Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Division of Psychology
Dr. Fuller provides psychological assessment for a number of referral questions including ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning, autism, and intellectual disability. She sees children and adolescents for therapy, including cognitive/behavioral therapy for a variety of issues. She specializes in Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, which is an individualized, skill-building intervention for children with challenging behaviors. Dr. Fuller also sees children with voiding dysfunction through the Voiding Improvement Partnership Clinic, together with providers from Pediatric Urology. She works more in-depth with some children and families with psycho-urologic issues. Her work with Pediatric Urology includes research on psychological characteristics of children with voiding dysfunction and effective treatment options.
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Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Bowers is the Clinical Director of the Eating Disorder Program, where he serves as a group and individual therapist across a continuum of care that includes inpatient, partial hospital and outpatient treatment. He is involved in the education of psychiatry residents primarily in the area of psychotherapy. He has written book chapters, review and research articles with a emphasis on treating eating disorders on an inpatient and partial hospital level and the use of Cognitive Therapy.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Caraher provides neuropsychological assessments for adults from diverse backgrounds with various neurological, complex medical, and psychiatric conditions. She also enjoys teaching and supervising students and residents. Dr. Caraher's clinical and research interests involve obesity, bariatric surgery + cognitive/emotional outcomes, cognitive decline and the aging population, and other neurological conditions.
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Lauren Garvin, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Garvin is a clinical psychologist who specializes in health psychology. She provides pre-surgical evaluations and conducts intervention work with patients pursuing bariatric and solid organ transplant surgeries. Dr. Garvin's clinical and research interests include adjustment to chronic illnesses, end of life concerns, adherence, and supporting behavioral self-management.
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Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Espe-Pfeifer directs the Child Psychology and Pediatric Neuropsychology Services within the Child Psychiatry Clinic. Her areas of clinical interest include traumatic brain injury, sports-related concussions, epilepsy, stroke, Tourette’s Disorder and Juvenile Huntington’s Disease. In addition, she specializes in neuropsychological assessment of patients with complex medical histories, including brain injuries as a result of an accident, a stroke, or an infection of the brain, and comorbid psychiatric disorders. Dr. Espe-Pfeifer also provides therapy interventions through the Outpatient Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program. Her areas of research interest include traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, neurocognitive aspects of diabetes, and Juvenile Huntington’s Disease.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Hart provides psychotherapy for those with mood and anxiety disorders.
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Hoth is a clinical neuropsychologist with expertise in aging and cognitive changes associated with chronic cardiopulmonary medical illnesses, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], heart failure, and obstructive sleep apnea. She was recently awarded a 5-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to lead a multidisciplinary team that will look at how lung and blood vessel change, which are often linked to COPD, affect brain structure and function. She also studies psychological adjustment, particularly anxiety and depression, in chronic lung disease. Click here to learn more about her research.
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Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Kopelman is a psychologist with expertise in evaluation and treatment of autism spectrum disorders as well as evaluation of challenging behaviors. He has coordinated three federally funded research projects on the use of telehealth to evaluate and treat challenging behaviors displayed by young children with autism. He is the co-director of the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital Autism Center and is currently serving as President of the Autism Society of Iowa.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Kremsreiter is a child and adolescent psychologist with a specialization in school psychology. She provides evaluations and outpatient therapy for children and adolescents. Her specialty areas include anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorders, and Tourette Syndrome. Dr. Kremsreiter also facilitates Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills groups for adolescents. Dr. Kremsreiter is certified through the Tourette Association of America and has completed advanced training for treatment of OCD through the International OCD Foundation.
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Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Moel is a licensed psychologist who provides psychotherapy services in the Women's Wellness & Counseling Service. She has worked in the area of women's mental health and reproductive mood disorders for over a decade and has a special interest in working with women who have children in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). She also has expertise in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder during pregnancy and postpartum. She is actively engaged in teaching, supervision, and research in her areas of expertise and works collaboratively with patients to help them to more successfully navigate life transitions, maintain work-life balance, decrease avoidance, and improve their relationships by exploring attachment and communication issues.
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Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Moser’s primary research interest involves finding better ways to identify people at greatest risk for vascular cognitive decline and, ultimately, finding ways to prevent or at least diminish this process. A secondary line of research involves the assessment of decision-making capacity for informed consent in various vulnerable populations, determining what factors, such as cognitive dysfunction or mental illness, are most likely to impair this capacity, and finding new ways to improve this capacity in those who are unable to make informed decisions on their own behalf.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Olufs has specialized training in behavioral pediatrics and pediatric psychology. She runs an ADHD Treatment Clinic with Dr. Carissa Gunderson and has a joint Pain Clinic with the Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care team. She conducts psychoeducational evaluations and provides interventions for children and adolescents with disruptive behaviors disorders, anxiety, and depression.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Pawlak is Director of the Women's Wellness & Counseling Service, a multidisciplinary clinic that provides mental health care to pregnant and postpartum women. Her clinical specialty areas are perinatal loss and trauma. In addition, Dr. Pawlak is the Health Psychologist for the UIHC Center for Advanced Reproductive Care, conducting third-party reproduction consultations and infertility counseling. She is also an Interpersonal Psychotherapy certified therapist, educator, and trainer.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Schoen is a licensed psychologist who provides adult outpatient psychotherapy services in the UI Behavioral Health Clinic. She has expertise in the treatment of eating disorders, complex trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder. She is actively engaged in teaching, supervision, and research in her areas of expertise. In addition, she provides individual and group psychotherapy for a wide range of adult mental health concerns. Dr. Schoen has specialized training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR).
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Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Temple is the director of psychosocial treatments at UIHC. He provides state and national training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBT) for patients with severe medical conditions. He released his first book, Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Cancer Patients: Re-Visioning the CBT Paradigm, this year. The publication applies CBT to to help cancer patients going through a wide range of experiences, from being initially diagnosed to facing end-of-life concerns. Click here to read more about his book.
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Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Troutman trains providers in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, an evidence-based practice developed to reduce disruptive behavior. She has developed a modification of PCIT called Integration of Working Models of Attachment into Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (IoWA-PCIT), which integrates findings from attachment theory research into PCIT. Click here to learn more about the PCIT program at the University of Iowa.
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Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Turvey is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of mood disorders, with a focus on the the treatment of depression. She helps clients develop more satisfying personal relationships, develop more regular meaningful activities in their lives, and identify repetitive maladaptive patterns in relationships that can deplete social support and lead to isolation and depression.
Dr. Turvey is also an active researcher and has developed an intervention to address coping with irreversible functional decline in elderly people suffering chronic lung or heart disease. She also has an active research interest in telemedicine and e-health, exploring the use of videoconferencing to improve access to care, and the use of patient portals to improve treatment of depression.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Vinquist is the co-director of the Intellectual Disability-Mental Illness program which provides interdisciplinary inpatient and outpatient care to patients with an intellectual disability, mental illness and severe challenging behaviors. The goal of the program is to identify the etiology of challenging behavior in individuals with complex psychiatric and behavior needs and develop comprehensive treatment plans. She has specialized training in assessment and intervention severe challenging behaviors which is based primarily on principles of Applied Behavior Analysis. Additional interests include Dialectal Behavior Therapy, staff training, program development, and crisis management.
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