Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychology
University of Richmond
Dr. Camilla Nonterah is an Associate Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Richmond. She also holds an affiliate position as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She is a counseling psychologist by training whose research and clinical interests focus on behavioral medicine. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical psychology residency at Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston Consortium, and earned her doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Her research focuses primarily on physical and mental health in underserved groups and minoritized populations and is guided by a multicultural and intersectional framework. Most of her work focuses on the psychosocial aspects of end-stage organ disease and solid organ transplantation by examining health inequities, treatment seeking, and mental health in this area. She is also interested in the impact of culture and race on mental and physical health by examining contributors to poor health and psychological dysfunction as well as positive psychology.
She has published several peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the American Journal of Transplantation, Patient Education and Counseling, Progress in Transplantation, and Transplant Reviews, presented talks and posters at national and international conferences such as the American Transplant Congress and European Society of Transplantation Congress. She has received grants such as the Faculty Development Research Grant from the American Society of Transplantation, and the Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust. She is a currently an active Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access to Life (IDEAL) Committee of the American Society of Transplantation.