Greg Fonzo, PhD

Greg Fonzo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology.  He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Georgia Honors Program in 2005 with a dual bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology in 2013 from the San Diego State University/University of California-San Diego Joint Doctoral Program. He completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.  Dr. Fonzo’s research focuses on elucidating neurobiological mechanisms underlying manifestation and treatment of affective and stress-related disorders  and designing novel neuroscience-informed treatment modalities using tools such as neuroimaging and neuromodulation.  He is currently leading efforts at The University of Texas at Austin to understand how psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy augments neural and psychological function to alleviate mental illness and how to improve and enhance the prediction, durability, and magnitude of therapeutic benefits.