Experts by Field: Human Behavior and Psychology

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12/19/18
Daniel Antonius
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Expertise: terrorism, violence, aggression, CTE and behavior, mental health and the legal system
Phone: 716-898-5290
Email: danielan@buffalo.edu
12/7/16
Stephanie Anzman-Frasca
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Expertise: childhood obesity, children’s eating habits, infant and child behavior and development
Contact: Stephanie Anzman-Frasca can be reached through Ellen Goldbaum in University Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu.
7/3/20
Laina Y. Bay-Cheng

Professor of Social Work

Expertise: sexual rights, agency and consent; girls’ and women’s sexuality; impact of social injustice on girls’ and women’s sexual lives; sexuality education
Email: lb35@buffalo.edu
3/16/20
Kate Bezrukova
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: team chemistry in business and sports; managing a diverse workforce; unconscious bias at work; negotiations and gender; work-life balance; conflict management; artificial intelligence in teams

Contact: Kate Bezrukova can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
11/7/19
Richard D. Blondell

Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine

Expertise: addiction, substance abuse, opioids
Contact: Richard Blondell can be reached most quickly through Ellen Goldbaum in University Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in University Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
5/28/19
Susan K. Cahn

Professor of History

Expertise: gender and sexuality in sports, homophobia in sports, women’s history, feminist theory, history of chronic illness, history of mental illness
Phone: 716-645-8418
Email: cahn@buffalo.edu
2/6/18
Claire E. Cameron

Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: early childhood education, childhood development, educational psychology, classroom management

Phone: 716-645-4075
Email: cecamero@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Lora Cavuoto
Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Expertise: ergonomics, occupational safety and health, fatigue monitoring, worker quality of life

Phone: 716-645-4696
Email: loracavu@buffalo.edu
9/26/19
Yu-Ping Chang

Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Endowed Professor of Nursing

Expertise: mental health; substance abuse and addiction; family caregiving and dementia

Phone: 716-829-2015
Email: yc73@buffalo.edu
12/7/16
R. Lorraine Collins
Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior
Expertise: substance abuse, malt liquor and marijuana use, drinking restraint, smoking, women's issues
Phone: 716-829-6951
Email: lcollins@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Catherine Cook-Cottone
Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Expertise: yoga, mindfulness, embodied self-regulation, eating disorders, anxiety-based disorders

Phone: 716-645-1128
Email: cpcook@buffalo.edu
2/17/20
Derek Daniels

Professor of Psychology

Expertise: science of thirst; science of food, water and salt intake; ingestive/eating behaviors
Phone: 716-645-0264
Email: danielsd@buffalo.edu
6/16/20
Tildabeth Doscher

Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Expertise: addiction medicine, substance use treatment, opioid epidemic, methadone
Phone: 716-829-6775. Doscher can also be reached through Ellen Goldbaum in University Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in University Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
Email: tildabet@buffalo.edu
12/8/16
Steven L. Dubovsky

Professor and Chair of Psychiatry
Expertise: trauma, depression, mood disorders, psychosis, psychosomatic medicine
Phone: 716-898-5940
Email: dubovsky@buffalo.edu
12/7/16
Charles P. Ewing
Professor of Law

Expertise: crime, psychology of crime, forensic psychology, criminal trials, murder trials, insanity defense, death penalty, juvenile law, sex offenders

Phone: 716-645-2770
Email: cewing@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Myles S. Faith

Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

Expertise: childhood obesity, children’s eating habits, family health
Phone: 716-645-1124
Email: mfaith@buffalo.edu
3/31/20
Shira Gabriel

Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: social psychology, social connections, sense of self, the need to belong, comfort food
Phone: 716-645-0227
Email: sgabriel@buffalo.edu
6/21/19
Gary A. Giovino
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior
Expertise: nicotine addiction, smoking, tobacco policy, smoking cessation
Phone: 716-829-6953
Email: ggiovino@buffalo.edu
6/22/20
Melanie Green
Professor of Communication

Expertise: persuasion, power of narrative, storytelling, online friendships, trust and deception online
Phone: 716-645-1508
Email: mcgreen2@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Susan Green
Co-director of the Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
Expertise: trauma, trauma-informed care in organizations and service delivery systems
Phone: 716-645-1249
Email: sagreen@buffalo.edu
9/15/20
Emily Grijalva
Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: narcissism, gender, leadership

