Dr. Carmin is a nationally recognized expert in the research and treatment of anxiety disorders and in cognitive behavior therapy. She is actively involved in training psychology post-doctoral fellows, interns, and externs and psychiatry residents in both CBT and anxiety treatment and is responsible for having developed these areas at UIC. She is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and has also been named a Beck Scholar, acknowledging her leadership in the field. Dr. Carmin is a member of an international working group studying cognitions in OCD and is one of the few clinical scientists who have published in the area of OCD in the elderly. She has also received NIMH grant funding to examine the relationship between anxiety and coronary heart disease. Her interests focus on translational research and psychophysiology of anxiety disorders. She has published widely and has presented at national and international meetings.

EDUCATION

1998-1990	Post-Doctoral Fellow in Cognitive Therapy/Anxiety Disorders, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine & University Hospitals of Cleveland.
1986	Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1980	M.Ed., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1974	B.S., Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, PA

ACADEMIC & CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

1996–pres	University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, Chicago, IL Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry (5/96 – 6/07); Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry (7/07 to present)
1990-1996	Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Division of Behavioral Medicine, Anxiety Disorders Center (9/90 – 7/95) Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Family Medicine, Division of Behavioral Medicine (7/95 – 5/96) Assistant Director, Anxiety Disorders Center (11/91 – 5/96)
1988-1990	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine & University Hospitals of Cleveland, Phobia Clinic, Cleveland, OH Post-doctoral Fellow in Cognitive Therapy
1989-1989	Cleveland Center for Cognitive Therapy, Beachwood, OH Psychologist
1988-1989	Western Reserve Psychiatric Habilitation Center, Northfield, OH Staff Psychologist
1987-1988	Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH Behavioral Sciences Division, Seminar Leader
1986-1988	Kent State University, Kent, OH Assistant Professor

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Carmin, C.N., Wiegartz, P.S., Yunus, U., & Gillock, K.L. (2002). Treatment of late-onset OCD following basal ganglia infarct. Depression and Anxiety. 15, 87-90.

Carmin, C.N., Wiegartz, P.S., Hoff, J.A., & Kondos, G.T. (2003). Cardiac anxiety in patients self-referred for electron beam tomography. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 26, 67-80.

Carmin, C.N. & Albano, A.M. (2003). Clinical management of anxiety disorders in psychiatric settings: Psychology’s impact on evidence-based treatment of children and adults. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 34, 170-176.

Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group. (2003). Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretations of Intrusions Inventory: Part I. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 41, 863-878.

Wiegartz, P.S. & Carmin, C.N. (2003). Hoarding and OCPD. Advances in Cognitive Therapy, 3, 4-5.

Calamari, J.E., Wiegartz, P.S., Riemann, B.C., Jones, R.M., Greer, A., Jacobi, D.M., Jahn, S.C., & Carmin, C.N. (2004). Obsessive-compulsive disorder subtypes: An attempted replication and an extension of symptom based taxonomy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42, 647-670.

Fava, M., Alpert, J.E., Carmin, C.N., Wisniewski, S.R., Trevedi, M.H., Biggs, M.M., Shores-Wilson, K., Morgan, D., Schwartz, T., & Rush, A.J. (2004). Clinical correlates and symptom patterns of anxious depression among patients with major depressive disorder in STAR*D. Psychological Medicine, 34, 1299-1308.

Friedman, E.S., Thase, M.E., Biggs, M.M., Carmin, C., Hollon, S.D., Kornblith, S.J., Petersen, T., Veenstra, G., Wisniewski, S.R., & Rush, A.J. (2004). The implementation of cognitive therapy in STAR*D. Cognitive Research and Therapy, 28, 819-833.

Carmin, C.N. (2005). The role of cognitions in OCD treatment: Toward rapprochement. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 34, 193-200.

Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (2005). Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Belief Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part 2, Factor analyses and testing of a brief version. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1527-42.

Peasley-Miklus, C, Massie, E., Baslett, G., Carmin, C. (2005). Treating obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia: The case of Sam. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 12, 379-383.

Taylor, S., Abramowitz, J.S., McKay, D., Calamari, J.E., Sookman, D., Kyrios, M., Wilhelm, S., & Carmin, C. (2006). Do dysfunctional beliefs play a role in all types of obsessive compulsive behavior? Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20, 85-97.

