Rate My Professor David Pan

David Pan is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Department Chair, and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Psychology at New Mexico Highlands University. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Science (Child and Family Track) from the University of Southern California in 2011, with a dissertation titled "Directive and non-directive therapist styles: Brief intervention for subsyndromal depression for Asian and European Americans." He also holds an M.A. from USC (2006), with a thesis on "One-session treatment for phobic Asian adults," and a B.A. in Psychology with honors from Stanford University (2002). Prior to joining NMHU as Assistant Professor in 2012, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System's War Related Illness and Injury Center (2011-2012), where he conducted assessments, led psychoeducation groups, and developed studies on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for chronic pain in Gulf War Veterans. He advanced to Associate Professor with tenure at NMHU and is a licensed psychologist in New Mexico (License No. 1284, since August 2013).

Dr. Pan's research focuses on cultural adaptations of cognitive-behavioral therapies for ethnoracial populations, brief interventions for subsyndromal depression and phobias, mindfulness-based behavioral activation, nature-based therapy, anxiety, depressive disorders, acculturation, and mental health services utilization among Asian Americans and veterans. He edited the book CBT with Ethnoracial Populations: Implementing Evidence-Based Practice (Springer, 2023). Key peer-reviewed publications include Pan, D., Huey, S., & Hernandez, D. (2011), "Culturally-adapted vs. standard exposure treatment for phobic Asian Americans: Treatment efficacy, moderators, and predictors," Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 17, 11-22; Huey, S. & Pan, D. (2006), "Culture-responsive one-session treatment for Asian Americans: A pilot study," Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 43, 549-554; and Wood, P., Yeh, M., Pan, D., et al. (2005), "Exploring the relationship between race/ethnicity, age of first school-based services utilization, and age of first specialty mental health care for at-risk youth," Mental Health Services Research, 7, 185-196. At NMHU, he chairs the Institutional Review Board, serves on Faculty Senate's Academic Affairs Committee, and leads mindfulness programs, such as collaborations with national parks.