Contact: Emily Grijalva can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
12/27/18
Kim Griswold, MD
Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry

Expertise: health care for refugees and immigrants; trauma; survivors of torture; cultural competency in medicine; patient-centered medical homes; integrated medical and behavioral health care
Phone: 716-816-7248
Email: griswol@buffalo.edu
9/14/20
Amy Hequembourg

Associate Professor of Nursing

Expertise: health disparities affecting sexual minorities

Phone: 716-829-2608
Email: ahequemb@buffalo.edu
1/14/21
Gregory Homish

Professor and Chair of Community Health and Health Behavior

Expertise: substance use and misuse; substance use among military personnel; substance use and families; emergency preparedness and response; health of emergency responders

Phone: 716-829-6959
Email: ghomish@buffalo.edu
2/6/18
Timothy P. Janikowski
Associate Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Expertise: counselor education, clinical supervision, counselor competencies and ethics; vocational rehabilitation counseling; substance abuse
Phone: 716-645-1122
Email: tjanikow@buffalo.edu
9/8/20
Tiffany Karalis Noel

Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: sociocultural inequity in education, teacher preparation and retention, mentoring in higher education

Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: tbkarali@buffalo.edu
2/21/19
Lynn T. Kozlowski
Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior
Expertise: nicotine addiction, smoking, vaping, tobacco and e-cigarette policy, FDA regulations on nicotine products
Phone: 716-829-6770
Email: lk22@buffalo.edu
8/22/18
Jessica Kruger

Clinical Assistant Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior

Expertise: binge-watching, consumption, addictive behaviors, substance use and abuse, health behavior decision-making
Phone: 716-829-6748
Email: jskruger@buffalo.edu
3/28/19
Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD

Chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine

Expertise: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), psychosocial aspects of chronic pain disorders, behavioral medicine, brain-gut interactions, impact of chronic disease on quality of life, chronic care management

Phone: 716-898-5671
Email: lackner@buffalo.edu
3/16/20
Arun Lakshmanan
Associate Professor of Marketing
Expertise: sensory marketing and visual perception; consumer attention and learning; new product use and design; advertising and social media

Contact: Arun Lakshmanan can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
3/16/20
G. James Lemoine
Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: servant leadership; gender and leadership; ethics and moral leadership; leadership and motivation; entrepreneurial leaders; creativity and innovation; managing under volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA)

Contact: G. James Lemoine can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
12/11/18
Kenneth E. Leonard
Director of the Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

Expertise: alcohol, substance abuse and aggression; effects of substance use on marriage, families and relationships; interpersonal (domestic) violence; medical and recreational marijuana; prescription painkillers
Phone: 716-887-2566
Email: leonard@ria.buffalo.edu
12/6/16
Charles Lindsey

Associate Professor of Marketing

Expertise: consumer behavior, advertising, marketing strategy and research, brand loyalty, serving and package sizes

Contact: Charles Lindsey can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
12/7/16
Patricia Logan-Greene
Assistant Professor of Social Work

Expertise: violence and victimization, juvenile justice, adverse childhood experiences, prevention of problem behaviors, forensic social work

Phone: 716-645-1533
Email: pblogang@buffalo.edu
3/16/20
Timothy Maynes
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: employee-driven innovation and change; employee productivity, engagement and performance; effective team functioning (especially in sports)

Contact: Timothy Maynes can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/22/19
Elizabeth Mazzolini

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: Mount Everest, mountaineering deaths, climbing technology, consumerism, material culture, garbage, culture of waste

Phone: 716-645-0691
Email: mazz@buffalo.edu
8/20/18
Ryan Muldoon

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Expertise: social and political philosophy, diversity, international development policy, social norms, behavior change, ethics

Phone: 716-645-0140
Email: rmuldoon@buffalo.edu
12/27/18
Amanda Nickerson
Director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention
Expertise: school violence, bullying prevention and intervention, parent and peer relationships, assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders
Phone: 716-645-1532
Email: alberticenter@buffalo.edu
3/26/20
Yotam Ophir

Assistant Professor of Communication

Expertise: misinformation; persuasion; effect of media content on audiences, including in health, science, politics and terrorism

