William Gerin received his BA in Psychology from Stanislaus State College in Turlock, California, in1979, where nbsp;hisnbsp;specialtynbsp;wasnbsp;innbsp;operant andnbsp;classicalnbsp;conditioning avoidancemodels nbsp;in nbsp;animals. nbsp;He nbsp;then became interested nbsp;in studyingthe role of human interactions in emotional regulation and received his PhD in Social Psychology nbsp;from nbsp;Columbia Universitynbsp;in 1984 nbsp;under nbsp;the mentorship of StanleySchachter. nbsp;In1985, nbsp;henbsp;undertook an nbsp;NIH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship nbsp;in cardiovascular epidemiologynbsp;atnbsp;the CornellUniversity Medical Center, where he studied with ThomasPickering. Hethen went… on to Mount Sinai Hospital, and then (back to) Columbia University,until 2007.nbsp; He has now moved his laboratoryto Department of Biobehavioral Health at the Pennsylvania State University, nbsp;where nbsp;he nbsp;Professor of Biobeahvioral Health,and is nbsp;the nbsp;director of the Experimental Cardiovascular Psychophysiology Laboratory. nbsp;His current research areas nbsp;includethe examination of acute biologicalresponses to stress and negative emotionality, including blood pressure, heartrate variability, cortisol, endothelial function, and inflammatorymarkers.nbsp; His other areas of studyinclude the role of emotional regulation inthe development of hypertension andnbsp;coronary heart nbsp;disease; behavioral interventions to improve nbsp;medication adherence nbsp;in culturally nbsp;diverse patient nbsp;populations; health disparities in cardiovascular disease, andnbsp; the role of psychosocialnbsp;factorsnbsp;in cardiovascular disease.nbsp;
Christine H. Kapelewski Kinkade earned her BS in Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2006 and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Pennsylvania State University in 2011. nbsp;After graduating, she went to work at the University of California, Berkeley for two years as a Research Compliance Analyst. nbsp;Chrissy is now at the University of California, Davis where she is a Clinical Trials Analyst for the Veterinary Center for Clinical Trials. nbsp;