Research Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
VA San Diego Healthcare System and University of California San Diego, California
Matthew Herbert, PhD, is a Research Psychologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego. Dr. Herbert's research program consists of elucidating biopsychosocial factors that underly the maintanance and severity of chronic pain and the development and evaluation of mindfulness-based treatments for chronic pain. An additional focus of his research is compassion; specifically, novel strategies for measuring compassion and the impact of contemplative compassion practice on treatment outcomes. Dr. Herbert also is a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Joint Doctoral Program at UCSD and San Diego State University.
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM ET