Christopher C. Conway College of William & Mary Department of Psychology Office: Integrated Science Center 1089 Email: conway@wm.edu 540 Landrum Drive Phone: 757-221-3886 Williamsburg, VA 23188 Department: 757-221-3872 Education Ph.D. 2013 University of California, Los Angeles Clinical Psychology, minor in Quantitative Psychology M.A. 2009 University of California, Los Angeles Clinical Psychology B.S. 2007 Duke University Psychology (with distinction) and Spanish Professional Positions 2015- Assistant Professor of Psychology College of William & Mary 2015- Licensed Psychologist, State of Virginia 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Associate Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University 2013-2014 Postdoctoral Fellow Anxiety Disorders Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles Professional Affiliations Association for Psychological Science, 2007- Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 2007- Society for Research in Psychopathology, 2014- North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, 2014- American Psychological Association, 2007-2014 Division 12, Clinical Psychology, Member, 2007-; President (-Elect/Past-) 2010-2012 Division 3, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, Member, 2010- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014- Psi Chi, Psychology National Honors Society, 2007-1 - CCC
Awards Postgraduate Graduate Undergraduate National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship Association for Psychological Science Albert Bandura Research Award Association for Psychological Science Student Grant Award American Psychological Foundation Ungerleider/Zimbardo Scholarship American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award American Psychological Association Basic Psychological Science Grant Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Elsie Ramos Award UCLA Clinical Psychology Charles Nakamura Award UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship UCLA Clinical Psychology Area Chair s Prize Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society Duke University Dean Thompson Research Fellowship Grant Support 2014-2015 R01-MH039096 Postdoctoral Associate Classification of Depression and Anxiety 2013-2014 T32-MH082719 Postdoctoral Fellow Early Detection and Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders 2011-2012 T32-HG002536 Graduate Fellow Genomic Analysis and Interpretation 2011-2012 UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics Graduate Fellowship 2008-2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Long-Term Effects of Marital Relationship Quality on Adolescent Social Competence 2007-2008 NIMH National Research Service Award Training Grant Psychological Research on Schizophrenic Conditions RESEARCH Refereed Journal Articles Conway, C. C., Craske, M. G., Zinbarg, R. E., & Mineka, S. (in press). Pathological personality traits and the naturalistic course of internalizing disorders among high risk young adults. Depression and Anxiety. 2 - CCC
Refereed Journal Articles (cont.) Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (in press). Optimizing prediction of psychosocial and clinical outcomes with a transdiagnostic model of personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2015). Adolescent precursors of adult borderline personality pathology in a high risk community sample. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29, 316-333. Conway, C. C., Slavich, G., & Hammen, C. (2015). Dysfunctional attitudes and affective responses to daily stressors: Separating cognitive, genetic, and clinical influences on stress reactivity. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 366-377. Starr, L., Hammen, C., Conway, C. C., Raposa, E. B., & Brennan, P. A. (2014). Sensitizing effect of early adversity on depressive reactions to later proximal stress: Moderation by polymorphisms in serotonin transporter and corticotropin releasing hormone receptor genes in a 20-year longitudinal study. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 1241-1254. Craske, M. G., Treanor, M., Conway, C. C., Zbozinek, T., & Vervliet, B. (2014). Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 58, 10-23. Conway, C. C., Slavich, G. M., & Hammen, C. (2014). Internalizing responses to daily life stress and serotonin transporter gene variation: Support for a transdiagnostic approach to gene-environment interplay in emotional disorders. Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 4, 1-9. Starr, L. R., Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2014). Transdiagnostic and disorder-specific models of intergenerational transmission of internalizing pathology. Psychological Medicine, 144, 161-174. Rancourt, D., Conway, C. C., Burk, W. J., & Prinstein, M. J. (2013). Gender composition of adolescents friendship groups as a moderator of socialization of body change behaviors. Health Psychology, 32, 283-292. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2012). A comparison of latent class, latent trait, and factor mixture models of DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder criteria in a community setting: Implications for DSM-5. Journal of Personality Disorders, 26, 793-803. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2012). Expanding stress generation theory: Test of a transdiagnostic model. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 754-766. 3 - CCC
