Ellen A. Dornelas PhD

Ellen Anderson (nee Ellen Dornelas) is an author and health psychologist who specializes in psychological aspects of medical illness. She is the author of Psychotherapy with Cardiac Patients: Behavioral Cardiology in Practice (2008) which was reviewed by Wolfgang Linden, who in 2009 described it as "a good potential textbook for a graduate course in behavioral cardiology". She is also the author of Psychological Treatment of Patients with Cancer, published by the American Psychological Association in 2018. She is the editor of Stress Proof the Heart, Behavioral Interventions for Cardiac Patients, published by Springer in 2012 and later translated into Chinese. Ellen is the editor of a 6 book series in Clinical Health Psychology published by American Psychological Association. The series can be found on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Health-Psychology-6-book-series/dp/B08DFW1KD4) and includes volumes on the psychological treatment of medical patients with substance abuse problems, pain, cancer, cardiac and respiratory disease and medical patients in the primary care setting.

Ellen became interested in working with medical patients as a psychologist in college. She obtained her PhD at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, which developed one of the first programs in health psychology in the United States. She worked with cardiac patients for more than 15 years, then worked with oncology patients for more than a decade before moving from hospital-based work to private practice.