Biography
Golfo Tzilos Wernette, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Family Medicine. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist at the Ypsilanti Health Center where she provides short-term psychological intervention to adults in the community seeking primary care services. She received a B.S. in Biopsychology and Cognitive Science from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University, where she was also a research faculty member.
Her clinical research interests include technology-delivered approaches for health promotion and the reduction of health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol/drug use, STIs/HIV risk behaviors) among vulnerable populations. Her current NIH-funded work is focused on screening and brief motivational interventions that target these health risks in pregnant/perinatal women and in emerging adults.
Areas of Interest
- Women’s health
- Emerging adults
- Prevention and treatment of substance use disorders
- Motivational interviewing
- Technology-delivered, brief interventions for health promotion and risk reduction.
- Reducing health risk behaviors among emerging adults and women.
- Preventive interventions targeting alcohol/drug use, HIV/STI risk, and intimate partner violence in vulnerable groups.
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Credentials
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
- Clinical Psychology Internship, Brown University
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Wayne State University
- M.A., Psychology, Boston University
- B.S., Biopsychology and Cognitive Science, University of Michigan
