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Roles & Affiliations: Dana Cavallo is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, affiliated with the Connecticut Mental Health Center and the Division of Addictions Psychiatry. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and School Psychology (Hofstra University, 2003) and an M.A. in Applied Psychology (Fairfield University, 1992). She has been at Yale since 1995, starting as a research assistant and advancing to full-time faculty.
Education & Research Interests: Her research focuses on adolescent and adult addiction, particularly tobacco cessation, marijuana prevention, and behavioral therapies for chronic pain. She leads community-based interventions targeting youth tobacco use and alcohol lab paradigms. Key areas include developing CBT interventions for spinal pain and e-cigarette cessation programs. She collaborates with researchers like Grace Kong, Meghan Morean, and Patricia Simon on studies addressing youth substance use.
Teaching & Clinical Work: She teaches medical residents at the New Haven Primary Care Consortium and supervises CBT and Motivational Interviewing (MI) in clinical and research settings. As a behavioral health specialist at the YNHH Spine Center, she integrates behavioral therapy into chronic pain management.
Research & Grants: She leads a longitudinal study on cannabis effects on neurodevelopment in adolescents and young adults (HIC ID 200002454). Recent grants include NIH-funded work on youth e-cigarette interventions. Her lab, Tobacco Research in Youth (TRY), focuses on translational studies to reduce substance use.
Labs & Teams: Active in the TRY Lab and collaborates with the Psychotherapy Development Center. Her work bridges clinical practice, education, and public health policy to address addiction and youth substance use.