David F. Tolin

David Tolin, Ph.D., is a board-certified clinical psychologist and Past-President of the Clinical Psychology division of the American Psychological Association. He is the founder and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center and the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital, and is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale University School of Medicine.

Considered an international expert in the field of clinical psychology, David is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. His research is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and he also serves as a scientific reviewer for NIMH research grant applications. In recent years he has received the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Psychology, the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology, and the Lifetime Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology from the Connecticut Psychological Association. A highly sought-after lecturer, David has presented invited workshops in recent years in venues such as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard University, and the Nobel Forum in Stockholm.

David received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in 1997, and completed a predoctoral internship in clinical psychology at the VA Medical Center in Boston. He spent three years as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania prior to starting his own clinical and research program at the Institute of Living. He is currently considered one of the nation’s leading experts in the areas of cognitive-behavioral therapy, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.

David’s research focuses on understanding the nature of anxiety- and obsessive-compulsive disorders in adults in children, using a wide variety of strategies including functional neuroimaging, diagnostic interviewing and questionnaires, and computerized cognitive testing. He also develops and tests psychological interventions for these disorders focusing on mechanisms of illness and recovery.