Danielle M. Shpigel, PhD is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in brain-behavior relationships and the application of psychological science to promote health and prevent illness. Dr. Shpigel has contributed to research at the Brain Injury Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Translational Research Institute for Pain in Later Life at Weill Cornell Medicine. During her doctoral graduate studies, she was a member of research labs examining eating behaviors and smoking and nicotine dependence at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. Dr. Shpigel also serves as Adjunct Faculty at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development where she teaches graduate students within the Department of Applied Psychology. Her clinical work and research has focused, in large part, on psychological factors that impact individuals’ physical and cognitive health, including their health behaviors and ability to manage chronic medical conditions. Providing services to populations that experience health disparities, have multiple psychosocial vulnerabilities to developing medical conditions, and demonstrate adverse ways of coping with these vulnerabilities (e.g., smoking, binge eating, opioid abuse) has been a very rewarding part of her academic and professional career.

Andrea H. Weinberger, PhD is a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology (Health Emphasis) PhD program at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She also has a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Weinberger’s research focuses on groups who face disparities in tobacco use and consequences including women, racial/ethnic minority individuals, and adults with psychiatric, substance use, and medical conditions. She also conducts research on the epidemiology of tobacco use and quitting and smoking cessation treatment development. Dr. Weinberger has published over 130 papers and received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. In addition to serving as the co-chair of Treatment Research Network in the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, she is a Deputy Editor at Nicotine & Tobacco Research and a Consulting Editor at Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.