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Dr. Amit Shahane, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who serves as the director of the Behavioral Medicine Center at the University of Virginia Health System. Dr. Shahane specializes in treating psychological disorders, including PTSD, that impact medical illness. His research interests include examining the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral treatments for insomnia, as well as healthcare utilization research, such as the effect of HIV stigma.

UVA's Behavioral Medicine Center diagnoses, treats and prevents medical problems either caused or aggravated by lifestyle or stress, including:
鈥�	Depression and anxiety
鈥�	Migraine and tension headaches
鈥�	Nervous stomach and irritable bowel syndrome
鈥�	Sleep problems
鈥�	Eating disorders


Listen to Shahane discuss sleep problems:
http://wina.com/morning-news/dr-amit-shahane-live-well/

Shahane discusses PTSD:
http://www.newsplex.com/content/news/Fourth-of-July-fireworks-potential-PTSD-trigger-for-area-veterans-385267411.html

Julia Hormesis is a clinical and health psychologist and direct the Health Behaviors Laboratory at the University at Albany. The primary areas of focus of research in the lab are as follows:

The psychology of human food choice behavior - pathological and non-pathological aspects of eating behavior, including eating disorders, obesity, food addiction, food cravings (in particular in pregnancy, the perimenstrum, and the migraine prodrome), and food avoidance (in particular of meat and other animal products). 
Interventions targeting diet, nutrition, and weight

Other health-promoting and health-compromising behaviors related to food intake and body weight (e.g., exercise)
Non-substance/ behavioral addictions (e.g., to the Internet, social media, video gaming)
The status of women in academia and ways to promote the successful retention of women in academic careers

Clinical interests include eating disorders and obesity, addiction, and psychosocial adjustment to living with chronic illness.

 
, MD, is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the  (DCAPBS) at  (CHOP). She specializes in treating children from underserved urban communities and works with the entire family or support system to improve the lives of children and adolescents.
Her extensive expertise includes pediatric mood and anxiety disorders, ethnically diverse children, health services research, psychiatric aspects of chronic medical illness, psychopharmacology, medical and psychiatric conditions, adolescent medicine, neuroimmunology and mood disorders, eating disorders, psychosomatic disorders, and suicide prevention.
Benton is dedicated to eliminating disparities among minority and underserved populations and developing leadership for a diverse child psychiatry workforce with a mission to prepare the next generation of diverse physician leaders. She also creates partnerships between communities and academic centers.
Benton is also the Site Director for CHOP’s  and the . Her research focuses primarily on pediatric mood and anxiety disorders, sickle cell disease and psychiatric conditions, HIV and psychiatric conditions, neuroimmunology and mood disorders, health services research, eating disorders, and ethnically diverse children.
She serves as President of the  (AACAP) and is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the .
She has received numerous honors throughout her career. Recent awards include the Humanitarian Award from the , the Shelley Leaphart-Williams Community Outreach Award from the , the McGavin Award (Agnes Purcell) for Prevention, the Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry from the , the Council on Concerns of Women Physicians (CCWP) Service Award from the  (NMA), the David M. Ellis, M.D., Lifetime Achievement Award and the Philadelphia Business Journal .