UCLA

Chloe Boyle
ccboyle@ucla.edu

Ms. Boyle is a sixth-year graduate student in the Health Psychology program. She is studying the influence of stress and inflammation on reward processing to better understand mechanisms underlying depression. She is also interested in hedonic capacity as a source of resilience to depression and behavioral symptoms in women with a history of breast cancer. 
Advisors: Professors Julie Bower and Annette Stanton

Emma Bright
ebright@ucla.edu

Emma Bright is a fourth year graduate student in the Health Psychology program with a minor in Quantitative Psychology. Her primary advisor is Dr. Annette Stanton and her secondary advisor is Dr. Ted Robles. Broadly, she is interested in how individuals cope with and adjust to chronic stressors, such as cancer. Her current research focuses on how psychosocial factors can impact quality of life and health behaviors for individuals and their loved ones in the context of stress.
Advisors: Professors Annette Stanton and Ted Robles

Jenna Cummings
jrcummings@ucla.edu

Ms. Cummings is a fifth-year student in Health Psychology. Her program of research integrates work on eating and alcohol use and incorporates topics such as reward, genetics, social relationships, and stress. Her broader goal is to improve health in the communities at risk.
Advisors: Professors Janet Tomiyama and Lara Ray

Laura Finch
laurafinch@ucla.edu

Ms. Finch is a sixth-year student in Health Psychology. Her research centers on understanding the biopsychosocial causes and effects of eating behavior. Her current work focuses on comfort eating, including the physiological underpinnings of this behavior, and the psychological benefits it reaps via stress reduction.
Advisors: Professors Janet Tomiyama and Julie Bower

Marcie Haydon
mhaydon@ucla.edu

Ms. Haydon is a third-year student in Health Psychology. She studies neuro-immune interactions, particularly among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. Her research examines stress and coping, factors affecting recovery from life-threatening illness, and the protective effects of positive psychological states.
Advisors: Professors Julie Bower and Annette Stanton

Lauren Hofschneider
lhofschneider@ucla.edu

Lauren Hofschneider is a first-year graduate student. She is interested in the psychosocial factors that influence eating behaviors. Her work aims to incorporate cultural perspectives and intersectionality when investigating these relationships. Advisor: Professor Janet Tomiyama

Peter Nooteboom
nooteboom@ucla.edu

Mr. Nooteboom is a second-year student in Health Psychology. He studies the effects of stress on long-term health and disease outcomes, and how the pathways between the two are influenced by social relationships.
Advisor: Professor Ted Robles

Jonah Price
jeprice@ucla.edu

Jonah Price is a third-year student in Health Psychology. He studies couples’ relationships and interactions (both positive and negative in nature) and their effects on biological systems especially psycho-immune responses.
Advisors: Professors Chris Dunkel Schetter and Ted Robles

Arielle Radin
radina02@ucla.edu

Ms. Radin is a first-year student in Health Psychology. She investigates the interplay between the immune system, the microbiome, and psychological processes and how the connections between them impact chronic disease outcomes. She is particularly interested in how these factors impact stress resilience within the context of breast cancer. 

Advisor:  Professor Julie Bower

Isabel Ramos
isabelramos@g.ucla.edu

Ms. Ramos is a fourth-year student in Health Psychology. She studies patterns of stress and other factors among women of diverse ethnicities. She examines the reasons for ethnic and racial disparities in maternal health by investigating cultural and personality factors that influence stress resilience and physical and mental health-related pregnancy outcomes.
Advisors: Professors Chris Dunkel Schetter and Annette Stanton

Angela Rodriguez
incollingorodriguez@gmail.com

Ms. Rodriguez is a fourth-year student in Health Psychology. Her research examines how biopsychosocial stressors undermine healthy eating and weight and how unhealthy eating and weight, in turn, influence stress. A major arch of her work focuses on the prevalence and consequences weight- and obesity-related stigma, and she has recently extended this interest to the context of pregnancy.
Advisors: Professors Janet Tomiyama and Chris Dunkel Schetter

Chelsea Romney
chelsearomney@ucla.edu

Ms. Romney is a third-year student in Health Psychology. Her research focuses on the impact of close relationships on physical health. She is currently studying physical intimacy between romantic partners and the effect these behaviors have on sleep and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning.
Advisors: Professors Ted Robles, Rena Repetti and Chris Dunkel Schetter

Ben Shulman
shulman@ucla.edu

Mr. Shulman is a fifth-year student in Health Psychology. He examines how people’s relationships affect their health, and the psychology of conflict and support. His current research focuses on the role of self-control and heart-rate variability in arguments between partners.
Advisors: Professors Ted Robles and Chris Dunkel Schetter