Carmen L. Rivera-Medina

Education

Rivera-Medina completed a B.A. in psychology, cum laude, at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) in 1985. In 1991, she earned a M.S. in evaluation research with a minor in biostatistics from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. From August 1999 to July 2000, she was a predoctoral intern in the mental health division of the head start program at the New York Foundling of Puerto Rico. While there, she performed psychometric evaluations, psychotherapeutic interventions, and planned workshops for clients and employees of the head start program. In this same time period, she was also a predoctoral intern in the department of psychology at the San Juan Veterans Administration Medical Center where she conducted psychotherapeutic interventions with veterans and their families. In 2001, Rivera-Medina completed a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UPRRP. Her dissertation was titled Predictive and discriminant value of the Child Depression Inventory for Major Depression Disorder. From January 2002 to June 2004, she was a postdoc in the mental health and HIV cluster at the UPRRP Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network Program. Starting in January 2016, Rivera-Medina is a postdoc specialized in bioneuroemotion at the Enric Corbera Institute in Barcelona in conjunction with the Iberoamerican University Torreón.