Kate Brody Nooner, PhD, ABPP
Dr. Kate Brody Nooner, a board-certified licensed clinical psychologist, board member, and professor, is a leader at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). She is the founding Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, Policy, Research & Innovation in the College of Science and Engineering. Her other significant roles at UNCW include Chair of the Department of Psychology and Vice President of the Faculty Senate.
Dr. Nooner is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Health Service Psychology​ for the National Register of Health Service Psychologists and a past Board member. She serves on several boards, including the North Carolina Psychological Board and the American Board of Professional Psychology Foundation. Dr. Nooner is a registered site visitor with the American Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation. ​She is also an active member of the American Psychological Association (Division 6) and the Research Society on Alcohol. ​
​Dr. Nooner played a pivotal role in creating and developing UNCW's APA-approved PhD Program in Clinical Psychology. Her work included founding and directing the General Psychotherapy & Assessment Clinic, UNCW's doctoral training clinic focused on providing evidence-based mental health care to the community. Dr. Nooner provides supervision and consultation to individuals, groups, and organizations, drawing from her evidence-based, developmentally informed clinical psychology expertise. She spent many years in part-time private practice in North Carolina and New York and maintains state licenses.​
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Dr. Nooner's expertise is further demonstrated by her role as a tenured full professor of psychology and her direction of the Trauma and Resilience Laboratory. She holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine and is a member of the National Consortium on Alcohol Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA). She has been the principal investigator of National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism NIH grants. She served as the lead principal investigator for an NSF grant to further women faculty in STEM fields. Dr. Nooner gives presentations and authors publications on advocacy in mental health, psychology, and neuroscience.
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Dr. Nooner obtained her BA in psychology from Wellesley College and her PhD from the University of California San Diego / San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, specializing in developmental psychopathology. She completed her clinical residency with child and adolescent specialization at the Columbia University School of Medicine and her post-doctoral training at New York University's Child Study Center. Dr. Nooner is board-certified in clinical psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology.
​Dr. Nooner has served as the Associate Chair - Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Psychology at UNCW. Before joining the faculty at UNCW, Dr. Nooner was a tenure-track assistant professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She was also a tenured research scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in New York.​
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For more information, you can reach Dr. Nooner directly at noonerk@uncw.edu or 910.962.2571.