Email

latini@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Urology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, United States

Associate Professor (secondary appointment)

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Senior Research Scientist

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Education

PhD from Stanford University

06/1996 - Stanford, California United States

Educational Psychology

MSW from University of Houston

05/2015 - Houston, Texas United States

Clinical Social Work

Graduate Certificate at University of Michigan

11/2011 - Ann Arbor, Michigan United States

Sex Therapy

Graduate Certificate at California School of Professional Psychology

06/2004 - San Francisco, California United States

Clinical Psychology, APA-accredited Post-Doctral Respecialization Diploma

AM from Stanford University

12/1993 - Stanford, California United States

Education

MS from New Mexico State University

Las Cruces, New Mexico United States

Clinical Psychopharmacology

Certifications

Licensed Psychologist

#34956

Texas Board of Examiners in Psychology

Licensed Psychologist

#PSY23445 (04/01/2010)

California Board of Psychology

Honors & Awards

Fellow, Cancer, Culture, & Literacy Program

01/2003 - 12/2003

Health Disparities Scholar – National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Extramural Loan Repayment Program

10/2007 - 09/2010

Fellow, National Institutes of Health Summer Institute on the Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions

07/2004

Member, Phi Alpha

Mu Lambda chapter, University of Houston

National social work honor society (05/2015)

Member, Phi Kappa Phi

04/2019

Professional Interests

• Quality of life
• Cancer survivorship
• Health literacy
• LGBTQ Health

Professional Statement

I’m a clinical psychologist with expertise in couples and family psychology, cancer survivorship and rehabilitation, and LGBTQ health. Since 2000, my work has focused primarily on psychosocial adaptation to genitourinary cancers, HIV, and other chronic diseases experienced by older adults.

In 2006, I joined the faculty of the Scott Department of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry. In addition to my research, I am the course co-director for two medical student electives: Human Sexuality and LGBTQ Health. My current clinical work focuses couples and individual psychotherapy.

Before joining Baylor, I was with the University of California, San Francisco Department of Urology from 2000-2006.

My research projects have been funded ($1.8 million as Principal Investigator, $8.8 million as Co-Investigator) by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, the Department of Defense Congressionally-Mandated Medical Research Program, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Websites

Memberships

American Psychological Association

(07/1996)