Curriculum Vitae Stefan G. Hofmann, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vita
(Revised 1/4/12)
Stefan G. Hofmann
Work Address:Department of Psychology
BostonUniversity
648 Beacon Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA02215-2002
Tel: (617) 353-9610, Fax: (617) 353-9609
e-mail:
website:
Home Address: 101 Newburg Street
Roslindale, MA02131
Tel: (617) 325-2225
Personal Information:Birthdate: December 15, 1964
Birthplace: Bietigheim, West Germany
Nationality/Visa: Green Card (Outstanding Researcher and Professor category)
Family Status: Married, two children
Education
1990 - 1993Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Psychology (magna cum laude)
Department of Psychology,
University of Marburg, Germany.
Dissertation title: A Critique on the DSM-III-R Classification of Situational Phobias: Studies on Speech Phobia and Driving Phobia. Advisors: Anke Ehlers, Ph.D. and Walton T. Roth, M.D.
1985 - 1990M.S. (Dipl.-Psych.) in Psychology (sehr gut)
Department of Psychology,
University of Marburg, Germany.
Thesis title: Scratching and Itching: An Experimental Study on the Relationship between Mood, Scratching, and Itching in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis. Advisors: Anke Ehlers, Ph.D. and Irmela Florin, Ph.D.
1985 - 1988B.S. (Abitur), Major: Psychology
Gymnasium Bietigheim and Department of Psychology
University of Marburg, Germany.
Licensure
1998Licensed Psychologist, State of Massachusetts;
License #7268.
1994Permission to Practice Psychotherapy
as a Profession in Germany.
Academic Appointments
2008 – present Professor of Psychology (tenured)
Department of Psychology, BostonUniversity.
2008-presentGuest Professor (June-August),
RadboudUniversity, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
2006Sabbatical at the University of Würzburg, Germany
2003 - 2008Associate Professor of Psychology (tenured)
Department of Psychology, BostonUniversity.
2003Tenure
1999 – 2003Assistant Professor of Psychology (tenure track)
Department of Psychology, BostonUniversity.
1996 – 1999Research Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology, BostonUniversity.
1994 - 1996Research Scientist
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders,
University at Albany, State University of New York.
1993 - 1994Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate)
Department of Psychology,
University of Dresden, Germany.
1993Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate)
Department of Psychology, Göttingen, Germany
1991 - 1993Visiting Scholar
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine and Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto, CA.
Honors and Awards
2012Award for Excellence in Contributions to CBT, Aaron T. Beck Institute for Cognitive Studies at AssumptionCollege
2011President-elect, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
2011President-elect, International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy
2011Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
2010Outstanding Service Award, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
2010Local Arrangement Chair, 6th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Since 2010Fellow, Eastern Psychological Association
2008-2010Representative-at-large, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Since 2007Board Member at Large, Academy of Cognitive Therapy
2003Beck Institute Scholar
2000Young Investigator Award, National Alliance for
Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (Essel Investigator).
1999 Young Investigator Research Award, Anxiety Disorders Association of America.
Young Investigator Award, Association for
Clinical Psychosocial Research.
1998 First Independent Research Support and Transition Award (R29), National Institute of Mental Health.
1997 Young Investigator Award, National Alliance for
Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
1993magna cum laude; Dr.rer.nat. [Ph.D.].
1991DAAD Dissertation Fellowship (German Academic Exchange Service) to conduct research at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine.
1990“sehr gut” (highest grade); Dipl.Psych. [M.S.].
Grants
Principal Investigator:
“D-Cycloserine Enhancement of Exposure in Social Phobia”NIMH; R01 MH078308 ($900,000), 9/19/2007-7/31/2011. Role: PI.
“Augmentation of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Biofeedback”American Psychological Association ($36,000), 10/1/2005-12/31/2006. Role: PI
"Modification of Respiratory Parameters as Key Element of Panic Disorder Treatment." Private donation from Russell and Beth Siegelman (myCFOFoundation) ($50,000), 3/25/2003-3/31/2004. Role: PI.
“Treatment of Social Phobia: Mediators and Moderators”
NIMH MH57326; R29, First Independent Research Support and Transition Award ($566,176), 05/01/98 - 02/28/2003. Role: PI
Minority Supplement Grant to “Treatment of Social Phobia: Mediators and Moderators,” NIMH MH 57326-02 ($30,563), 12/18/98 - 02/28/2003. Role: PI.
