Teresa López-Castro, PhD

Associate Professor

The City College of New York, CUNY

Teresa López-Castro, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, an Associate
Professor in the Psychology Department of The City College of New York and
Core Faculty Member of the Health Psychology and Clinical Science Doctoral
Program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research
focuses on the substantial overlap between substance use and mental health
problems, particularly trauma-related disorders, and the development of
holistic, evidence-based models of health care for people who use drugs. Funded
by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. López-Castro leads a line of
multidisciplinary, community-engaged research to help increase access and
engagement to quality mental health care for people who use drugs.