Dr.
Mark Carrier |
Dr.
Carrier's specialty area is Cognitive Psychology, especially Human
Memory and Learning, and he has been conducting experimental research
into cognitive psychology and applied cognitive psychology since
1988. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the
University of California, San Diego in 1994, and has been teaching
graduate and undergraduate psychology since then, first at Florida
State University and now at CSU Dominguez Hills where he is Associate
Professor of Psychology. His current teaching assignments include
Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving and an upper-division course in
Health Psychology. Dr. Carrier has mentored students from the
RISE, APA/NIGMS Scholars, and the McNair biomedical education and
research programs on campus. Titles of recent research projects
include "The Effect of Cultural Background upon Comprehension of Health
Education Materials" and "The Effect of Linguistic Simplicity upon
Understanding of Patient Education Materials." He can be reached at lcarrier@csudh.edu. |
| Dr.
Lisa Gray-Shellberg |
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| Dr.
Maria Hurtado-Ortiz |
Dr.
Maria T. Hurtado-Ortiz received her BA and MA in Psychology from the
University of California, Riverside (UCR). After receiving her
Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from UCR in December 1997, she
completed a 1 1/2 year postdoc at the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute
(TRPI) and taught part-time for Pitzer College and UCR. Directly
after completing her postdoc at TRPI, she took a full-time,
tenure-track teaching position at California State University,
Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) in August, 1999. She was hired as an
Assistant Professor of Psychology. Recently, in 2004 and 2005 she
was promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology and earned tenure,
respectively. During her tenure at CSUDH, Dr. Hurtado-Ortiz's
program of research centered on: 1) the educational aspirations and
achievements of Hispanic immigrants and non-immigrants; 2) childcare
barriers, practices, and preferences of Hispanic and Euro-American
women; and 3) the living conditions of Hispanic immigrants residing in
California and Texas. Dr. Hurtado-Ortiz currently needs assistance with the completion of a literature review on childcare barriers, practices, and preferences in the Latino community. In additon, Dr. Hurtado-Ortiz and Dr. Santos are seeking funds from NIH to begin a new project that examines the beliefs and attitudes of Latino college students who have a family member with type 2 diabetes. If funded we will need research assistants to help us collect data. It is expected that students invlolved in any of the research projects will present findings at the convention for the Western Psychological Association to be held in Palm Springs, California in 2006. |
Dr.
Karen Mason |
Dr.
Karen Mason is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology,
and the coordinator of the Master of Arts Psychology Program. She
obtained her doctoral degree from Howard University in 2000 and went on
to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry
and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at
UCLA. Her early research examined the effects of HIV on
neurocognitive functioning and resulted in the first published study
examining the neuropsychological effects of HIV in African American
women. She expanded her research to drug and alcohol abuse in HIV
as well as the study of neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric predictors
of antiretroviral medication adherence. Dr. Mason was awarded a
Canadian Institute of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship to
support her research and later received an R03 grant from the NIH,
National Institute on Aging to examine the interactive effects of older
age and ethnicity on the neurocognitive sequelae of HIV
infection. She is also a co-investigator on a National Institute
on Drug Abuse funded grant, awarded to UCLA, to examine ethnic
disparities in patterns of drug abuse/dependence and antiretroviral
medication adherence. Dr. Mason and her colleagues have published
their work in numerous journals including the Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Neuropsychology, the Journal
of the International Neuropsychological Society, Neurology, and
AIDS. In
addition, Dr. Mason is the co-author of the book chapter,
Neuropsychiatric manifestations of HIV-1 infection and AIDS in Neuropsychopharmacology- The Fifth
Generation of Progress. She has presented her work at
local, national, and international conferences. Dr. Mason is a native of Ontario, Canada and is featured in the 2000 book, "Millenium Minds 100 Black Canadians," a showcase of one hundred African-Canadians who have in diverse ways contributed to Canada's development. Dr. Mason is a licensed neuropsychologist. Her clinical work focuses on the detection of neurodevelopmental issues in children and adolescents, as well as treatment planning for children with learning and processing issues. She is also a volunteer supervisor for the HELP Group in Sherman Oaks, California, and a Regional Trainer for the American Psychological Association's (APA's) HIV Office for Psychology Education (HOPE) Program. |
Dr.
Keisha Paxton |
Dr.
