education from the University of Virginia and completed post-doctoral training at Harvard University in psychiatry and Columbia University in social, organizational and counseling psychology and international relations and public policy. She has published extensively on psychosocial factors and interventions to promote quality of life and health among persons living with HIV and other illnesses and to reduce stress and health risk behavior among persons from underserved populations. Teaching areas include traumatic stress and research methods and statistics.

Lawrence M. McGlynn, M.D. is the Director of HIV Mental Health Services at Stanford University Positive Care Program and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Stanford-Santa Clara County Crystal Methamphetamine and HIV Task Force. Dr. Mc Glynn received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.

Dan McPherson, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of the School of Education at University of San Francisco and teaches in the Master of Arts Program in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies. Dr. McPherson's research and professional interests include law and ethics in clinical practice, non-traditional couple and family dynamics, and gay parenting.

Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Family Studies and Human Development in the John & Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. in sociology at Duke University in 1994 with a concentration in life course studies and demography. Before coming to the University of Arizona in the summer of 2004 he was on faculty at the University of California, Davis (1999-2004) and the University of Nebraska ­ Lincoln (1997-1999). Stephen was a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar (2001-2006), and is a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. Stephen's research focuses on adolescent ethnic and sexual identities, sexuality development, and sexual health. He conducts research on adolescent pregnancy and parenting, and on the health and development of sexual minority youth.

Lynn C. Waelde, Ph.D. is a Professor at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr Waelde earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in anthropology from Louisiana State University. She received her doctorate in Developmental Child Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has special interests in diversity, qualitative research methods, and statistical techniques. Dr. Waelde provides statistical consultation for the Sexual Minority Stress Scale.