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UCSF Clinical Psychology Training Program
research interests include treatment outcome investigations into
the role of cognition and affect mediating the management of
acute and chronic pain, especially among culturally diverse and
underserved populations. His teaching and training efforts
emphasize a scientist-practitioner model accompanied by
interactive and problem-based learning approaches.
JASON M. SATTERFIELD is Associate Professor and
Director of Behavioral Medicine in the Division of General
Internal Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1995 where he worked with Drs. Martin
Seligman and Aaron T. Beck. Dr. Satterfield's interests include
cognitive models of depression, explanatory style, stress and
coping, and the role of depression in medical adherence and the
experience of illness. His current projects include integrated
behavioral health models for primary care, learned helplessness
in the somatically-focused patient, emotional intelligence in
primary care, and the integration of culture and behavioral
sciences in medical curricula. Dr. Satterfield currently provides
CBT supervision, teaches behavioral medicine to primary care
physicians, and coordinates behavioral science education for
medical students.
SUSAN SCHEIDT is a Clinical Professor of Psychology
in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco General
Hospital. She studied at the University of Uppsala, Sweden,
received her B.A. degree in psychology from California State
University, Fresno, and the Psy.D. from Rutgers University. Dr.
Scheidt was a Fellow in the UCSF Clinical Psychology Training
Program from 1983-85, and subsequently was an Attending
Psychologist and Unit Chief on the Women's and Latino focus
inpatient unit at SFGH. For the past eleven years, Dr. Scheidt
has developed her interests in behavioral medicine, serving as
the Coordinator of Training for the Psychosocial Medicine
CAPIC Psychology Training Program, and developing a model
for primary care psychology with primary care clinics. Her
current clinical interests are focused on the primary care-mental
health interface, substance abuse interventions, and teaching and
supervision issues.
JAMES L. SORENSEN is Professor in the UCSF
Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital
(SFGH). He earned the Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the
University of Rochester in 1975. For three years he was
assistant professor in the clinical psychology training program at
Bowling Green State University, after which he took a National
Research Service Award postdoctoral traineeship at UCSF. He
served as Chief of Substance Abuse Services at SFGH for 13
years. His research has focused on developing better treatments
to help people with substance abuse problems. Dr. Sorensen has
chaired the Services Research Review Committee at National
Institute on Drug Abuse, serves on the editorial board of Drug
and Alcohol Dependence, Journal of Maintenance in the
Addictions, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, and Science
& Practice Perspectives. He is senior author of A Family Like
Yours: Breaking the Patterns of Drug Abuse (Harper & Row),
Preventing AIDS in Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners
(Guilford), and senior editor of Drug Abuse Through
Collaboration: Practice and Research Partnerships That Work
(American Psychological Association). Currently his research
includes two funded projects: therapeutic community and
outpatient replacement therapy, and the California-Arizona
Research Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network.
MARGARET STROAD is Assistant Clinical Professor in
the Department of Psychiatry of the UCSF San Francisco
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General Hospital campus. She is a staff psychologist on the
Neuropsychology Service of the Division of Psychosocial
Medicine at SFGH where she teaches and supervises
postdoctoral fellows in neuropsychological assessment. In
addition, she is in private practice in San Francisco. Her
practice involves psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults and
adolescents and couples’ therapy. She completed the Ph.D.
degree in clinical psychology from California School of
Professional Psychology in 1979. Her clinical interests include
the study of effects of childhood trauma, including assessment
and treatment of dissociative and anxiety disorders.
JANICE Y. TSOH is an Associate Adjunct Professor in
the Department of Psychiatry LPPI and a licensed clinical
psychologist. She received her BA from the State University of
New York at Binghamton in 1990 and her Ph.D. in clinical
psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 1995. She
completed her clinical internship at the University of
Mississippi Medical Center/VA Medical Center Consortium
specializing in behavioral medicine. She completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in cancer prevention at the MD
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and a fellowship in
substance abuse treatment research at UCSF. Dr. Tsoh's current
research program is being supported by the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the American Cancer Society (ACS)
and the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program.
Her research projects focus on nicotine dependence and
depression, and smoking cessation treatment in special
populations including Chinese Americans, depressed patients,
and smokers in drug abuse treatment.
DANIEL S. WEISS is Professor of in the Department of
Psychiatry. He earned his BA and MA in 1973 from the Johns
Hopkins University and received the PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley, where he pursued both clinical and
personality psychology studies. He maintains an active faculty
practice in adult psychology and has served as a licensure
Examiner for the California Board of Psychology from 1983
through 2001 when the Board eliminated the oral exam. His
research interests in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder have been
recognized by his being awarded the Robert S. Laufer Award
for Excellence in Research by the International Society for
Traumatic Stress Studies. He has recently completed a metaanalysis
of the predictors of developing PTSD which has been
published in Psychological Bulletin. He served on the National
Institute of Mental Health’s Clinical Psychopathology Grant
Review Committee from 1995-1999, and currently reviews
grants for the NIH and DOD. He was Director of Research of
the PTSD program at the SFVAMC from 1990-2001. Currently
Associate Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, he
regularly reviews manuscripts for top journals in psychology
and psychiatry. His other research interests are in the
phenomenology of crying, especially in psychotherapy,
dissociative processes as they relate to PTSD, and in
classification research, especially in an approach termed
taxometrics.