Director of Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program and Clinical Associate Professor
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicineDepression and Anxiety, Empathy, Gratitude, Job Satisfaction, kindness, Meditation, Mindfulness, positive parenting, Self Care, Stress Management, Work-Life Balance
Scott Glassman, PsyD, is a nationally recognized expert in positive psychology, health behavior change, and motivation, as well as a licensed psychologist and author of A Happier You: A Seven-Week Program to Transform Negative Thinking into Positivity and Resilience. He directs the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and has received numerous grants for developing patient-centered healthy lifestyle interventions. His seven-week wellness program, A Happier You ®, has been featured on SiriusXM and NPR. He is also in the process of adapting the program for youth athletes. Dr. Glassman is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and has been a speaker and trainer at many national and regional organizations, including the American Psychological Association, the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. He contributes to Psychology Today and the health section of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Glassman has been interviewed and/or cited by Forbes, AARP, Prevention Magazine, Well+Good, The Hill, KATU-TV Portland, NBC10 Philadelphia, CBS3 Philadelphia, Academic Minute, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other print and online outlets.
Adulthood, career readiness, College Students, Disabilities, Disability, Disability and Accommodation, empathic skills, Empathy, Quality of Life (QOL)
has over two decades of educational and professional experience serving college students with disabilities.
Sears is the director of Beckwith Residential Support Services and the assistant director of academic services with the at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in community health with a rehabilitation emphasis from the University of Illinois and is currently a research assistant professor of kinesiology and community health. She is a researcher at the .
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Professor of psychology
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAggression, Empathy, Neuroscience, Pain, Painkillers, Physical Pain
is a professor in the and The Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a researcher at the .
Mischkowski earned his Ph.D. in psychology at The Ohio State University and conducted postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health. He joined Illinois in 2024.
His research is located at the intersection between physical pain and social affect and behavior (e.g., empathy, aggression) through a multi-method approach, relying on social pharmacological intervention, psychophysiology and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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