Faculty Profiles

Caroline Christian is a licensed psychologist and visiting assistant professor of clinical health psychology. Her research takes a community-focused approach to promoting health behavior engagement and preventing eating disorders across critical risk periods, especially the perinatal period. A growing focus of her scholarship involves training and collaborating with healthcare providers to reduce medical weight stigma, improve screening for mental health concerns, and more effectively and equitably promote health behavior engagement. She has received several awards and grants for her research, including the Academy for Eating Disorders RSH Scholarship, F31 National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship, and P.E.O. Scholar Award. In her teaching, she draws from her experiences as a researcher and clinician, integrating scholarly research, group discussion, and experiential learning activities to explore the nuanced relationships across domains of physical and mental health. Caroline majored in Psychology and Biology at the University of Louisville, before staying at the university for her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She moved to Pittsburgh for her predoctoral clinical internship at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship through the Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine T32 training program at the University of Pittsburgh. 

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