The Anxiety and Stress Lab is directed by faculty, and staffed by students, named below.

faculty

Jon D. Elhai, Ph.D. Dr. Elhai is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Toledo. He primarily conducts research on cyberpsychology and internet addictions. His previous research focus was on posttraumatic stress disorder. For more information about Dr. Elhai and his Lab, visit his personal website.
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​Sarah Francis, Ph.D. Dr. Francis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo and also serves as the Director of Clinical Training for the department's Clinical Psychology PhD program. Dr. Francis' research interests pertain broadly to child anxiety and specifically to parental influences on the development and maintenance of anxious behaviors and cognitions in children. Her current research projects focus on evaluating the construct of anxiety sensitivity in children and their parents and examining the effectiveness of universal prevention programs for childhood anxiety. For more information, see her website.
​Jason Levine, Ph.D. Dr. Levine is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toledo. Dr. Levine’s research focuses on the physiological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects of stress as it relates to anxiety, specifically generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and chronic medical medical conditions (e.g., diabetes). He often uses non-invasive measures of peripheral physiology (e.g. ECG, ICG, SCL), with an emphasis on cardiovascular functioning. For more information, visit his website.
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​Peter Mezo, Ph.D. Dr. Mezo is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo. His clinical research training and interests have centered on psychological mediators of depression, stress, and fear. In particular, his program of research has investigated how self-management and related models of self-regulation and coping may be applied to help improve the conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of depression and anxiety. For more information, see his website.
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Matthew Tull, Ph.D. Dr. Tull is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo. His program of research is focused on the role of emotion regulation in the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and a variety of impulsive and self-destructive behaviors, including substance use, risk-taking behavior, suicide, and nonsuicidal self-injury. For more information about Dr. Tull’s research, visit the Personality and Emotion Research and Treatment Laboratory's website.

Current Graduate Students

  • Pallavi Babu
  • Margaret Baer
  • Anna Barbano
  • Rachel Bond
  • Alex Buhk
  • Abigail Dempsey
  • Courtney Forbes
  • Caleb Hallauer
  • Hannah Herc 
  • Elyse Hutcheson
  • Justin Leiter-McBeth
  • Jason Liou 
  • Emily Meadows
  • ​Kelsey Pritchard
  • Emily Roemhild
  • ​Emily Rooney
  • Mackenzie Trevethan
  • Ariana Vidaña
  • Noelle Warfford