People in the Department of Psychology
Members of the psychology faculty are excellent teachers and productive researchers. Three faculty members have received the Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award and others are active participants in the New Faculty Teaching Scholars Program, the Curriculum Diversity Program, and the campus program, FaCET, promoting excellence in teaching. On the research side, our faculty are nationally known scholars in areas that include perception, emotion, and attention as they relate to clinical conditions and health; adolescents’ peer and family relationships; risk behaviors and HIV/AIDS; eating disorders and obesity; cancer; tobacco smoking, cardiovascular treatment and rehabilitation; and rehabilitation among persons with serious mental illness. Detailed information about each of our faculty members can be obtained by clicking the links below.
Faculty
Clinical Ph.D. and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Faculty
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Social psychology; social cognition and health; psychosocial predictors of recovery from cardiovascular disease; stress and coping
(Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno)
E-Mail: bennettkk@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-6370
Clinical Ph.D. and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Faculty
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: HIV prevention and screening, applied research in African American church settings, translation research, and health communication
(Ph.D., University of Kansas)
E-Mail: berkleypattonj@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-6710
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Neuroimaging of obesity; Childhood obesity and
eating behaviors; Neuroeconomics and neuromarketing; Functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Feeding interventions for
medically complicated children.
E-Mail: bruceam@umkc.edu
Clinical Ph.D. Program Faculty
Assistant Professor
Faculty Mentor- PhD Class of 2008
Research Interests: Neuropsychology, multiple sclerosis, treatment of cognitive disorders, adherence to complex medication schedules, traumatic brain injury, dementia, delirium, functional brain imaging.
E-Mail: brucejm@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-5429
Clinical Ph.D. Program Faculty
Associate Professor
Co-Director of Clinical Training
Research Interests: Psychology and health, nicotine addiction/smoking cessation, motivational interviewing, health promotion in communities of color, ecological momentary assessment.
E-Mail: catleyd@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-1073
Clinical Ph.D. and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Faculty
Professor & Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Cognitive Psychophysiology Research Group
Research Interests: Physiological measures of attention and emotion, attentional function and dysfunction, aging and psychopathology
E-Mail: filiond@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-1061
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Research Interests: Community psychology; program evaluation;
children & youth development; childrearing approaches;
academic-service learning
E-mail: gensheimerl@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-1065
Clinical Ph.D. Program Faculty
Professor
HIV/AIDS Research Group
MOTIV8 - KC Adherence Project
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS, adjustment to chronic/terminal disease, adherence to medical regime, primary and secondary prevention in HIV and substance use/abuse, health promotion in communities of color, protective factors (e.g., autonomous regulation, spirituality, self-efficacy) in health decision making.
E-mail: goggink@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-1059
Clinical Ph.D. and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Faculty
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Behavioral and physiological investigation of normal and abnormal multi-sensory integration; effects of attention, aging, stroke, cognitive dysfunction, and psychopathology on perception.
E-mail: lovelacec@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-1067
Clinical Ph.D. Program Faculty
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Obesity, Night Eating Syndrome, Eating Disorders and Body Image.
E-mail: lundgrenj@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-5384
Clinical Ph.D. and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Faculty
Professor and
Department of Psychology Chair
Research Interests: My interests include achievement motivation and emotional/social development among children and adolescents, as well as contextual influence on these processes (e.g. microinfluences such as parents, peer and teachers and macro-contextual effects, such as gender, ethnicity and social class).
E-mail: murdockt@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-2488
Clinical Ph.D. Program Faculty
Assistant Professor
Co-Director of Clinical Training
Research Interests: Serious mental illness, disability and rehabilitation, neurocognition and community outcomes for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, community-based participatory research
E-mail: rempferm@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-8850
Clinical Ph.D. Program Faculty
Assistant Professor
Director of Psycho-Oncology Cancer Institute, St. Luke's Hospital
Research Interests: Cancer/psycho-oncology, particularly coping, adjustment, and quality of life of cancer patients and significant others, cognitive effects of cancer treatments, and psychological interventions for cancer patients and significant others; caregiver stress; pain.
E-mail: shermanma@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235-5415
Clinical Ph.D. and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Faculty
Associate Professor
Director of IPh.D. - Psychology Discipline - Program
Director of MA in Psychology Program
Research Interests: Health promotion, initiation and maintenance of health-related behaviors, psychological factors affecting medical conditions, illness behavior and health care decision-making, ethical issues in psychology (Ph.D., Auburn University)
E-mail: terrel@umkc.edu
Phone: (816) 235.1066
