Dr. Hirsch's Biography:

Dr. Hirsch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at East Tennessee State University. He is the Director of the Laboratory of Rural Psychological and Physical Health, and the Project Director of the ETSU PEAKS Campus Suicide Prevention Project.

Dr. Hirsch received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Wyoming (2003). Dr. Hirsch completed his clinical internship at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Syracuse, New York (2002-2003), and was awarded an NIMH NRSA Research Fellowship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide (2003-2006). In 2006-2007, Dr. Hirsch was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology. He maintains a research appointment at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry.