Faculty & Staff
Leadership Team
Lee M. Ritterband, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Center for Behavioral Health & Technology
Lee Ritterband is the Jean and Ronald Butcher Eminent Scholars Professor at the UVA SOM. Continuously grant funded since 1998, Dr. Ritterband is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and a past editor of the journals Health Psychology and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Dr. Ritterband was selected as the 2019 UVA Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year.
Research Interests:
◊ development and testing of behaviorally-based digital health interventions
◊ areas of particular focus include sleep and cancer
Karen S. Ingersoll, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Karen Ingersoll is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and a Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist. As a clinician, she provides patient care weekly at UVA’s Ryan White clinic. Her clinical skills include Motivational Interviewing (MI), and with colleagues, she has adapted MI for group therapy and couples.
Research Interests:
◊ motivating people to adopt healthy behaviors despite experiencing stigmatized health problems such as HIV and alcohol use disorders.
Philip I. Chow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phil Chow uses mobile technology to monitor and intervene in mental health outcomes. He often uses intensive longitudinal and study optimization research designs. He has particular interest in developing personalized and adaptive interventions that deliver targeted interventions at specific moments based on an individual’s needs. Dr. Chow also has expertise in theory and assessment of emotions and personality traits.
Research Interests:
◊ the use of mobile technology in monitoring and alleviating distress for various health issues
Kelly M. Shaffer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Kelly Shaffer is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in psychooncology. The goal of her research is to modernize and expand psychosocial care delivery to medically ill individuals and their families through scalable and effective technology-based interventions.
Research Interests:
◊ developing efficient and personalized digital health programs
◊ increasing female cancer survivors’ access to evidence-based sexual healthcare
◊ increasing family caregivers’ access to psychosocial and behavioral interventions
Meghan K. Mattos, Ph.D., RN
Assistant Professor
Meghan Mattos is a nurse scientist with research interests in gerontology, cognitive health, and health equity. She is committed to increasing the accessibility of behavioral interventions and care to underserved and aging communities.
Research Interests:
◊ prevention and treatment of cognitive impairment in older adults
◊ use of technology in preventive health
Kara P. Wiseman, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor
Kara Wiseman has a particular interest in leveraging technology to develop scalable interventions for cancer prevention and control and the use of research methods to create increasingly effective behavior change interventions. An additional area of interest is cancer survivorship research focused on the health behaviors of cancer survivors.
Research Interests:
◊ behaviors relevant to cancer prevention and control, including smoking cessation, alcohol use, diet, physical activity, and cancer screening
Faculty & Staff
Administration
Cindy Orange M.Ed, Administrative Director
Laurie Bennett, Administrative Generalist
Gail Billingsley, Fiscal and Operations Specialist
Research Support
Christina Frederick, Research Coordinator
Kirsten MacDonnell, Research Coordinator
Jillian Glazer, Research Coordinator
Mai Kadi, International Visiting Scholar
Engineering
Ian Terrell, Senior Software Engineer
Nicole Le, Senior Software Engineer
Gabe Heath, Senior Software Engineer
Positive Links
Ava Lena D. Waldman, MHS/CCRP/PMP, PL Program Manager
Ben Elliott, PL Telehealth and Outreach Coordinator
Helen Reed, MPH, PL Quality Improvement & Implementation Coordinator
Silvia Park, Research Coordinator
Pravalika Dontheneni, Developer
Jason Schwendinger, Lead Developer
Tianyi (Freddie) Jin, Developer
Alex Zolin, Systems Engineer
Helen Erwin, PL Implementation, Clinic Based
Student Research Assts & Volunteers
Past CBHT Staff and Student Interns
CBHT Multidisciplinary Team
