Giuseppe Dominic Matarazzo was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association.
12 Facts About Joseph Matarazzo
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Joseph Matarazzo chaired the first medical psychology department in the United States and has been credited with much of the early work in health psychology.
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Joseph Matarazzo attended school in New York and then joined the United States Navy.
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Joseph Matarazzo attended Columbia University and Brown University before earning a PhD in clinical psychology at Northwestern University.
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Early in his career, Joseph Matarazzo taught psychology at the Washington University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
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From 1957 to 1996, Joseph Matarazzo was the founding chairman of the medical psychology department at Oregon Health Sciences University, the first such department in the US with administrative autonomy.
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Joseph Matarazzo was a professor emeritus at OHSU, where his research interests include behavioral cardiology and neuropsychology.
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Joseph Matarazzo is credited with naming and laying the foundation for the field of health psychology.
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Joseph Matarazzo was the first president of the APA's Division of Health Psychology in 1978.
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When psychologists had complained about the involvement of their profession in such interrogation programs, Joseph Matarazzo had authored a memo stating that sleep deprivation did not amount to torture.
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Joseph Matarazzo later held owned shares in a company that had designed the interrogation programs.
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Joseph Matarazzo died on January 23,2025, at the age of 99.