Joseph Trombello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Undergraduate

University of Notre Dame (2006), Psychology

Graduate School

University of Oxford (2007), Neuroscience

Graduate School

University of California UCLA (2008), Psychology

Graduate School

University of California UCLA (2013), Psychology

• Dr. Trombello is a board-certified clinical psychologist. His research focuses on the interplay between mood disorders and intimate relationship functioning. His work also examines how relationship functioning affects the etiology and treatment of mood and substance use disorders. Finally, he is interested in measurement psychometrics and in analyzing outcomes of the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care's Behavioral Activation teletherapy program.

Featured Publications

Marital quality and health: a meta-analytic review.

Robles TF, Slatcher RB, Trombello JM, McGinn MM Psychol Bull 2014 Jan 140 1 140-87

Brain regulation of emotional conflict predicts antidepressant treatment response for depression.

Fonzo GA, Etkin A, Zhang Y, Wu W, Cooper C, Chin-Fatt C, Jha MK, Trombello J, Deckersbach T, Adams P, McInnis M, McGrath PJ, Weissman MM, Fava M, Trivedi MH, Nat Hum Behav 2019 Sep

The Role of Dyadic Discord in Outcomes in Acute Phase Cognitive Therapy for Adults With Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder.

Trombello JM, Vittengl JR, Denton WH, Minhajuddin A, Thase ME, Jarrett RB, Behav Ther 2019 Jul 50 4 778-790

A Structured Approach to Detecting and Treating Depression in Primary Care: VitalSign6 Project.

Jha MK, Grannemann BD, Trombello JM, Clark EW, Eidelman SL, Lawson T, Greer TL, Rush AJ, Trivedi MH, Ann Fam Med 2019 Jul 17 4 326-335

VitalSign⁶: A Primary Care First (PCP-First) Model for Universal Screening and Measurement-Based Care for Depression.

Trivedi MH, Jha MK, Kahalnik F, Pipes R, Levinson S, Lawson T, Rush AJ, Trombello JM, Grannemann B, Tovian C, Kinney R, Clark EW, Greer TL, Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2019 May 12 2

The Concise Health Risk Tracking-Self Report: Psychometrics within a placebo-controlled antidepressant trial among depressed outpatients.

Trombello JM, Killian MO, Grannemann BD, Rush AJ, Mayes TL, Parsey RV, McInnis M, Jha MK, Ali A, McGrath PJ, Adams P, Oquendo MA, Weissman MM, Carmody TJ, Trivedi MH J. Psychopharmacol. (Oxford) 2019 Jan 269881118817156

Pretreatment Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex Connectivity With Salience Network Predicts Depression Recovery: Findings From the EMBARC Randomized Clinical Trial.

Whitton AE, Webb CA, Dillon DG, Kayser J, Rutherford A, Goer F, Fava M, McGrath P, Weissman M, Parsey R, Adams P, Trombello JM, Cooper C, Deldin P, Oquendo MA, McInnis MG, Carmody T, Bruder G, Trivedi MH, Pizzagalli DA, Biol. Psychiatry 2018 Dec

A Novel Strategy to Identify Placebo Responders: Prediction Index of Clinical and Biological Markers in the EMBARC Trial.

Trivedi MH, South C, Jha MK, Rush AJ, Cao J, Kurian B, Phillips M, Pizzagalli DA, Trombello JM, Oquendo MA, Cooper C, Dillon DG, Webb C, Grannemann BD, Bruder G, McGrath PJ, Parsey R, Weissman M, Fava M Psychother Psychosom 2018 Aug 1-11

Personalized prediction of antidepressant v. placebo response: evidence from the EMBARC study.

Webb CA, Trivedi MH, Cohen ZD, Dillon DG, Fournier JC, Goer F, Fava M, McGrath PJ, Weissman M, Parsey R, Adams P, Trombello JM, Cooper C, Deldin P, Oquendo MA, McInnis MG, Huys Q, Bruder G, Kurian BT, Jha M, DeRubeis RJ, Pizzagalli DA Psychol Med 2018 Jul 1-10

Pretreatment and early-treatment cortical thickness is associated with SSRI treatment response in major depressive disorder.

Bartlett EA, DeLorenzo C, Sharma P, Yang J, Zhang M, Petkova E, Weissman M, McGrath PJ, Fava M, Ogden RT, Kurian BT, Malchow A, Cooper CM, Trombello JM, McInnis M, Adams P, Oquendo MA, Pizzagalli DA, Trivedi M, Parsey RV Neuropsychopharmacology 2018 Jun

• Beck Institute Student Scholarship
  (2014)
• International Association for Relationship Research Student Travel Award
  (2014)
• National Register of Health Service Psychologists Credentialing Scholarship
  (2013)
• Chair's Prize
  University of California, Los Angeles (2008)
• Graduate Research Mentorship Award
  University of California, Los Angeles (2008-2009)
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award
  University of California, Los Angeles (2008-2009)
• Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  (2008)
• University Graduate Fellowship
  University of California, Los Angeles (2007-2008)
• Clarendon Scholarship
  Full tuition and fees for graduate study at the University of Oxford (2006-2007)
• John F. Santos Award for Distinction in Psychology
  University of Notre Dame (2006)
• Phi Beta Kappa
  (2006)

• Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (2016)
• Dallas Psychological Association (2015-2016)
• Texas Psychological Association (2013-2015)