Please join the Division of General Medical Disciplines and Stanford Cardiovascular Institute in welcoming faculty candidate George Slavich.

Slavich will present: “An Integrative Multi-Level Approach for Advancing the Science of Stress and Health”
About George Slavich, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

Dr. Slavich is a leading expert in the conceptualization and assessment of life stress, and an expert in psychological and biological mechanisms linking stress with certain disease conditions, especially depression, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer. He developed the first online system for assessing lifetime stress exposure; formulated the first fully integrated, multi-level theory of depression; elucidated the neural mechanisms underlying inflammatory reactivity to social stress; and is helping pioneer a new field of research, called human social genomics. In addition to these basic research efforts, he is deeply devoted to teaching and mentoring and to developing groups that promote student development. Early in his career, for example, he founded the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Western Psychological Association Student Council, and Society of Clinical Psychology’s Section on Graduate Students and Early Career Psychologists. More recently, he has characterized a new approach to classroom instruction, called transformational teaching, and written more than 15 articles on professional development issues in science. He has received fifteen major awards for these contributions since 2009, including the Neal E. Miller New Investigator Award from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, Herbert Weiner Early Career Award from the American Psychosomatic Society, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Early Career Research Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology from the Society of Clinical Psychology, and Raymond D. Fowler Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Professional Development of Graduate Students from the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Slavich completed undergraduate and graduate coursework in psychology and communication at Stanford University, and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. After graduate school, he was a clinical psychology intern at McLean Hospital and a clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He subsequently completed three years of postdoctoral training in psychoneuroimmunology, first as an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Health Psychology Program at UCSF and then as an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. He is presently an associate professor and Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, and a Research Scientist at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, where he directs the UCLA Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research.