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Dr. Tamara Sher is a licensed clinical psychologist and Vice President for Research at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She maintains an active clinical practice specializing in the treatment of couples and individuals. Dr. Sher is a health psychologist which means that she includes couples where one member has a medical illness and individuals with medical issues as particular areas of expertise.
Dr. Sher received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. She completed her internship training at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where she then served on the medical school faculty for seven years. She was also the head of the health psychology track of the internship program at Rush and Director of the Couples and Health program there.
In 1994, Dr. Sher moved to Illinois Institute of Technology where she progressed from Assistant Professor to Full Professor and Director of Clinical Training over the 17 years that she worked there.
Dr. Sher moved to The Family Institute in 2011 to take over the position of Vice President of Research and to move her private practice to The Family Institute.
Dr. Sher is the author of dozens of research publications, a co-editor of a book published by the American Psychological Association (The Psychology of Couples and Illness) and serves on the editorial boards of Health Psychology and Journal of Family Therapy.
Clinical Interests: Marital conflict, couples facing a medical illness, individuals facing a medical illness, women's health
Family Institute Locations: Downtown Chicago, Evanston
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