Our primary research area is
health
psychology.
As can be seen from the range of research
projects described below, some current topics of study include
mindfulness, health behavior, gender,
and coping with chronic illness.
Dr. Sharon Danoff-Burg is an Associate Professor who joined the University at Albany faculty in 1999. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas. She completed her clinical internship at Dartmouth Medical School and postdoctoral training at the City University of New York Graduate School.
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Lisa Dulgar-Tulloch is sixth year graduate student in clinical psychology. She earned her bachelor's degree from Princeton
University. Lisa's research interests include moderators of the treatment process; the interrelation of physical and psychological variables in pathology, including the influence of stress in physical and psychological illness; and the development of empirically supported, clinically effective treatments.
Christoffer Grant is a fifth year graduate student in clinical psychology. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut. His research interests include mindfulness and emotion regulation strategies, cardiovascular risk, substance use, gender, and the role of stress and coping in the context of health behaviors.
Vivian Hwang is a first year graduate student in clinical
psychology. She earned her bachelor's degree from Tufts University. Vivian's research
interests are in the psychosocial aspects of coping with chronic illness.
Dr. Catherine
Mosher received
her
doctorate from UAlbany in 2007. She's now a Postdoctoral Fellow in
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in Manhattan. 
