GRADUATE PROGRAMS:
Clinical Faculty

Jennifer Harned Adams (Ph.D., University of Houston, 2003). Research Assistant Professor. Her research interests include psychological issues associated with cancer, and women’s reproductive health, including coping with infertility and post-partum depression and anxiety.

Beth Allen (Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2003). Assistant Professor.  Her research interests include the bi-directional influence between relationship functioning and health. She is particularly interested in extradyadic relationships as a risk behavior for disease transmission.

Allison Bashe (Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2000).  Director of Clinical Training.  Her interests include program development and evaluation and ethics training. 

Abbie Beacham (Ph.D., University of Louisville, 2000). Assistant Professor.

Eric Benotsch (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1998). Associate Professor.  His research interests include HIV prevention, sexuality, coping with chronic disease, and general behavioral medicine issues.

Evelinn Borrayo (Ph.D., University of North Texas, 1999). Associate Professor.

Kevin Everhart (Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2000).  Senior Instructor.  His research interests include ecological validity of community-based mental health interventions and developmental psychopathology and resilience.

Jim Grigsby (Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1980). Professor in Psychology, and in the Department of Medicine, UC Denver School of Medicine. His research interests include health psychology, cognitive neuroscience (especially executive cognitive functioning), Fragile X-related cognitive phenotypes, and the effects on cognition of cancer chemotherapy.

Mitchell Handelsman (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1981). Professor and University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar.  His research interests include professional ethics.

Kristin Kilbourn (Ph.D., University of Miami, 1996).  Assistant Professor.  Her research interests include psychosocial oncology, psychoneuroimmunology and health promotion.  Her clinical orientation is cognitive-behavioral and she is very interested in group-based interventions. In addition to her doctorate in Clinical Health Psychology, she has a master’s degree in Public Health.

Michael Zinser (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993).  Associate Professor.  His research interests include addiction (particularly nicotine addiction), behavioral medicine, psychophysiology, and underserved/minority populations.

Note:  Students take courses and conduct research with faculty from other specialty areas in psychology, and often collaborate with faculty from area colleges, universities, and hospitals.  If your research interests/experience overlap with those of a faculty member, you should contact that faculty member directly.  Please see the department's faculty and staff page for information on all psychology faculty members and their interests.