Dr. Slavich is an assistant professor and Society in Science — Branco Weiss Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He is also a Research Scientist at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, where he directs the UCLA Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research (www.uclastresslab.org). He completed undergraduate and graduate coursework in psychology and communication at Stanford University, working with Dr. Ian Gotlib, and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon, working with Dr. Scott Monroe. After graduate school, he was a clinical psychology intern at McLean Hospital and a clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He subsequently completed three years of postdoctoral training in psychoneuroimmunology, first as an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Health Psychology Program at UCSF, where he worked with Drs. Margaret Kemeny and Elissa Epel, and then as an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA, where he worked with Drs. Naomi Eisenberger, Steve Cole, Connie Hammen, and Shelley Taylor. Dr. Slavich's research examines how adverse experiences such as social rejection affect psychological and physical health. He has published widely on these topics, and has provided expert consultation services to a variety of groups including the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Aging. In addition to research, Dr. Slavich is deeply devoted to teaching and mentoring, and to developing groups and forums that promote student development. For example, early in his career he founded the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference and Western Psychological Association Student Council, and co-founded the Society of Clinical Psychology's Section on Graduate Students and Early Career Psychologists. He has received several awards for these contributions including the Neal E. Miller New Investigator Award from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology from the Society of Clinical Psychology, and the Raymond D. Fowler Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Professional Development of Graduate Students from the American Psychological Association among others.