“CBT of First Episode Schizophrenia,” National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award ($60,000),
7/1/00--11/20/02. Role: PI.
“Treatment of Panic Disorder in Patients with Schizophrenia,”
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award ($60,000), 07/01/97 - 06/30/99. Role: PI.
Other
“The Efficaty of Org25935 for Augmenting CBT of Panic Disorder.”
Organon (Schering-Plough) ($178,200), 10/01/08-12/31/09 (PI: (Michael Otto, Ph.D.). Role: Co-Investigator.
“Exposure, D-cycloserine enhancement, and genetic modulations in Panic Disorder”NIMH; R01 MH081116 ($1,206564), 4/24/2008-3/31/2013 (PI: Michael Otto, Ph.D). Role: Co-investigator.
“Attention retraining for social anxiety disorder: An fMRI study” (PI: Alice T. Sawyer). NIMH F31 MH091914-01 ($32,912), 08/10-09/13. Award. Role: Mentor.
“The role of glutamate transporter in AMPA receptor localization” (PI: Hengye Man). NARSAD Young Investigator Award. Role: Sponsor/Mentor.
“Virtual reality exposure therapy for the treatment of social phobias” (PI: Page Anderson). NIMH R42 MH 60506 ($660,335), 09/03-09/05. Role: Consultant.
“A Placebo-Controlled Trial of D-Cycloserine and Exposure Therapy for Combat-PTSD” (PI: Brett Litz). Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Merit Award ($516,480), 10/1/2006-9/30/2009 (5% effort). Role: Co-investigator.
“D-Cycloserine to Enhance Extinction Cues” (PI: James Mackillop). NIMH R21AA017696. Role: Consultant.
Clinical Appointments
2008 - presentDirector
Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory (PERL)
1999 - presentDirector
Social Anxiety Program at BostonUniversity
1996 - 1999Assistant Director
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders
at BostonUniversity.
1994 - 1996Research Scientist
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders,
University at Albany, StateUniversity of New York.
Professional Appointments, Offices, and Board Memberships
2011President-elect, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
2011President-elect, InternationalAssociation for Cognitive Psychotherapies
2008-2010Representative-at-large, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Since 2008Scientific Advisory Board,
Anxiety Disorder Association of America
Since 2007Board Member, Academy of Cognitive Therapy
Since 2007Member of Data and Safety Monitoring Board of an NIMH multicenter treatment trial, entitled Pharmacotherapy Relapse Prevention in BDD (PIs: Sabine Wilhelm and Katherine Phillips).
2003-2005President, Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy
Consultant
Since 2008Occasional consultant on behalf of the Gerson Lehrman Group
Since 2007Pharmaceutical consultant for Schering-Plough/Organon
Professional Affiliations
Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Founding Fellow)
American Board of Mental Health Specialists, Board member
American Psychological Association
Association of Psychological Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy
Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (Section III of Division 12 of the APA)
Society of Clinical Psychology
Editorships
Beginning 2012Editor, Cognitive Therapy and Research
2011Guest Co-Editor,Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior(Cognitive enhancers for the treatments of neuropsychiatric disorders: Clinical and preclinical investigations)
2010Guest Editor,Anxiety, Stress and Coping (Advances in the research of social anxiety and its disorder)
Since 2010Associate Editor, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Since2010Consulting Editor, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training
2007-2010Associate Editor, International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
2006-2010Consulting Editor, International Journal of Psychology
2003-2010Associate Editor, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
2005-2008Editor, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
Editorial Board Member:
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: 2000 – present
Behaviour Research and Therapy: 2000 – present
Behavior Therapy: 2006- present
Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal: 2005 - present
BMC Psychiatry: 2011-present
Clinical Adit: 2009-present
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: 2010-present
Depression and Anxiety: 2010-present
Journal of Anxiety Disorders: 2000 – present
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: 2012-present
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology: 2008-2010
Psychology Research and Behaviour Management: 2008 – 2010
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training: 2010-present
Revista de Psicopatologia y Psicologia Clinica: 2006 – present.
The Open Psychiatry Journal: 2008 – present.