Keisha C. Paxton received
her BA degrees in Psychology and African-American Studies from the
University of California, Los Angeles in 1995, and her MA and Ph.D. in
Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in Community Psychology,
from DePaul University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Dr. Paxton
also completed her predoctoral clinical internship at the University of
California, San Diego. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship
from the National Institute of Mental Health in 2003 in HIV and mental
health. Dr. Paxton's work includes collaborating and consulting with local community-based organizations in the areas of designing research/evaluation plans, overseeing the implementation of the evaluations, and overseeing data collection, input, and analyses. Dr. Paxton has amassed several years of working in the Los Angeles community. She has worked closely with health service providers and grassroots organizations providing consultation regarding service provision, evaluation, and research activities. Dr. Paxton has also worked on government-supported community committees such as the Second District HIV/AIDS Coalition and the Los Angeles County HIV Prevention Planning Committee. She has also had leadership positions within the community to develop community-driven plans to address such maladies as HIV/AIDS and depression in African-Amercian communities. Dr. Paxton's research includes a project to develop a line of research in the area of sexual health and HIV prevention among under-represented populations, primarily African-Americans. Her research interests include sexual risk behavior among African American adolescents, HIV/STD prevention, sexual health program development for African-American women and the intersection of mental health and risk behavior. She is also starting two new research projects. The first project will explore sexual risk behavior among African-American heterosexual men and the second project wil explore mental health issues and self esteem among women. |
Dr.
Larry Rosen |
Dr.
Larry Rosen is Past Chair
and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez
Hills. He is a research psychologist, computer educator and is
recognized as an international expert in the "Psychology of
Technology." Over the past 20 years, Dr. Rosen and his colleagues have
examined reactions to technology among over 20,000 people in the United
States and in 22 other countries. He has written two books
including TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @Work, @Home @Play, many
articles for professional journals, and writes a technology column for
the newspaper The National Psychologist. Dr. Rosen has also given
keynote speeches in Italy, Germany, Spain, Hungary, and Slovakia among
other countries. For his research, teaching and university
service, Dr. Rosen has been honored twice in the past decade as one of
the Outstanding Professors in the California State University system. His current research involves an investigation of the emergence of online dating and its similarities and differences from traditional dating. Dr. Rosen is a member of the Board of Directors of the SEE Center for the Advancement of Deaf Children, which oversees worldwide programs for educating deaf children through sign language. Through experiences with his deaf son, he is a strong advocate for the use of Signing Exact English, a sign language that preserves English word order and provides a strong conceptual basis for acquiring language skills. Dr. Rosen received his B.A. in Mathematics (Summa Cum Laude) from UCLA where he was honored as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California at San Diego and resides in San Diego, California. |
| Dr. Silvia Santos |
Dr.
Silvia J. Santos is a
Professor of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez
Hills. She earned a Ph.D. in social personality psychology from the
University of California, Riverside, 1990. Her research interests
and publications have centered on ethnic minority and Latino immigrant
mental health and the role of faculty mentoring in the academic
adjustment of college students. Furthermore, Dr. Santos has
published in the field of ethnic identity and is currently co-authoring
a book to be entitled "Defining
Oneself in a Multi-Cultural Context: Ethnic Identity in College
Students." Dr. Santos serves as a faculty mentor for the RISE,
APA/NIGMS Scholars, and the McNair undergraduate programs. She is
seeking research assistants to work on a new project that will focus on
the "Mental Models of Diabetes Among
at Risk College Students"(Spring 2006). Dr. Santos can be
reached at ssantos@csudh.edu. Titles of most recent publications: |
Dr.
Carl Sneed |
Dr.
Carl D. Sneed received his
BA and MA in Psychology from California State University,
Fullerton. After receiving his Ph.D. in Social/Personality
Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 1994, he
completed a one-year postdoc funded by the National Institutes of
Mental Health in the Department of Psychology and Education at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Directly after
completing his postdoc at UCLA, he took a Research Associate position
in the School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences. In
1998, he became an Assistant Researcher in Community Health
Sciences. Dr. Sneed has several publications on adolescent health
behavior. He currently has an interest in applied studies
concerning adolescent health and mental health. Projects that currently need assistance: 1. Content analyses of adolescent sexual behavior and dating relationships depicted on prime time television. 2. Content analyses of sexual education material on the internet for adolescents. 3. Secondary analyses on health-risk behavior among a community sample of Latino Adolescents. 4. Development of a project assessing college students retrospective self-reports of sex education conversations with caregivers. In additon, Dr. Sneed has access to national and local data sets on adolescent health and risk behaviors (California Health Kids Survey and Add Health) that can be analyzed for presentation and publication. It is expected that students involved in any of these research projects will be first authors on the presentation of findings at the convention for the Western Psychological Association to be held in Palm Springs, California in 2006. |
| Dr.
Tara Victor |
Dr. Victor’s primary research and clinical
interests are in
the field of neuropsychology. She
received her BA in Psychology from the Recent publications: Boone, K., Victor,
T., Wen,
J., Razani, J. & Ponton, M. (In
press). The association between
ethnicity and neuropsychological scores in a large patient population. Archives
of Clinical Neuropsychology. |
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