Marta Meana

Marta Meana, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with an expertise in women's health and sexuality. She obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University, completed a pre-doctoral internship in Behavioral Medicine and Outpatient Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and a post-doctoral fellowship in Women's Health at the Toronto Hospital. She has published and lectured extensively on issues of concern to the health...See more

Marta Meana, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with an expertise in women's health and sexuality. She obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University, completed a pre-doctoral internship in Behavioral Medicine and Outpatient Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and a post-doctoral fellowship in Women's Health at the Toronto Hospital. She has published and lectured extensively on issues of concern to the health of women and is an active member and officer in multiple professional organizations. Dr. Meana has also won numerous awards for her research and teaching. Dr. Lindsey Ricciardi received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She completed her professional internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Hospitals Eating and Weight Disorders program where she helped to develop and direct the behavioral services division of the hospitals bariatric surgery program. Her research investigating the psychological and social aspects of weight loss surgery has been presented at numerous national and international conferences. Together with her husband Dominic, a bariatric physician, she runs Creative Health Solutions, an interdisciplinary weight management program in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she serves as Director of Behavioral Health Services. See less