Principal Investigators
W. Edward Craighead, Ph.D., ABPP, earned his PhD in Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1970. He was appointed Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University (State College) where he progressed through the academic ranks to Professor and Director of Clinical Training. In 1985, he moved to a Professorship in Duke University Psychiatry, directed a CBT program, and served as Director of Clinical Training in Psychology. After a decade at Duke, he moved to the University of Colorado-Boulder as Professor and Director of Clinical Training, and he subsequently was selected to serve as Chair of the Psychology Department
He has co-authored/edited 12 books, including a widely used graduate textbook, Psychopathology, co-edited with David Miklowitz and Linda Craighead. He helped launch and later served as Editor of Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, and he was the Editor of Behavior Therapy. He is a Past-President of: the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (now ABCT), the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, and the Society of Clinical Psychology (the Clinical Division of the American Psychological Association). From the Society of Clinical Psychology, he received the Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology and a Presidential Citation for his Lifetime Contributions to Clinical Psychology. He recently was selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.
In addition to his scholarly work and teaching, Dr. Craighead established and currently oversees a child, adolescent, and young adult clinic that each year serves approximately 1,500 patients. Together with his wife, Linda Wilcoxon Craighead, Emory Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, he established an APA accredited Child and Adolescent Internship that is fully-affiliated with Emory Psychology and trains three predoctoral interns each year. He continues to provide therapy for individuals with clinical problems, primarily Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders.
W. Edward Craighead, PhD, ABPP
Michael T. Treadway, PhD
Dr. Treadway is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist focused on understanding the molecular and circuit-level mechanisms of psychiatric symptoms related to mood, anxiety, and decision-making. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2012, and completed his clinical internship and post-doc at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. As Director of the Translational Research in Affective Disorders Laboratory (TReADLab) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, Dr. Treadway’s research employs a variety of methods, including multimodal neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MRS, and PET), behavioral paradigms, computational modeling, and clinical/personality assessment. A particular interest has been the assessment of reward motivation in psychiatric populations, for which Dr. Treadway has developed several laboratory tasks, including the Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT).
Staff Members
Samantha Betters, BS
Shiyin Liu, BS
Jessica Kubert, BA
Sarah Baldwin, BS
Amelia Shaddinger, BS
Nicole Palmer, BS
Allison LoPilato, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Assistant Director of the Child and Adolescent Mood Program. Dr. LoPilato recieved her B.A. (2011) and Ph.D. (2017) from Emory University. During her internship and postdoctoral training at Emory SOM, Dr. LoPilato specialized in child and adolescent psychology.
Dr. LoPilato's research interests include emotion regulation, stress reactivity, family environments, and mood disorders in youth. She has also co-developed a treatment manual for adolescent depression and provides clinical workshops at the national level. Dr. LoPilato is the author of several research papers and book chapters on youth mental health and treatment.
As a clinician, Dr. LoPilato specializes in evidence-based treatment for mood disorders in children and adolescents (7-18 years). She has a passion for working with youth who have difficulty regulating intense emotions and/or are experiencing their first depressive episode. Dr. LoPilato is also intensively trained in DBT-C, a family-based treatment for children (7-12 years old) with severe emotional and behavioral dysregulation. In addition to providing individual and family-based care, Dr. LoPilato also leads the Mood Regulation skills program for adolescents.
