Dr. Robert J. DeRubeis
Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Professor
of Psychology
The
associate dean is responsible to the dean for the departments
of Anthropology, Economics, History, History and Sociology
of Science, Political Science, and Sociology. He works with
the dean on priorities and long-term planning and with chairs
and directors on matters of personnel, budget, space, and
facilities.
Dr. DeRubeis has been on the Penn faculty since his appointment as assistant professor in 1983. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota under the mentorship of Steve Hollon, with whom he maintains an active collaboration. He is the past director of clinical training in the Penn doctoral program, and the former chair of the Psychology Department.
Dr. DeRubeis has authored or co-authored more than 75 articles
and book chapters on topics that center on the treatment
of depression. He received the Academy of Cognitive Therapy’s
Aaron T. Beck Award in 2004 for his contributions to research
on cognitive therapy. His empirical research comparing the
benefits of cognitive therapy and medications for severe
depression, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry
and the Archives
of
General Psychiatry, has been the subject of media reports
in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.