Susan Tross, PhD
HIV Center Associate Director
Co-Director, Intervention Science Core
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Email: st130@cumc.columbia.edu
Phone: (646) 774-6942
Susan Tross, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Columbia University. Dr. Tross is Co-Director of the HIV Center's Intervention Science Core. In addition, she is Director of Psychology, Education, and Training, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center.
Since 1986, Dr. Tross has conducted several HIV intervention and substance abuse intervention research programs, and has particularly worked on community-based, peer-based, and street-outreach programs programs with drug-involved women. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a multisite project in the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network on HIV/STD safer-sex skills groups for women in methadone maintenance or psychosocial outpatient drug treatment programs.
EDUCATION
Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
BA - 1972 - American Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
EdM - 1975 - Psychology
Yeshiva University, New York, NY
PhD - 1983 - Clinical Psychology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1977-1980: Research Assistant, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, NY
1978-1980: Research Assistant, Psychiatry Service, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, NY
1980-1981: Clinical Psychology Intern, Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY
1981-1982: Clinical Psychology Fellow, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY
1982-1983: Chief Clinical Psychology Fellow, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY
1983-1984: Fellow of Psychology (in Psychiatry), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
1983-1984: Project Coordinator, Controlled Study of Psychological Adjustment in AIDS Patients, National Institute of Mental Health
1983-1986: Instructor in Psychology (in Psychiatry), Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY
1984-present: Private practice in Psychological testing and evaluation, psychotherapy, consultation and supervision, New York, NY
1984: Psychologist, New York State certification # 007872-1
1984-1986: Project Coordinator, Controlled Follow-Up of Psychological Adjustment in AIDS Patients, National Institute of Mental Health
1984-1987: Consulting Investigator, Neurological Complications of AIDS, New York State Institute
1984-1989: Clinical Asst. Psychologist, Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
1985: Founding member, AIDSFILMS, a non-profit film production company, New York, NY
1986-1988: Principal Investigator, Psychological Skills Training/Media Program to Reduce AIDS Risk Behavior, Centers For Disease Control
1986-1989: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, New York, NY
1987-1989: Co-Principal Investigator, Heterosexual Transmission of HIV, Centers For Disease Control
1989-1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NJ College of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, NJ
1989-present: Principal Investigator, Lower East Side Health Project, Centers For Disease Control
1991-1993: Principal Investigator, Affective Domain of Hands On Care, ADHOC Program, National Institute of Mental Health
1993-1996: Clinical Director/Co-Principal Investigator for Comprehensive Care Center for Addicted Women and Infants, NIDA
1993-2002: Principal Investigator, Psychosocial/Qualitative Assessment Core, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, NIMH
1993-present: Research Scientist, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
1994-2010: Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY
1996-present: Principal Investigator, Imipramine and Relapse Prevention in Depressed Methadone Patients, NIDA
2000-2008: Supervising Psychologist, Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
2002-present: Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
2003-2008 : Member, Institutional Review Board, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
2006-2009: Member, NIDA External Scientific Work Group on HIV/AIDS
2008-present: Director of Psychology, Education, and Training, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center
2010-present: Member, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, HIV and Alcohol and Other Drug Use Advisory Panel
2010-present: Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY
2010-present: Co-Investigator, Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network: Greater New York Regional Node, NYS Psychiatric Institute, New York NY
