Shaun M. Eack, Ph.D.

Shaun M. Eack, Ph.D. is James and Noel Browne Endowed Chair in Social Work and Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the Director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Interventions to Enhance Community Health, a collaboration between the School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry that aims to improve the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based behavioral health treatments in the community. His research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of psychosocial treatments for persons with severe mental illness. His recent work focuses on the application of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy, a neurocognitive and social-cognitive rehabilitation program, to persons with schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. He has published papers on the efficacy of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy in both chronic and early course schizophrenia patients, as well as adults with autism spectrum disorder, and is currently studying the neurobiological effects of the treatment in both schizophrenia and autism, along with strategies to support its implementation in the community.