Tawanda Maria Greer-Medley
 Title: Associate Professor
 Dept: Counseling, Administration, Supervision & Adult Learning
 Office: JH 270
 Phone: 216-523-7134
 Email: t.greermedley@csuohio.edu
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. JH 270, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Research Keywords:
Health disparities, Health Care, Racism, African American populations, Neural Correlates of Race-Related Stress, Hypertension, Models of Stress and Coping, Implicit Racial Bias, Provider Racial Biases
 
Education:
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2003
M.A., Counseling Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1999
B.S., Psychology, Bowie State University, 1996
 
Brief Bio:
Dr. Tawanda M. Greer-Medley is an Associate Professor in the Counseling Psychology doctoral program in the Department of Counseling, Administration, Supervision, and Adult Learning.

She specializes in sociocultural contributors to health and health disparities. Dr. Greer-Medley's published work include studies on the relationship between racism and mental health, impacts of provider racial biases for African American hypertensive patients, neural correlates of racism and race-related social perception, mental health impacts of racially hostile campus climates, coping strategies in managing and reducing stress for African Americans, and culturally-congruent interventions for African Americans diagnosed with hypertension.

Dr. Greer-Medley is the former Associate Editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly (flagship journal of the American Psychological Association's Division 35 Society for the Psychology of Women) and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Black Psychology (flagship journal of the Association of Black Psychologists/ABPsi).
 
Teaching Areas:
Multicultural Psychology, Health Psychology, Doctoral Practicum - Counseling & Assessment, Psychology of Race and Racism, Social Justice, Personality Assessment