Howard A Tennen

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor

Department of Public Health Sciences

Research Area(s) of Interest:   ​

Stress, Coping & Adaptation to Chronic Illness

Dr. Tennen is the Vice-Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, and he serves on the Department’s graduate program admissions committee. In the School of Medicine, he serves as Associate Scientific Director of the UConn Alcohol Research Center, Associate Director of the UConn Masters in Clinical and Translational Research Program, and Chair of the School of Medicine’s Senior Appointments and Promotions Committee.​

Dr. Tennen is a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts. Since 1978, he has been at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry. Dr. Tennen is the Editor of Journal of Personality. His research examines stress, coping and adjustment to threatening encounters, including cognitive adaptation as a predictor of health outcomes in the face of serious illness, the daily dynamics of chronic pain, stress and alcohol use, gene-stress interactions, and the application of daily process methods in clinical trials.​

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