Experts Guide
Associate Professor
Cowell Hall, 308
Expertise: Child, adolescent, and family psychology,
Psychodynamic, brief/strategic, and solutions-focused therapy,
South Asian diaspora acculturation and mental health,
Program development and community partnerships
Dr. Meghani is a core faculty member and licensed psychologist in the School of Nursing and Health Professions Clinical Psychology PsyD program. She served as the PsyD Program Director from 2021 - 2024.
Dr. Meghani is the founder of Parentline, a free telehealth service that provides emotional support and counseling to parents of children from birth to five years of age. Her research examines the impact of inclusive, culturally responsive, and evidence-based interventions focused on reducing…
Professor
SFH Downtown Campus, Room 601
Professor Vijay Mehrotra serves as a professor of Business Analytics at the University of San Francisco, where he has recently developed an innovative module for his MBA students that is focused on Customer Success Management (the first such academic program in the world). He also leads the Business Analytics concentration within USF's MBA program and teaches courses in Business Analytics, Predictive Modeling, and Data Mining.
Since 1992, he has been active in the world of analytics,…
Adjunct Professor
Mark brings more than two decades of experience advising Fortune 100 clients, elected officials, trade associations and high profile individuals navigate a myriad of communications challenges in the global marketplace, especially developing compelling messaging, coalition building, advocacy and grass-top organizing to positively influence public opinion.
Over the years Mark has worked with many high-profile clients in engaging with major news organizations such as USA Today, The Washington…
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Expertise: Behavioral research methods,
Quantitative social science,
Web-scraping,
R Programming
Assistant Professor Matt Meister studies consumer judgment and decision-making. Matt's research is particularly focused on how consumers communicate their experiences, and learn about the experiences of others. Matt is also a keen proponent of open science, both for replicability and collaboration. All data and code used in his research is available through his website (mattmeister.com). This includes python code for web-scraping, and the R package specster, a set of flexible, multicore…
Professor
Harney Science Center 371
Prior to joining the University of San Francisco, Dr. Meloni carried out post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and at Sandia National Laboratories. In his research, he employed state-of-the-art experimental and computational techniques, to study semiconductor clusters, van der Waals species, and hydrocarbon radicals. Dr. Meloni's interests range from high-temperature physical chemistry to spectroscopic characterization of reaction intermediates. More recently, his…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Neuroanatomy,
Neuropsychology,
Cognitive assessment
Molly Memel is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with a specialization in cognitive aging and neurodegenerative disorders. At USF, she teaches assessment courses in the clinical psychology doctoral program. This includes intellectual assessment, neuropsychological assessment, personality assessment, and the cognitive and affective bases of behavior.
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Child and Family Therapy,
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy,
Latinx Therapy,
LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
Gibrán Méndez, LMFT is an adjunct professor of counseling psychology. He holds licensure in marriage and family therapy from the Board of Behavioral Sciences and is the director of quality improvement at Stanford Sierra Youth and Families in Sacramento, Ca. During his work as a therapist, he provided community-based mental health services to youth from birth to 20 years of age and their families to reduce barriers and empower families to solve serious challenges together. He has a master’s…
Adjunct Professor
David Menéndez Álvarez earned his Doctorate in English Literature from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. His dissertation focused on Bay Area poetry, which he teaches in the CMPL program. He has been teaching Spanish at USF since 2007. He loves reading and discussing poetry. He also loves to play, study and listen to music from all cultures and eras. He has studied culture and language from Spain, U.S., Japan, China and France. David has published several translations of poetry into Spanish…
