Howard Tennen is a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts. Since 1978, he has been affiliated with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, where he is a member of the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry. Dr. Tennen’s research focuses on adjustment to threatening encounters, the daily dynamics of chronic pain, stress, and alcohol use and the application of daily process methods in clinical trials.