Cory F. Newman, PhD, ABPP, is director of the Center for Cognitive Therapy, professor of psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 987 and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Therapy under the mentorship of Dr. Aaron T. Beck.
 
Since then, Dr. Newman has maintained a full caseload of clients and has supervised more than 3 postdoctoral fellows, psychiatry residents, predoctoral students, international Beck Scholars, and other mental healthcare practitioners. He has served as a protocol cognitive amp ndash behavioral therapist and supervisor on numerous large-scale psychotherapy outcome studies, including the Penn-Vanderbilt-Rush Treatment of Depression Projects and the NIDA Multisite Collaborative Study on Treatments for Cocaine Abuse. While on sabbatical at the University of Colorado at Boulder in fall 2 , Dr. Newman taught the graduate seminar on the fundamentals of cognitive amp ndash behavioral supervision.
 
Dr. Newman is an international lecturer, having presented more than 2 cognitive amp ndash behavioral therapy (CBT) workshops and seminars throughout the U.S., as well as in 8 other countries. He is the lead author of dozens of articles and chapters of CBT for a range of clinical problems and has authored or coauthored six books, including Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Therapy Approach and Core Competencies in Cognitive amp ndash Behavioral Therapy: Becoming a Highly Effective and Competent Cognitive amp ndash Behavioral Therapist.
  
Danielle A. Kaplan, PhD, is the director of the Predoctoral Psychology Internship at New York University (NYU)-Bellevue Hospital Center, where she is a clinical assistant professor in the NYU School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. She also coordinates CBT training and supervision for the NYU psychiatry residency.
 
Dr. Kaplan received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since then, she has practiced CBT in community mental health, hospital-based, and private-practice settings and has taught and supervised CBT at Northwestern University and Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Kaplan is the author of numerous book chapters and conference presentations on topics, including diversity training, cross-cultural mental health issues, and vicarious traumatization. In addition to her teaching and supervisory responsibilities, she maintains a private psychotherapy practice where she specializes in CBT for depression and anxiety disorders and reproductive and perinatal mental health.