Our Team
Roybal Director
Ian Kronish, MD, MPH
- Director, Columbia Roybal Center
Dr. Kronish has expertise in intervention development and testing, particularly for medication adherence. He is the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI of several National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded studies evaluating the association of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological factors with health behaviors in survivors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events.
Associated Faculty
Talea Cornelius, PhD, MSW
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Keith Diaz, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine
Donald Edmondson, PhD, MPH
- Former Co-Director, Columbia Roybal Center
Dr. Edmondson is an expert in the experimental medicine approach to behavioral intervention development. He is PI or co-PI of multiple fear based mechanisms, behavior, and clinical outcomes in CVD patients. He is also co-PI and managing Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded Resource and Coordinating Center of the Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) program, and was scientific lead for the SOBC website.
Joseph E. Schwartz, PhD
- Lecturer in Medicine
Ari Shechter, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences
Richard P. Sloan, Ph.D.
- Nathaniel Wharton Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Advisory Board
External Advisory Board
- Jeffrey Huffman, MD, Harvard Medical School
- Lisa Marsch, PhD, Dartmouth College
- Sarah Garfinkel, PhD, University College London
- Kenneth Freedland, PhD, Washington University
- Sara Czaja, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Internal Advisory Board
- Dawn Hershman, MD, MS, Division of Oncology, CUIMC
- Peter Shapiro, MD, Department of Psychiatry, CUIMC
- Yuval Neria, PhD, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Patient & Family Stakeholders
- Cindy Marchionda, Partner/caregiver of cardiac arrest survivor
- Jasmine Wylie, Cardiac arrest survivor, Board member, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association
- Rick & Jennifer Chap, Cardiac arrest survivor & partner, Founders, BuddyCPR