Dr.
George Slavich is an expert on the basic science, assessment, and
management of life stress. He conducts research on how stress affects
mental and physical health, and provides expert stress consultation
and management services to major public and private organizations. He
is a standing member on several scientific working groups at the
National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Aging, and has
also helped many large companies and universities design and implement
brief social-psychological stress intervention programs using
sophisticated, computer-based systems.
Dr. Slavich completed undergraduate and graduate coursework in
psychology and communication at Stanford University, and received his
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. 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 and then
as an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cousins Center for
Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. Currently, he is an associate professor
and Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellow in the Department of
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, and a Research
Scientist at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology where he
directs the UCLA Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research.
Additional information about his basic scientific work can be found at
www.uclastresslab.org.