Assistant Director, Palliative Care Psychiatry Research Program
San Diego Hospice & The Institute for Palliative Medicine
4311 Third Avenue
San Diego
CAUSA
92103-1407
Biographical Sketch: Lori Montross, Ph.D. is a psychologist and serves as the Assistant Director of the Palliative Care Psychiatry Research Program at The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice. Lori initiates and conducts research activities while also providing psychological treatment to patients. She serves as a faculty member of the SDHIPM teaching team, and therefore offers mentorship and training regarding the unique psychological aspects of end-of-life care to students, staff, and other community constituents. Dr. Montross received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Iowa State University in 1994, and her Master’s of Counseling degree from Arizona State University in 1997. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Kentucky in 2003, and completed her clinical internship at the Cincinnati Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center. Afterward, she was chosen to become a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Psychiatry Department of the University of California – San Diego (UCSD), where she specialized in Geriatric Psychiatry. During her tenure at UCSD, she conducted both quantitative and qualitative research in areas of successful aging, suicide prevention, and medication efficacy. She has received grant funding from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) as well as UCSD’s Clinical and Translational Research Institute. She has authored or co-authored more than 29 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and abstracts, and has served as a reviewer for over six journals and international grant councils. She further brings more than 12 years of experience as an educator, with both teaching and administrative experience in community college, university, and private institutional settings.