Erik grew up in Bloomington, MN, completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas. His graduate research focused on mechanisms of and interventions targeting emotion dysregulation. Projects included an fMRI investigation of tDCS facilitated cognitive reappraisal in MDD individuals, as well as his dissertation, an empirical separation of mind wandering and perseverative cognition in the determination of affective dynamics. Erik has a passion for neuroscience both in methodology and instruction; he taught several undergraduate neuroscience courses at KU and developed the Clinical Neuroscience offering for KU’s online college. Erik concentrated his clinical training on SMI populations, providing assessment and therapeutic services in the inpatient psychiatry unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is looking forward to the internship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and EPICENTER to continue his development of core competencies necessary for SMI care in an interdisciplinary medical setting. In his free time, Erik enjoys recreational basketball, fantasy football, and Game of Thrones.
