UCLA GAMBLING STUDIES PROGRAM (UGSP) - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Program Coordinator

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Research Psychologist

Reid, R. C. Bramen, J., Anderson, A., & Cohen, M. (2014). Mindfulness, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and stress proneness in a sample of hypersexual patients. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 70(4), 313-321. Dr. Rory Reid received his Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Utah and his doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from Brigham Young University with a dual emphasis in Neuropsychology and Marriage and Family Therapy. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Reid pursued post-doctoral education and training in clinical research through Harvard Medical School's Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program. Dr. Reid is a licensed therapist (Utah Licensure) and over the years has conducted individual, group, and couples therapy with hundreds of patients seeking help for issues related to mental health problems. Dr. Reid has expertise in treatment for hypersexual behavior, pornography problems, gambling disorders, and adult ADHD. He has received specialized training in Emotion Focused Therapy, marriage and family therapy, neuropsychological assessment, and neurofeedback. Dr. Reid is involved in academic research and mentoring students at UCLA and serves on several editorial boards for scientific journals. He has published articles and research on hypersexual behavior and pathological gambling in many notable journals and his work has been featured in press outlets such as the New York Times and TIME magazine, as well as TV specials aired on ABC, CBS, and Fox News. Dr. Reid has affiliations, associations, or memberships with various organizations in the mental health field including the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health, and the National Council on Problem Gambling. Dr. Reid has trained and educated mental health professionals, industry specialists, government organizations, and lay audiences on mental health issues around the world in such places such as England, Budapest, South Africa, Holland, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Russia, the Bahamas, and throughout the United States.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Research Manager

Dr. Hall is a research manager at the UCLA Gambling Studies Program. She has worked on projects investigating addiction treatment since 1994. She is the first author of Staying in Touch: A Fieldwork Manual of Tracking Procedures, 3rd Edition and has provided training throughout the U.S. on follow-up techniques with hard-to-reach populations. She has published articles on addiction treatment for women, and on addiction treatment implementation, contingency management, and medication-assisted treatment for criminal justice populations. Dr. Hall has also served as a mentor for Fogarty Scholars and student researchers. Her current research at GSP involves gambling treatment retention and outcomes.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Research & Follow - Up Coordinator

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Program Researcher
• Research Psychologist

Dr. Campos is a program researcher at the UCLA Gambling Studies Program and a licensed clinical psychologist. He is also a member of NIDA's National Hispanic Science Network. He has worked in addictions research since 1999. He has published articles on acculturation, substance abuse problem risk, and mental health need among Hispanics in California's CalWORKs program in addition to co-authoring articles on gambling problems. His current work, which involves a secondary analysis of California's Problem Gambling Prevalence Survey data, focuses on the relationship between acculturation and gambling-related attitudes, behavior, problems, and treatment in the Hispanic community. Dr. Campos began working at the UGSP during his postdoctoral appointment in 2007.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Program Manager

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• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Certified Psychiatrist
• Program Co - Director

Dr. Rosenthal is a board certified psychiatrist and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is on the faculty of the New Center for Psychoanalysis and maintains a private practice in West Los Angeles. Dr. Richard Rosenthal treats problem gamblers in his office in Beverly Hills. His clinical services are an important component of the UGSP treatment services. Dr. Rosenthal provides consultations, diagnostic assessments and individual and family therapy.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience
• Program Co - Director

Timothy W. Fong MD Dr. Fong is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. Dr. Fong completed his undergraduate and medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago. He then came to UCLA and finished his residency in adult general psychiatry in 2002 and was the first accredited addiction psychiatry fellow at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (2002-2004). Currently, he is the co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program. The purpose of this program is to examine the underlying causes and course of problem and pathological gambling and to develop effective, evidence-based treatments. He is also the director of the UCLA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, a ACGME-accredited training program that focused on providing leading edge training in addiction psychiatry.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Faculty & Staff
• Research Statistician