Dr. Jackie Gollan is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at The University of Washington in Seattle in 1999, her clinical internship at Brown University Medical School in Providence Rhode Island in 2000, and her postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston MA in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006, she worked as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Chicago, and then in 2006, she transferred to Northwestern. She is a clinical researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her clinical expertise focus on the delivery of evidence-based psychotherapies for depression and anxiety, with a focus on behavioral activation and cognitive behavioral therapy. Her clinical research focused on identifying mechanisms of treatment response uses multiple methods (e.g., neuroimaging, computer tasks, biological challenges) towards the goal of developing an effective treatment for depression.
