Evan J. White, Ph.D.

About

Evan J. White, Ph.D., was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is an enrolled member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. He belongs to the Shawnee Chapter of the Native American Church of Oklahoma and the Whiteoak Shawnee Ceremonial Grounds. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Oklahoma State University. He also completed his master’s and doctoral education in clinical psychology at Oklahoma State University under the mentorship of DeMond M. Grant, Ph.D. His graduate research focused on employing psychophysiological techniques and to test predictions from cognitive models of mood and anxiety disorders. His clinical training was generalist clinical science broadly with an emphasis in adult outpatient treatment of anxiety, mood and trauma related disorders using evidence-based psychotherapy approaches. He completed his predoctoral clinical internship at the Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina/ Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center) in Charleston, South Carolina, working closely with his research preceptor Lisa McTeague, Ph.D.

White joined LIBR in 2019 as a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Robin Aupperle, Ph.D. During his fellowship, his training focused on using translational neuroimaging methodologies to predict treatment response in mood and anxiety disorders. In July 2022, White became a principal investigator at LIBR and director of Native American research and the electroencephalography core. The focus of his work is employing clinical cultural neuroscience to improve mental health outcomes among American Indians.