Biography

Megan Pinkston, M.A., Ph.D. is a Clinical Health Psychologist in The Immunology Center of The Miriam Hospital and an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. She provides evidence based therapy to HIV infected patients who struggle with mental illness and substance abuse or dependence. Her research interests include the exploration and development of effective interventions for the syndemics that surround cocaine addiction, HIV infection, and mental illness. She has been providing therapy to HIV infected individuals and conducting research in HIV for over 10 years and has worked with HIV infected individuals from different regions of the US including the South, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and New England.