Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Dr. Kristen E.
Riley (she/hers) is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Applied
and Professional Psychology. She obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with
a certificate in health psychology from the University of Connecticut. Her
program of research aims to decrease health disparities by integration of
behavioral health into primary care, health care, and cancer settings.
Specifically, she studies stigma including lung cancer stigma, risk perceptions,
and health behaviors, and she uses dissemination and implementation science to
get interventions to those who need them most, such as her Black maternal
mortality and morbidity intervention research. She is the director of the
Health Psychology Clinic, which treats underserved patients with insomnia,
tobacco use, and cancer. She is fluent in Spanish.
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