Refereed Journal Articles (cont.) Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., Espejo, E. P., Wray, N. R., Najman, J. M., & Brennan, P. A. (2012). Appraisals of stressful life events as a genetically-linked mechanism in the stress-depression relationship. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 36, 338-347. Conway, C. C., Keenan-Miller, D., Hammen, C., Lind, P. A., Najman, J. M., & Brennan, P. A. (2012). Coaction of stress and serotonin transporter genotype in predicting aggression at the transition to adulthood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41, 53-63. Conway, C. C., Rancourt, D., Adelman, C., Burk, W. J., & Prinstein, M. J. (2011). Depression socialization within friendship groups at the transition to adolescence: The roles of gender and group centrality as moderators of peer influence. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 857-867. Katz, S. J., Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2011). Childhood social withdrawal, interpersonal impairment, and adulthood depression: A mediational model. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 1227-1238. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., Brennan, P. A., & Najman, J. (2010). Moderation of the effect of chronic stress on depression by serotonin transporter and catechol-o-methyltransferase polymorphisms: Evidence of a gene gene environment interaction. Depression and Anxiety, 27, 737-745. Manuscripts submitted, in preparation, or unpublished Conway, C. C., Rutter, L. A., & Brown, T. A. (Under re-review). Chronic environmental stress and the temporal course of depression and panic disorder: A trait-state-occasion modeling approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Conway, C. C., Starr, L. R., Espejo, E. P., Brennan, P. A., & Hammen, C. (In preparation). Stress appraisal bias and the transdiagnostic structure of internalizing and externalizing disorders. Invited submission to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Conway, C. C., Craske, M. G., Davies, C., Zinbarg, R. E., & Mineka, S. (Under revision). Abnormal personality dimensions of internalizing disorders in a high risk late adolescent sample. Professional publications Conway, C. C. (2013). Transdiagnostic psychotherapy training. The Clinical Psychologist, 66(3), 8-13. Conway, C. C. (2013). Diagnostic controversies and the changing face of clinical psychology. The Clinical Psychologist, 66(2), 17-18. 4 - CCC
Professional publications (cont.) Conway, C. C. (2013). Are psychologists attitudes about Borderline Personality Disorder keeping pace with science? The Clinical Psychologist, 66(1), 19-20. Book chapters under contract Conway, C. C., Bourgeois, M., & Brown, T. A. (in preparation). Clinical interviews with adults. In S. Hofmann (Ed.) Clinical psychology: A global perspective. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley- Blackwell. Conway, C. C., & Slavich, G. M. (in preparation). Genetics and genomics of prosocial behavior. In P. Gilbert (Ed.) Compassion: Concepts, Research, and Applications. London: Routledge. Conference Presentations, Workshops, Invited Lectures & Colloquia (* denotes student mentees) *Chang, F., *Gautam, A., Conway, C. C., & Craske, M. G. (2015, April). Interrelations among Diverse Measures of Distress Tolerance. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Miami, FL. Conway, C. C. (2014, November). Tracing the Genetic and Environmental Origins of Emotional Disorders with Transdiagnostic Models. Invited colloquium for the Purdue University Department of Psychological Sciences, West Lafayette, IN. Conway, C. C., Craske, M. G., Zinbarg, R. E., & Mineka, S. (2014, November). Developmental Timing of Early Adversities in the Prediction of Abnormal Personality Traits. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA. Starr, L. R., Hammen, C., Conway, C.C., Raposa, E., & Brennan, P.A. (2014, November). Sensitizing Effect of Early Adversity on Depressive Reactions to Later Proximal Stress: Moderation by 5-HTTLPR and CRHR1 in a 20-year Longitudinal Study. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2013, November). Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Pathology as Developmental Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Nashville, TN. Conway, C. C., Slavich, G., & Hammen, C. (2013, July). Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene Variation and Daily Affective Responses to Stress. Poster session presented as part of the symposium Cutting Edge Research from Emerging Psychological Scientists at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI. 5 - CCC
