Kristen Knepp, Ph.D., joins the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Knepp will teach across multiple behavioral science content areas in the Introduction to Clinical Skills and Patient, Physician, and Community modules, which includes medical interviewing skills, the patient-physician relationship, mental health and illness, and human psychosocial development. In addition, she will be developing standardized patient cases for medical interviewing.

Before to joining NEOMED, Dr. Knepp worked as a clinical health psychologist at Summa Health Weight Management Institute.

Dr. Knepp earned her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Clinical Psychology and is pursuing a certificate in Nutrition Science from Tufts University.