Richard Yeager

Post-Secondary Education

Texas Christian University
Doctor of Philosophy
Psychology

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of Psychology                                                                           August 2009 - Present

                              Texas A & M University-Central Texas

                              Department of Psychology and Counseling

                              Killeen, TX

Adjunct Professor of Psychology                                                                                August 2004 – Present

                              Austin Community College

                              Department of Behavioral Sciences

Instructor                                                                                                                             Fall 1998- Spring 1999

                              Department of Psychology

                              Division of Business and Sciences

                              Tarrant County Junior College-NW Campus

                              Fort Worth, TX

Lecturer I and II                                                                                                                  Summer 1996-Spring 1998

               School of Human Development

               University of Texas at Dallas

               Richardson, TX

Lecturer II                                                                                                                         Fall 1997

                              School of Undergraduate Studies

                              University of Texas at Dallas

                              Richardson, TX

                              (Taught courses in Rhetoric)

Instructor                                                                                        Spring 1996

                              Department of Psychology

                              AddRan College of Arts and Sciences

                              Texas Christian University

                              Fort Worth, TX

Instructor                                                                                        Spring 1996

                              Department of Psychology

                              Division of Science and Business

                              Tarrant County Junior College, NW Campus

                              Fort Worth, TX

               Instructor                                                                                        1995-1996

                              Department of Educational Foundations and Administration

                              School of Education

                              Texas Christian University

                              Fort Worth, TX

Professional Publications

Presentations

Kershaw, D., Shehan, D., Freeman, A., Melville, S. K., & Yeager, R. K.  (2004).  An introduction to the health information survey for men who have sex with men.  Presentation at the 14^th Texas HIV/STD conference.  Austin, TX, December, 2004.

Yeager, R. K. & Melville, S. K.  (2004).  Pediatric HIV:  The pediatric spectrum of disease project in Texas.  Presentation at the 14^th Texas HIV/STD Conference.  Austin, TX, 2004.

Yeager, R. K. & Melville, S. K.  (2004).  HIV in children of foreign born mothers:  Analyses from the pediatric spectrum of disease project.  Presentation at the 14^th Texas HIV/STD Conference.  Austin, TX, 2004.

Yeager, R. K., Melville, S. K., Kershaw, D., & Shehan, D.  (2006).  HIV risk behaviors in injecting drug users in DFW.  Presentation at the 15^th Texas HIV/STD conference.  Austin, TX, 2006.

Kershaw, D., Shehan, D., Freeman, A. C., Melville, S. K., & Yeager, R. K.  (2006).  Accessing hidden populations:  Respondent driven sampling – A tool serving prevention.  Presentation at the 15^th Texas HIV/STD conference.  Austin, TX, 2006.

Kershaw, D., Shehan, D., Freeman, A. C., Melville, S. K., & Yeager, R. K. (2006).  Implementing respondent driven sampling in a large and diverse geographical area:  Lessons learned in Dallas, Texas.  Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.  Washington, D.C., 2006.

Kershaw, D., Shehan, D., Arbona, S., Freeman, A. C., Melville, S. K.,  & Yeager, R. K.  (2007).  Implementing respondent driven sampling to reach injecting drug users in two Texas cities:  Lessoned learned.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Annul HIV Prevention Conference.  Atlanta, GA, 2007.

Sayegh, M. A., Melville, S. K., Yeager, R. K., Novoa, A.  (2008).  The Agreement between Minority Women Perceptions and Male Patterns Report Sexual Behaviors Poster presented at the Women and HIV International Clinical Conference.  Dallas.  April, 2008.

Yeager, R. K., Melville, S. K., Novoa, A., & Dyer, J.  (2008).  Behavioral Surveillance of Heterosexuals at Risk in DFW:  NHBS System.  Poster presented at the 16^th Texas HIV/STD Conference.  Austin, TX.  May, 2008.

Yeager, R. K., Melville, S. K., Shehan, D., and Poe, J.  (2008).  Behavioral Surveillance among Internet-Using Men Who Have Sex with Men: The Web-based HIV Behavioral Surveillance Project in Texas.  Presented at the 16^th Texas HIV/STD Conference.  Austin, TX.  May, 2008.

Yeager, R. K., Melville, S. K., Novoa, A., & Dyer, J.  (2008).  Defining Heterosexuals at Risk for HIV Infection:  Who do we include in research and behavioral surveillance?  Roundtable at the 16^th Texas HIV/STD Conference.  Austin, TX.  May, 2008.

Myles, R., Artstein, M. Y., Dean, H. D., Bohannon, B., Melville, S. K., Yeager, R. K., Wheeling, J. T., Dominguez, K.  (2010) Missed Prevention Opportunities in Foreign-born and U.S.-born HIV-infected Black Mothers and their Infants, United States, 1995-2004.  Paper to be presented at the 138^th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association,  Denver, CO.