Conference Presentations, Workshops, Invited Lectures & Colloquia (cont.) Starr, L. R., Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P.A. (2013, April). Transdiagnostic and Disorder-Specific Models of Intergenerational Transmission of Internalizing Pathology. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, La Jolla, CA. Conway, C. C., & Hammen, C. (2012, November). The Serotonin Transporter Gene, Daily Stress Reactivity, And Psychopathology: An Endophenotype Approach. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, National Harbor, MD. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2012, November). Depression Contagion in Young Adult Friendships and Romantic Partnerships. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, National Harbor, MD. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2012, August). A Comprehensive Model of the Effects of Early Childhood Adversity on Psychopathology in Young Adulthood. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. A. (2011, November). Dimensional-Spectrum Models of Psychopathology and the Specificity of the Stress Generation Phenomenon to Major Depression. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Toronto, Canada. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., Keenan-Miller, D., & Brennan, P. A. (2011, April). Coaction of 5-HTTLPR and Life Stress in Young Adult Aggression. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA. Conway, C. C., Baucom, K. J. W., Castriotta, N., Holler, R., Jalbrzikowski, M., Radisavljevic, K., Thompson, E., & McFarr, L. M. (2010, November). Gender Bias in Assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms: An Item Response Theory Analysis. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, San Francisco, CA. Baucom, K. J. W., Conway, C. C., Thompson, E. H., & McFarr, L. M. (2010, June). Mechanisms of Change in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Poster session presented at the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, MA. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., & Brennan, P. (2009, November). Genetic Associations with Misappraisal of Stressful Life Event Severity, an Endophenotype for Depression. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY. 6 - CCC
Conference Presentations, Workshops, Invited Lectures & Colloquia (cont.) Hammen, C., Keenan-Miller, D., Hazel, N., Conway, C., & Brennan, P. (2009, September). Chronic Stress, 5-HTTLPR and COMT Genes, and the Prediction of Depression in Youth. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, MN. Conway, C. C., Hammen, C., Brennan, P. A., & Najman, J. (2009, May). Moderation of the Effect of Chronic Stress on Depression by Serotonin Transporter and Catechol-O- Methyltransferase Polymorphisms: Evidence of a Gene Gene Environment Interaction. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. Prinstein, M. J., Rancourt, D., & Conway, C. C. (2009, April). Selection and Socialization in Adolescent Peer Cliques. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development Convention, Denver, CO. Conway, C. C., Rancourt, D., & Prinstein, M. J. (2007, March). Depression Contagion within Adolescent Peer Cliques: The Roles of Gender and Clique Centrality. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development Convention, Boston, MA. Rancourt, D., Conway, C. C., & Prinstein, M. J. (2007, March). Clique Influences on Adolescent Weight-Related Behaviors. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development Convention, Boston, MA. TEACHING Classroom Instruction (2015-present, College of William & Mary; 2010, UCLA) Graduate Advanced Psychological Statistics Laboratory (2010) Clinical Research Laboratory (2010) Undergraduate Abnormal Psychology (2015) Research in Abnormal Psychology (2015) Nature and Nurture (2015) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Department, Collegiate, and University Service College of William & Mary Psychology Department Public Relations Committee, 2015 7 - CCC
Department, Collegiate, and University Service (cont.) UCLA Postdoctoral Fellows Committee Chair, 2013-2014 Coordinator for Genes & Environment: Finding the Missing Heritability of Complex Traits, conference held at Stanford University, 2010 Clinical Psychology Research Committee Member, 2009-2010 Clinical Psychology Academic Committee Member, 2008-2009 Duke University Psychology Majors Union President, 2006-2007 Editing and Reviewing Ad hoc reviewing: Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Affective Disorders; American Journal of Psychiatry; Archives of General Psychiatry; Biological Psychology; British Journal of Psychology; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology; Cognitive Therapy and Research; Development and Psychopathology; Journal of Family Psychology; PeerJ; Psychopathology; Journal of Research in Personality; Journal of Research on Adolescence; Social Development; Translational Psychiatry Student Column Editor, The Clinical Psychologist, 2013-2014 Award Reviews: APS RISE Research Award Competition, 2012-2013; APS Student Research Award Competition, 2013 Other Professional Service Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies: Produced Understanding the symptoms and causes of insomnia and Reducing behaviors that contribute to sleep problems videos for ABCT community outreach resource bank, 2015. National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder: Coordinator for the 11 th Annual Yale/NEA BPD Conference (2015) CLINICAL EXPERTISE AND TRAINING Licensed Psychologist, State of Virginia, 2015- Diagnostic Assessment DSM-5 disorders, personality, intelligence Psychological Treatments: Individual and group formats Theoretical orientation: cognitive-behavioral 8 - CCC
Psychology Internship: San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, 2012-2013 9 - CCC