Past Editorial Board Member:
Clinical Psychology Review: 2009-2011
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice: 2000 – 2002
Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2001 – 2004
Other (ad-hoc) Journal reviews:
Archives of General Psychiatry, Behavior Therapy, Biological Psychiatry, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Emotion Review, Health Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Journal of Personality Disorder, Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychophysiology, The Lancet
Grant Reviews
2011Member of NIMH review panel for RFA MH-12-050 R21/R33 (November, 2011)
2009NIMH Special Emphasis Panel: Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science, member
Clinical Trials review panel of the joint BMFT/DFG program, member
Member of the Review Panel “Clinical Trials” (joint program of the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education and the German Research Foundation (DFG), (September 7th-8th, 2009)
2008External reviewer for the German Ministry of Education and Research/German Research Foundation (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (December 9, 2008).
Ad-hoc reviewer of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Performance Reviews of 2002 Non-Formula Final Review, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (April 24, 2008).
NIMH Special Emphasis Panel: Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science, member
2007NIMH National Research Science Award, Individual Fellowships, ad hoc reviewer
2007 Ad-hoc reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation.
2006NIMH Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (B-Start), ad-hoc reviewer
National Health Service (U.K.), ad hoc reviewer
2005Ad-hoc reviewer of the NIMH Interventions Research
2001Reviewer for a grant of the Wellcome Trust, London, U.K.
2001Chairman of the workgroup “Technology and Behavioral Sciences” as part of the workshop “German Scientists in the USA” in Palo Alto, CA (1/18/01-1/20/01). Sponsored by the German Ministry for Education and Research and the Center for Research on Innovation and Society.
2000Reviewer for a grant of the Wellcome Trust, London, U.K.
1996Reviewer for a grant of the “Large Project Intramural Grant Program” of AlleghenyUniversity of the Health Sciences
Promotion/Tenure Reviewer
2011WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, Department of Psychology (Associate Professor with tenure)
2011Northern IllinoisUniversity, Department Psychology (Full Professor)
2011IndianaUniversitySchool of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry (Associate Professor)
2010Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev, Israel, Department of Psychology (Full Professor)
2010OhioStateUniversity (Associate Professor)
2009ColumbiaUniversity, Department of Psychiatry (Full Professor)
2009University Albany, SUNY, Department of Psychology (Associate Professor with tenure)
2009HarvardMedicalSchool, Department of Psychiatry (Associate Professor)
2008TulaneUniversity, Department of Psychology(Associate Professor with tenure)
2007Freie Universität Berlin, Psychologie (Habilitation von Frau Dr. Fehm)
2007NorthernIllinoisUniversity, Department Psychology (Associate Professor with tenure)
2005University of Cincinnati, Department of Psychology (Associate Professor with tenure)
2004University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Psychiatry (Associate Professor with tenure)
2004University of Vermont (Associate Professor with tenure)
2004HarvardMedicalSchool, Department of Psychiatry (Associate Professor)
Services To Profession
2012ADAA Scientific Council Member Selection Committee
2009-2010Local arrangement chair and congress co-organizer,
World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies,
Boston, MA held in June 2-5, 2010
2008-2010Advisor to the DSM-V Development Process (Social Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, and Panic Disorder);
Member, DSM-V Anxiety Disorders Sub-Work Group
Reviewer of the 2009 Career Development Travel Awards for the Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Ad hoc reviewer for PAR “Building Translational Research and Integrated Behavioral Science” (first reviewer).
2003Program committee member, Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.
1998Member of the panel of evaluators for “Current Drugs”
1996 - 2005Research Consultant for the GrodenCenter, Providence, RI
(inpatient clinic for individuals with autism).
Services To BostonUniversity
Since 2001Chair, Academic Conduct Committee
2010Member, Developmental Science Search Committee
2000-2010Advisor of Premedical Students
2000-2002Member of the Institutional Review Board (Charles River Campus)
1999-2001Chair, Clinical Colloquium Series
Departmental and University Committees
2010-2011Member, Developmental Psychology Faculty Search Committee
Since 2006Chairman, Academic Conduct Committee
Since 2006Advisor for premedical students
2000-2002 Board Member, Charles River Campus Institutional Review Board
1999-2002Board Member, Academic Conduct Committee
1999-2002Chair of the Clinical Colloquium Series
Teaching
Spring, 1998Psychosocial Interventions and Research (graduate seminar, 5 students).
