Dr. Ty Brumback
Associate Professor, School of Psychology
Ty Brumback Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who joined the faculty at Xavier in 2024. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Florida and completed his clinical internship training through the Boston Consortium for Clinical Psychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System/Harvard Medical School before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California San Diego in the Department of Psychiatry. While UCSD, Dr. Brumback completed the VA Interprofessional Fellowship for Addiction Treatment in which he conducted research and treatment with veterans suffering from PTSD and substance use issues. His research focuses on factors that influence the initiation and escalation of drinking in adolescents and young adults, ranging from acute effects of alcohol consumption to cognitive and neurodevelopmental features associated with risky drinking. His current research explores the relations among cardiovascular factors, brain structure and function, and alcohol use and has been supported through NIH-funded grants and fellowships. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in addition to several book chapters.