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Biography
Dr. Rheingold is a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor, and Associate Director at the National Crime Victim's Research and Treatment Center within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS) at the Medical University of South Carolina. She currently serves as Vice Chair for Research and Research Administration for the DPBS. She also is the Director of Response, Recovery, and Resilience for the National Mass Violence Center. She completed her undergraduate coursework in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Cum Laude and with Honors in Psychology. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from MCP Hahnemann University (currently known as Drexel University). Dr. Rheingold completed a Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology at the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Program and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the NCVC, Medical University of South Carolina. Her clinical expertise includes the treatment of anxiety disorders, mass violence response and intervention, and trauma related mental health issues. Her main research interests include traumatic bereavement, death by homicide, early interventions for trauma, etiological factors and treatment outcome research of trauma related psychopathology.