Summer, 1998Dissertation Workshop (graduate seminar, 7 students)
Fall, 1999General Psychology (lecture, 83 students)
Spring, 2000 Empirically-Supported Treatments of Psychological
Disorders (graduate seminar, 17 students)
Fall, 2000General Psychology (lecture, 74 students)
Spring, 2001Empirically-Supported Treatments of Psychological
Disorders (graduate seminar, 15 students)
Fall, 2001General Psychology (lecture, 148 students)
Spring, 2002Empirically-Supported Treatments of Psychological
Disorders (graduate seminar, 17 students),
Topics in Clinical Psychology (lecture, 43 students)
Fall, 2002General Psychology (lecture, 150 students),
Topics in Clinical Psychology (lecture, 24 students)
Spring, 2003Empirically-Supported Treatments of Psychological
Disorders (graduate seminar, 24 students),
Topics in Clinical Psychology (lecture, 20 students)
Fall, 2003General Psychology (lecture, 153 students), Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 10 students)
Spring, 2004General Psychology (lecture, 161 students),Empirically-Supported Treatments of Psychological Disorders (graduate seminar, 21 students)
Summer, 2004General Psychology (lecture, 29 students).
Fall, 2004General Psychology (lecture, 151 students), Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 15 students)
Spring, 2005General Psychology (lecture, 102 students),Empirically- Supported Treatments of Psychological Disorders (graduate seminar, 18 students)
Fall, 2005General Psychology (lecture, 204 students), Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 9 students)
Spring, 2006Sabbatical
Fall, 2006General Psychology (lecture, 204 students), Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 10 students)
Spring, 2007General Psychology (lecture, 100 students), Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 17 students)
Fall, 2007General Psychology (lecture, 201 students).
Spring, 2008Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 10 students)
Fall, 2008General Psychology (lecture, 200 students).
Spring, 2009Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 4 students)
Fall, 2009General Psychology (lecture, 200 students).
Spring, 2010Empirically Supported Treatments of Psychological Disorders (graduate seminar, 18 students)
Fall, 2010General Psychology (lecture, 200 students).
Spring, 2011Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, and Shyness (graduate seminar, 10 students)
Ph.D. Supervision
Jessica Goldstein, 1998: Resiliency in survivors of sexual abuse (chair).
Karestan Koenen, 1999: The comorbidity of PTSD and antisocial personality disorder: An epidemiological and genetic study (chair).
Cassandra Lehman, 2000: Effects of alcohol consumption on laboratory-induced panic in patients with panic disorder: The role of alcohol outcome expectancy.
Jeffrey Wincze, 2001: The role of under-inclusion in the etiology of compulsive hoarding behavior.
Rebecca Harley, 2001: A twin study on schizotypy: The psychosis-proneness scales and its correlates.
Amy K. Bach, 2002: The enhancing effects of manualized treatment for erectile dysfunction among men using Sildenafil: A preliminary investigation (third reader).
Monica Strauss, 2002.A cognitive neuroscience study of stress and motivatio (third reader)
Robb O. Stanley, 2002Emotional processes and cortical localization in panic disorder (external evaluator for the University of Melbourne, Australia).
Laura Campbell, 2003.The relevance of emotion regulatory processes to anxiety and mood disorders (chair).
Brian Ostafin, 2003.Affective learning and alcohol consumption: Correlates of risk and causes of change (third reader).
Jason Fogler, 2004Social Anxiety and Social Support: Influence of Expressed Emotion, Perceived Criticism, and Comorbid Depression on Outcome in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (second reader).
Lissa Davis, 2004Mindfulness and affect exposure in treatment for depression(second reader)
David Moscovitch, 2005Perceived Standards in Social Phobia (first reader).
Hyo-Jin Kim, 2005Information processing bias in hoarders (first reader)
Lisa Scepkovsky, 2005Anorgasmia in women (first reader)
Jill Stoddard, 2006Development and single case experimental evaluation of a 8 –day 6-session intensive cognitive behavioral treatment for social phobia (first reader)
Dr. Lydia Fehm, 2007Soziale Phobie – Epidemiologie, cognitive Aspekte, d Bühnenangst al seine spezifische Form sozialer Ängste.External evaluator of a Habilitation for the University of Berlin.
Charles Taylor, 2007Better safe than sorry? An Examination of safety behaviour reduction interventions in social anxiety disorders. (external evaluator for the University of British Columbia, Canada).
Amy Allen, 2007Exposure to carbon dioxide enriched air for panic disorder with agoraphobia: An exploration of clinical utility (second reader).
