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Risa B. Weisberg, PhD, is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Department of Family Medicine at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She is also Co-Director of the Brown University Program for Anxiety Research and Associate Director of the Psychiatry Clinical Assessment and Training Unit at Brown University. Dr. Weisberg is a graduate of Tufts University (BA) and the University at Albany, State University of New York (PhD in clinical psychology). She completed a predoctoral internship and a postdoctoral fellowship Brown University. Currently, Dr. Weisberg is Principal Investigator of an NIH Career Development Award which seeks to adapt efficacious, cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders to primary care settings. She is Co-PI of the Harvard-Brown Anxiety Research Project (HARP - NIH-funded) and of the Primary Care Anxiety Project (PCAP - industry-funded) both of which are longitudinal, naturalistic follow-up studies of patients with anxiety disorders. HARP has a focus on cross-cultural representations and course of anxiety, and PCAP examines course and treatment of anxiety in primary care patients. Other areas of research interest include integration of mental health care in primary care settings, as well as sexual and reproductive health.

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