Specialties
Adjustment to Life-Threatening Illness/Serious Injury (HIV, Cancer, SCI)
Mindfulness-based
Healing from Trauma (Combat-Related, MVA, Childhood Abuse)
Stress Management
Existential
Relationship Issues
Womens' Issues.

Publications
Redwine, L.S., Mills, P.J., Hong, S., Rutledge, T., Reis, V.A., Maisel, A., Irwin, M.R. (2007). Cardiac-related Hospitalization and/or Death Associated With Immune Dysregulation and Symptoms of Depression in Heart Failure Patients. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 23-29.

Rutledge, T., Reis, V.A., Linke, S. (2006). Depression in Heart Failure: A Meta-analytic Review of Prevalence, Intervention Effects, and Associations with Clinical Outcomes. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 48 (8), 1527-1537.

Zaidel, D.W., Bava, S., & Reis, V.A. (2003). Relationship between facial asymmetry and judging trustworthiness in faces. Laterality, 8 (3), 225-232.

Reis, V.A., & Zaidel, D.W. (2001). Brain and face: Communicating signals of health in the left and right sides of the face. Brain & Cognition, 46 (1-2), 240-244.

Reis, V.A., & Zaidel, D.W. (2001). Functional asymmetry in the human face: Perception of health in the left and right sides of the face. Laterality, 6 (3), 225-231.

Presentations
Reis, V.A. (September 2007). PsychoSocial Aspects of Living with Colorectal Cancer-VA c-4 Collaborative. Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Veterans Affairs Hematology Oncology Society, Alexandria, Virginia.

Rutledge, T., Linke, S., Reis, V.A. (March 2006). Depression in congestive heart failure: A meta-analytic review of prevalence and associations with clinical outcomes. Poster session at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, Colorado.

Reis, V.A. (August 2004). Culturally Competent Counseling of African American Women with Breast Cancer. Poster session at the International PsychoOncology Society 7th World Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.

O'Meara, T., Abreu, J.M., McClendon, V., & Reis, V.A. (August 2002). Impact of Diversity Courses on Undergraduate White Racial Identity Development. Poster session at the American Psychological Association 111th Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

Reis, V.A., & Zaidel, D.W. (June 16, 2000). Brain and face: Communicating signals of health in the left and right sides of the face. Poster presentation at the Tennet XI Neuropsychology Conference, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

Speaking Engagements
Keynote Speaker (August 2000). American Cancer Society’s Annual Survivor’s Day Picnic, Monterey-Salinas Chapter.

Paid Keynote Speaker (September 1999). Opening of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Professional Associations
California Psychological Association - 2005 to Present
American Psycho-Oncology Society -2004 to Present
American Psychological Association 2000-2005