George Slavich Receives Early Career Award

Branco Weiss Fellow George Slavich has been named recipient of the 2011 Enrico E. Jones Early Career Award for Research in Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology. The award honors the late Professor Enrico E. Jones of the University of California, Berkeley, and recognizes outstanding scientific contributions by a clinical psychologist who received his or her PhD in the past 10 years. Dr. Slavich, who is an assistant professor at UCLA, received the award for his research demonstrating how social stressors affect psychological and physical health. Dr. Slavich is a research scientist at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, and is Director of the Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research at UCLA.