Phone: 716-645-1158
Email: yotamoph@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Jamie Ostrov
Professor of Psychology
Expertise: subtypes of aggression and victimization, developmental psychopathology, media effects on children, peer relationships, applied developmental psychology
Phone: 716-645-3680
Email: jostrov@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Lora Park
Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: self, self-esteem, motivation, interpersonal processes
Phone: 716-645-0228
Email: lorapark@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Michael J. Poulin
Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: empathy, human generosity, stress, caregiving
Phone: 716-645-0518
Email: mjpoulin@buffalo.edu
8/28/18
Wendy Quinton

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise: prejudice, discrimination, stigma, social identity, student adjustment and success, international students

Phone: 716-645-0230
Email: wquinton@buffalo.edu
4/2/20
Michael Rembis

Director of the Center for Disability Studies

Expertise: disability history; disability studies; history of madness and mental illness; mental health in the context of prisons/mass incarceration; history of eugenics

Phone: Michael Rembis can be reached most quickly via email. He can also be reached through Charlotte Hsu in University Communications at 716-645-4655 or chsu22@buffalo.edu.
Email: marembis@buffalo.edu
2/6/18
Amy Reynolds

Associate Professor, Department of Counseling

Expertise: multicultural issues, college student mental health

Phone: 716-645-1112
Email: alr24@buffalo.edu
3/28/18
David Schmid
Associate Professor of English
Expertise: popular culture, cultural studies, celebrity, crime, manhood, the monstrous, contemporary British and American fiction, American literary and cultural treatments of the city
Phone: 716-645-0679
Email: schmid@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Mark Seery
Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: stress, coping
Phone: 716-645-0239
Email: mdseery@buffalo.edu
6/25/19
Monica Stephens

Assistant Professor of Geography

Expertise: social media, social media and politics, digital divides, misinformation (fake news), mapping social phenomena, volunteered geographic information (VGI), Big Data, gender and the Internet

Phone: 716-645-0499
Email: mgstephe@buffalo.edu
6/3/20
Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
Director of the Center for Urban Studies
Expertise: urban development, housing, gentrification, underdeveloped neighborhoods, shrinking cities, race and class, U.S.-Cuba relations

Phone: 716-829-5458
Email: htaylor@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Jennifer L. Temple
Associate Professor of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, and Community Health and Health Behavior
Expertise: caffeine use among kids, energy drinks, obesity

Phone: 716-829-5593
Email: jltemple@buffalo.edu
12/6/16
Paul Tesluk
Dean and Professor of the School of Management

Expertise: team design and organizational effectiveness, leadership development, organizational change and innovation

Contact: Paul Tesluk can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
12/26/18
Panayotis (Peter) K. Thanos

Senior Research Scientist at the Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

Expertise: addiction; reward pathways in the brain; addictive disorders including drug abuse, alcoholism and obesity
Phone: 716-881-7520
Email: pthanos@ria.buffalo.edu
6/30/20
Letitia Thomas

Assistant Dean for Diversity in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Expertise: STEM education and pipelines; women and students of color in STEM; sociology of education; social justice; social networks; microaggressions
Phone: 716-645-3071
Email: lthomas@buffalo.edu
9/3/20
Ann-Marie Torregrossa

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise: taste science, feeding, food choice, bitterness
Phone: 716-645-0354
Email: amtorreg@buffalo.edu
3/16/20
Min-Hsuan Tu
Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: abusive leadership; power and influence; leader identity and development

Contact: Min-Hsuan Tu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
5/14/20
John M. Violanti

Research Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Expertise: police stress, health and suicide; PTSD

Phone: 716-829-5481
Email: violanti@buffalo.edu
10/22/20
Hua (Helen) Wang

Associate Professor of Communication

Expertise: communication strategies for health promotion and social change; entertainment-education; communication technology; social networks; digital media literacy; health interventions
Phone: 716-645-1501
Email: hwang23@buffalo.edu
7/2/20
Hilary Weaver
Professor of Social Work

Expertise: Multicultural social work; historical and contemporary issues affecting Indigenous Peoples, including Native Americans; refugee health and well-being; trauma and resilience
Phone: 716-645-1226
Email: hweaver@buffalo.edu
3/28/20
Janet Yang

Associate Professor of Communication

Expertise: science, health, environmental and risk communication

Phone: 716-645-1169
Email: zyang5@buffalo.edu

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