Laura Allen, 2007Effects of emotion regulation skills on clinically relevant and irrelevant emotional cues in obsessive-compulsive disorder (fourth reader).
Lissa Davis, 2008The Effect of treatment for principal anxiety disorders on comorbid Axis I disorders (fourth reader).
Markus Wiegel, 2008Adult women who sexually abuse minors: Description and assessment instrument validation (fourth reader).
Stella Bitra, 2008The effect of affect on cognitions in social anxiety disorder (first reader).
Anke Seidel, 2009Examining multidimensional change during in-vivo exposure in panic disorder (external evaluator)
Susanne Heering, 2009Effect of Emotion Regulation Strategies on Autonomic Arousal (external evaluator, University of Hamburg)
Michael Suvak, 2009A multi-method investigation of affective dysregulation in borderline personality disorder (first reader)
Maria Steenkamp, 2010Trajectories of early adjustment to sexual assault (first reader)
Julia Langton, 2010 The role NMDA receptors in extinction and re-extinction (external evaluator, University of New South Wales)
Yael Perry, 2010A multimodal investigation of emotion regulation in schizophrenia(external evaluator, University of New South Wales)
Work for Distinction Adviser
Lisa James, 1999: Focus of attention in individuals with social
Joel Mirkin, 2000: Cross cultural anxiety and its existing nosology
Steven Ellis, 2003Social anxiety, harm avoidance, and heart rate
Neil Dion, 2004An investigation of differences in cardiac function and autonomic regulatory abnormalities in perpetrators of domestic violence in close relationships.
Seung Mi Oh, 2004Change in social anxiety behaviors after
Larissa Cucurrulo, 2004Face processing in social phobia
Andrew Camp, 2004
Tina Chou, 2009Racial discrimination and lifetime prevalence rates of mood and anxiety disorders in African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in the U.S.
Christina Zinna, 2009 Blushing, the human phenomenon, and alcohol as a mediating factor for a manifestation of social phobia
Zachary Mardoc, 2009Lifetime Treatment-Seeking amongst Americans with Mood Disorders: Results from the NCS-R.
Philippa Moore, 2010An investigation into the verbal appeasement behaviors of people with social anxiety disorder.
Directed Study Adviser
Spring 1999Richard Davis, Lisa James (work for distinction)
Fall 1999Jason Peer
Fall 2000: Beatrice Sersea, Patricia Moy, Dialma Miranda
Spring 2001: Emily Brandt, Isabel Butrymowicz
Spring 2002:Courtney Apgar, Jennifer Carey, Samir Khalidy
Fall 2003:Alexis Schmiedigen, Neil Dion (work for distinction)
Spring 2004:Alexis Schmiedigen, Neil Dion (work for distinction)
Fall 2004:Micah Brosbe, Andrew Camp (work for disctinction)
Spring 2005:Nicholas Carde, Chis-Fang Hsieh, Micah Brosbe, Andrew Camp (work for distinction)
Fall 2005:Julie Groveman
Spring 2006:Erica Pockell
Fall 2006:Brittany Remmert
Spring 2007:Allison Hartl, Kristina Korte, Kseniya Tuchinskaya
Fall 2007:Paola Chaniewics,
Spring 2008:Ruta Dimaite, Margo Gunderson, Michael Zaramba
Fall 2008:Tina Chou, Zachary Mardoc, Christina Zinna (all work for distinction)
Spring 2009:Zachary Mardoc, Christina Zinna (all work for distinction), Diana Oh
Summer 2009:Jonathan Lopez (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program)
Fall 2009Christina Barry, David Friedlander, Anjali Rastogi
Spring 2010:Cassandra Aasmundson, Alexandra Dick, Zeynep Kardicali, Marla Rowland, Christina Barry, Ashley Brown, Anjali Rastogi, Philippa Moore (work for distinction).
Publications
Books
- Hofmann, S. G. & DiBartolo, P. M. (Eds.) (2001). From social anxiety to social phobia: Multiple perspectives. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
- Hofmann, S. G. & Tompson, M. C. (Eds.) (2002). Treating chronic and severe mental disorders: A handbook of empirically supported interventions. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
- Hofmann, S. G. & Weinberger, J. (Eds.) (2007). The art and science of psychotherapy.New York, NY: Routledge.
- Hofmann S.