Fava, M., Alpert, J.E., Carmin, C.N., Wisniewski, S.R., Trevedi, M.H., Biggs, M.M., Shores-Wilson, K., Balasubramani, G.K., & Rush, A.J. (2006). What clinical and symptom features and comorbid disorders characterize outpatients with anxious major depressive disorder: A replication and extension. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 51(13), 823-835.

Mohlman, J., Carmin, C.N., & Price, R. (2007). Jumping to interpretations: Social anxiety disorder and the interpretation of emotional facial expressions. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 45(3), 591-599.

Fava, M., Rush, A.J., Alpert, J.E., Balasubramani, G.K., Wisniewski, S.R., Carmin, C.N., Biggs, M.M., Zisook, S., Leuchter, A., Howland, R., Warden, D., Trivedi, M.H. (2008). Differences in treatment outcome in outpatients with anxious vs. non-anxious depression: A STAR*D Report. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163 (3), 342-351

Marker, C.D., Carmin, C.N., & Ownby, R.L. (in press). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire. Depression and Anxiety.

Carmin, C.N., Ownby, R.L., Wiegartz, P.S., & Kondos, G.T. (in press). Women and non-cardiac chest pain: Gender differences related to symptom presentation. Archives of Women’s Mental Health.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Markway, B.G., Carmin, C.N., Pollard, C.A., & Flynn, T. (1992). Dying of embarrassment: New help for the treatment of social phobia. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Press
Morrendo de vergonha: Um guia para timidio e ansiosos. (Portugese edition)
Utangacligi Ynmek: Cekingen ve skkilganlar Icin el kitabi. (Turkish edition)

Roth-Romer, S., Robinson Kurpius, S., & Carmin, C.N. (Eds). (1998). The emerging role of counseling psychology in health care. NY: Norton Professional Books.

Carmin, C.N. (in press). OCD Demystified. NY: Avalon Publishing Group.

Carmin, C.N. (in press). Worried to Death. Ft. Lauderdale: Enalon

PUBLICATIONS: REPRESENTATIVE BOOK CHAPTERS

Carmin, C.N., Pollard, C.A., & Gillock, K.L. (1999). Assessment of anxiety disorders in the elderly. In P. Lichtenberg (Ed.), Handbook of Assessment in Clinical Gerontology (pp. 51-90). NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Wiegartz, P.L., Carmin, C.N., & Pollard, C.A. (2002). Cognitions in severe and treatment resistant obsessive compulsive disorder. In R.O Frost & G. Steketee (Eds.), Cognitive Approaches to Obsessions and Compulsions: Theory, Assessment and Treatment (pp. 361-369). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Pergamon/Elsevier Science.

Mennin, D.S., Turk, C.L., Heimberg, R.G., & Carmin, C.N. (2004). Focusing on the regulation of emotion: A new direction for conceptualizing and treating generalized anxiety disorder. In M.A. Reinecke & D.A. Clark (Eds.), Cognitive Therapy Over the Lifespan: Theory, Research, and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Carmin, C.N., Mohlman, J., & Buckley, A. (2004). Anxiety disorders in late life. In C. Speilberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Carmin, C.N., Wiegartz, P.S., & Wu, K (2005). Self-directed exposure in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. In J. Abramowitz & A.C. Houts (Eds.), Concepts and Controversies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (pp. 333-346). NY: Kluwer Academic Press.

Carmin, C.N., Wu, K., & Wiegartz, P.S. (2005). Response to Tolin et al. In J. Abramowitz & A.C. Houts (Eds.), Concepts and Controversies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, (pp. 353-358). NY: Kluwer Academic Press.

Carmin, C.N. & Wiegartz, P.S., & Wu, K. (2008).Obsessive-compulsive disorder with poor insight. In J. Abramowitz, D. McKay, & S. Taylor (Eds.), Clinical Handbook of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Problems (pp. 109-125). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Carmin, C.N., & Massie, E.D. (2008). Stress and Health. In F.T.L. Leong (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Counseling Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Publishing.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

• Board of Directors, Representative-at-Large to Membership Issues (2008-2011)
• Coordinator of Convention & Education Issues (2004-2007)
• Research Agenda Committee (1998-2001)
• Program Committee (2002 – pres.)

Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Founding Fellow)

• Credentialing Committee (2006 – present)

Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Work Group
The Expert Consensus Consortium, OCD Guidelines Project
OC Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago -- Scientific Advisory Board (1997 - 2004)
Psychological Society of the Western Reserve--Board of Directors (1987-1990)
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
Anxiety Disorders Association of America