About

Health & Anxiety Research Program (HARP) lab

Department of Psychological Sciences

University of Missouri, St. Louis

Kamila White, PhD, Associate Professor

LAB DIRECTOR | Dr. Kamila White is Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Dr. White received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Behavioral Medicine from Virginia Commonwealth University, and she interned at Brown University School of Medicine, Clinical Psychology Consortium. After postdoctoral fellowship, she was Research Assistant Professor at Boston University, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. She joined the Psychological Sciences faculty at University of Missouri, St. Louis in 2005.

ORCID, Publications via ORCID record

Google scholar, Publications via google scholar, Kamila White 

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FOCUS | Dr. White’s research interests are at the intersection between emotional and physical health, with a particular focus on anxiety on cardiac health. Her work has focused on fear, anxiety, and other psychological factors and cardiac outcomes. Her studies have focused on: a) mechanisms linking emotions, health outcomes, and heart disease, particularly congenital heart disease; b) relationships between adverse early life events and heart health; and c) interactions between negative emotions and known risk for heart health, to identify avenues for clinical intervention. Dr. White has a longstanding interests in treatment outcome research and anxiety disorders, and expertise in clinical trials methodology as applied to panic disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorder based on NIH-funded trials.

TEAM AND TRAINING EXPERIENCES | The HARP research lab includes graduate students and doctoral students enrolled in the clinical psychology program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, supervised by Dr. White. Trainees are advised and mentored during individual and group supervision meetings. Also, Dr. White serves on other student masters and doctoral student committees. Alongside Dr. White, students often write papers for publication, present research papers at national research conferences, and may join as student members of national committees. Dr. White is an active, standing member of the American Psychological Association, APA Division 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods), APA Division 38 (Health Psychology), and American Psychosomatic Association. She is active in Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), and has served as Coordinator for Academic and Professional Issues, as a member of the Publications Committee, and as a member of the Research Issues working group. Dr. White is also a licensed clinical psychologist and health service provider (State of Missouri).