C. Andres Bedoya, Ph.D.

   

 

Dr. C. Andres BedoyaDr. C. Andres Bedoya is a staff psychologist in the Behavioral Medicine Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also serves as an Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bedoya earned his doctoral degree at the University of Miami in clinical health psychology, where his clinical and research focus involved the application of cognitive behavioral interventions with minority and chronically-ill groups. Through the University of Miami, he additionally received a certificate in bilingual and bicultural counseling of Hispanic/Latino patients. He completed his clinical internship at the Boston University School of Medicine’s Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology and post-doctoral fellowship with the Behavioral Medicine Service.

As part of his research, Dr. Bedoya is co-principal investigator (PI: Trinh) of a clinical intervention study funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation addressing disparities in the treatment of depression within Asian and Latino American patients in primary care settings. His research and clinical interests involve addressing psychological disorder in chronically-ill, underserved populations through intervention development and mixed-methods research.