CSFS Faculty List
Kyle Boone, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor | Los Angeles Campus
Research interests: Malingering, neuropsychological assessment, neuropsychology
Email: kboone@alliant.edu
Laura A. Brodie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Irvine Campus
Research interests: Detecting deception, psychological safety of undercover police
officers, the assessment and treatment of sex offenders, and domestic violence
Email: lbrodie@alliant.edu
Marion Chiurazzi, Psy.D.
Interim Program Director & Associate Professor | Sacramento Campus
Research interests: Mental health treatment, psychopathy, suicide in correctional
settings
Email: mchiurazzi@alliant.edu
Diana Concannon, Psy.D., PCI
Associate Dean, Systemwide Director of Training & Professor | Los Angeles Campus
Research interests: Victimology, kidnapping, risk & threat assessment, conflict resolution,
stalking
Email: dconcannon@alliant.edu
Noor Damavandi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Irvine Campus
Research interests: Psychopathology, serious mental illnesses, incompetency and insanity
evaluations, risk assessment, correctional psychology, cross cultural psychology,
biological bases of behavior
Email: ndamavandi@alliant.edu
Annette Lorene Ermshar, Ph.D., ABPP
Associate Professor | Los Angeles
Research interests: Neuropsychology, juvenile law, psychological assessment, psychopathology
and the criminal mind
Email: aermshar@alliant.edu
Tracy Fass, J.D., Ph.D.
Interim Program Director, Los Angeles/Irvine & Associate Professor | Los Angeles
Research interests: Juvenile offenders, sentencing policy, and violence-risk assessment
Email: tfass@alliant.edu
Valerie Forward, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Fresno
Research interests: Psychological consultation, trauma & abuse, victimology, psychodynamic
& interpersonal therapies
Email: vforward@alliant.edu
Debra F. Glaser, Ph.D., ABPP
Associate Professor | Los Angeles
Research interests: Police & public safety psychology, first responders, stalking,
crisis negotiation & SWAT, workplace violence assessment, social psychology
Email: dglaser2@alliant.edu
Eric Hickey, Ph.D.
CSFS Dean & Professor | Fresno
Research interests: Stalking, adult rape & sexual assault, violent criminal behavior
including robbery, burglary & homicide, paraphilia including pedophilia, child molestation,
fetishes
Email: ehickey@alliant.edu
Robert A. Leark, Ph.D.
Professor | San Diego
Research interests: Neuropsychology, test construction, malingering and ADHD
Email: rleark@alliant.edu
Daniel Levinson, Ph.D.
Lecturer | Irvine
Research interests: Neuropsychology, PTSD & mild traumatic brain injuries in combat
veterans, test construction and malingering
Email: dlevinson2@alliant.edu
Glenn Scott Lipson, Ph.D., ABPP
Interim Program Director & Professor | San Diego
Research interests: Stalking, malpractice, critical incidents, risk assessment
Email: glipson@alliant.edu
Christopher Michael, Ph.D.
Lecturer | Los Angeles
Research interests: Test construction, malingering, psychosis/paranoia, psychopathy,
psychotherapy integration
Email: cmichael@alliant.edu
Deborah S. Miora, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | Los Angeles
Research interests: Relationship of higher order cognitive function to underlying
brain structures, neuropsychological and legal issues pertaining to the less developmentally
mature adult brain and juveniles in the context of criminal proceedings
Email: dmiora@alliant.edu
Jana Price-Sharps, Ed.D.
Associate Professor | Fresno
Research interests: Police Officer stress and PTSD
Email: jprice-sharps@alliant.edu
Lou Rappaport, Ph.D.
Program Director & Associate Professor | San Francisco
Research interests: Evidence-based Treatment in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
and in the Evaluation and Treatment of PTSD/Trauma in First Responders and in the
Military
Email: lrappaport@alliant.edu
Veronica Thomas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Irvine
Research interests: Socio-emotional and personality testing, ethical & legal issues
in professional practice,
Email: vthomas@alliant.edu
Amy Tillery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Fresno
Research interests: Substance abuse and dual diagnosis treatment for adolescent offenders,
effectiveness of the juvenile justice systems and mentally ill offenders, and spirituality
as related to treatment responsiveness
Email: atillery@alliant.edu
James Turner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | San Diego
Research interests: Police psychology, investigative psychology, threat assessment
Email: jturner@alliant.edu
Lisa Ware, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Sacramento
Research interests: Child behavior disorders, malingering, social phobia and children
with autism and developmental disabilities
Email: lware@alliant.edu
Dale White, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Fresno
Research interests: Foster children and social problem solving; treatment variables
and inpatient mental health; forensic lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues;
adoption; and mental health administration
Email: dwhite@alliant.edu