PhD, clinical psychology, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego
Dementia caregiving stress, stress physiology, elder abuse
Susan Buehler, PhD, received her doctoral training at the San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. She completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship in health psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests involve psychological and physiological correlates of chronic stress. She also has researched coping moderators of the relationship between chronic stress and cardiovascular disease. In particular, she has focused on these relationships in chronically stressed dementia caregivers and more recently in the context of elder abuse. She has published 34 peer-reviewed articles in leading geriatric, psychiatry and medical journals. She also received awards from the Alzheimer’s Association, as well as a summer fellowship award for research in aging and mental health (START-MH program).