Donna Yaffe, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a health psychology specialist. She received a bachelor'?s degree in psychology, with honors, from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology, with specialty in health psychology, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. After completing an internship in health psychology at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut, Dr Yaffe completed a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine within the Division of Medical Psychology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.