Faculty and Staff
Below you will find a directory of our Clinical Faculty. Please click on the Physician’s name for additional information.
Clinical Faculty
Child and Adolescent Clinical Faculty
Research Faculty
Tiouririne, Nassima Ait-Daoud
Addiction Medicine, Neuroscience, and Pharmacology
Clayton, Anita H.
Sexual dysfunction with psychiatric illness and treatment; Depression and anxiety disorders associated with reproductive-life events in women; Female sexual disorders.
Chow, Philip I-Fon
Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Ingersoll, Karen S.
Creating pragmatic psychological treatments for health behaviors. I use cousneling interventions such as Motivational Interviewing and digital interventions including mHealth and eHealth interventions to improve behaviors and habits, health, and overall wellness.
Kovatchev, Boris P.
Biomathematics and Statistics, Specifically Dynamic Modeling of Biologic and Behavioral Processes. Resent Work Includes: Endocrine and Diabetes Studies, ADHD, Heart Rate Variability, Translational Research, and Algorithm Development.
Murrie, Daniel
Forensic Psychology, Forensic Mental Health Evaluation (Competence, Sanity, Capital Sentencing, Violence Risk Assessment and Management). Forensic mental health service systems. Reducing bias and unreliability in assessments.
Payne, Jennifer L
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Ritterband, Lee
Development and Testing of Behaviorally-based Treatment Programs Delivered Via the Web
Shaffer, Kelly McLean
Psycho-oncology and family caregiving
Departmental Staff
Greg Benham, Chief Operation Officer
Sarah Staton, Business Manager
Laura Covert, Residency Coordinator
Kimberly McCauley, Fiscal Technician
Rebecca Hensley, Clerkship Coordinator
Stephen Furry, Assistant to the Chair
Teresa Woodson, Financial Services Specialist
Laura Chiminello, Grants Specialist
Will Slusher, Systems Manager
Shandra Gammon, Billing Specialist
Jessica Shifflett, Senior Coding Specialist
Michelle Thomas, Medical-Biller Coder
Mary Tinsley, Coding and Billing Specialist – Advanced
Nassima Ait-Daoud, MD, Clinic Director/Professor
Eva Jenkins-Mendoza, Clinical Research Manager
Tracie Kostelac, Project Manager
Beck Jacobson, MD, Clinical Research Associate
Alanna Baker, LCSW
Andrew Kostelac, Clinical Research Specialist
Tamika Braveheart, Clinical Research Nurse
Lee Ritterband PhD – Director
Research Faculty:
Karen Ingersoll Ph.D., ABPP – Professor
Phil Chow Ph.D. – Associate Professor
Kelly Shaffer Ph.D. – Associate Professor
Staff:
Kirsten MacDonnell – Clinical Research Coordinator 3
Nicole Le – Senior Software Engineer
Cindy Orange – Administrative Director
Ian Terrell – Senior Software Engineer
Gabriel Heath – Senior Software Engineer
Christina Frederick – Clinical Research Coordinator 4
Jillian Glazer – Clinical Research Coordinator 2
Jessica Smith – Research Assistant
Laurie Bennett – Administrative Generalist
Gail Billingsley – Fiscal and Operations Specialist
Positive Links:
Ava Waldman – PL Program Manager
Ben Elliott – Telehealth and Outreach Coordinator
Helen Reed – PL Statewide implementation & Support
Pravalika Donthineni – Developer
Tianyi (Freddie) Jin – Developer
Jason Schweinger – Lead developer
Alex Zolin – Systems Engineer
Anita Clayton, MD, Director
Madelyn Aman, Clinical Research Coordinator
Boris Kovatchev, Ph.D., Director and Section Head
Christian Wakeman, Data Analyst
Laura Kollar, Clinical Research Nurse
Mary Oliveri, Clinical Research Manager
Sandra Foster, Administrative Specialist
Jessica Robic, Clinical Research Coordinator
Charlotte Barnett, Research Specialist
Elaine Schertz, Software Engineer
Jennifer Pinnata, Clinical Research Coordinator
Jennifer L. Payne, MD, Director
Meeta Pangtey, MPH, Clinical Research Coordinator
Kayla Pennycuff, BS, Clinical Research Coordinator
Lauren Williamson, PhD, Clinical Research Coordinator
ILPPP Clinical Faculty
Daniel Murrie, PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences; Director, Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy
Scott Bender, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Sharon Kelley, JD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Elisha Agee, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Brett Gardner, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Lucy Guarnera, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
ILPPP Research Faculty
Lauren Kois, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Heather Zelle, JD, PhD, Associate Director of Mental Policy Research, Associate Professor of Research (UVA Department of Public Health Sciences)
Staff
Xuemei Ding, LLM, Business Manager and Grants Administrator
Camilla Beeley, Clinic Coordinator and Research Assistant
Jim Tucker, MD, Director
Lori Derr, Research Coordinator
Sue Ruddock, Senior Program Support Technician