Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Kristen E.
Riley 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, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center. She is a clinical health psychologist and
behavioral medicine researcher. Her program of research aims to get people
unstuck from maladaptive health behavior patterns at the individual, community,
and systems levels for cancer prevention and health equity. Specifically, Dr. Riley
optimizes health behavior interventions by focusing on cognitive components
such as rumination, superstition, and stigma, and she uses dissemination and
implementation science to integrate psychology and behavioral medicine into
medical settings to get interventions to those who need them most. She is
fluent in Spanish. She has special interests in daily diary methodology
and health equity.
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