Biography
Francisco Ramos is an incoming doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at the University of Memphis, working with Dr. M. David Rudd. He earned his B.A. in Psychology and Economics from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2022. Before graduate school, Francisco worked as the lab manager of Dr. Iony Ezawa's Depression Treatment Lab at USC, where he coordinated randomized controlled trials investigating digital and cognitive-behavioral interventions for depression and mechanisms of therapeutic change in depression treatment. His research interests center on suicide prevention with a focus on using intensive longitudinal data and computational methods to understand short-term fluctuations in suicidal ideation, improve clinical decisionmaking, and inform the development of brief suicide-specific interventions.
Research
Publications:
Rudd, M. D., Kratholm, O., Gleason, V. L., Pérez-Muñoz, A., & Ramos, F. N. (under review). Differentiating crisis response planning from the safety planning intervention: Implications for clinical care with suicidal and non-suicidal individuals.
Ramos, F. N., Bernstein, R. A., & Ezawa, I. D. (2024). Assessing predictive factors of attitudes toward peer-supported mental health interventions in the metaverse: mixed-methods study. JMIR XR and Spatial Computing, 1(e57990). https://doi.org/10.2196/57990
Dao, A., Bernstein, R. A., Ramos, F. N., Beasley, B., & Ezawa, I. D. (2025). Unpacking the chain of change in group CBT and ACT for depression: A protocol for a randomized clinical trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 107907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2025.107907
Robinson, N., Ramos, F. N., Hollon, S. D., Han, G. T., & Ezawa, I. D. (2025). Cognitive Behavioral Immersion for depression: Protocol for a three-arm randomized controlled trial of peer-based coaching in the metaverse. JMIR Research Protocols, 14(e65970). https://doi.org/10.2196/65970
Zhang, G., Ramos, F. N., Yue, H., & Lai, M. H. C. (in preparation). Gender differences in the measurement of depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of measurement invariance in the CES-D scale.
Ezawa, I. D., Ramos, F. N., Hollon, S. D., Han, G. T., & Robinson, N. (under review). Virtual reality vs flat-screen delivery of cognitive-behavioral coaching for depression in the metaverse: A three-arm randomized controlled trial.
Presentations:
Fernández González, B., Martínez Abella, A., García Villalobos, I., Martínez Andreu, B., Garcés Carretero, I., Cuesta Matía, I., & Ramos, F. N. (2025, April). Estimated consumption of psychoactive substances in a group of chronic psychotics. Poster presented at the 33rd European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Congress, Madrid, Spain.
Fernández González, B., García Villalobos, I., Martínez Andreu, B., Martínez Abella, A., Ramos, F. N., Garcés Carretero, I., & Cuesta Matía, I. (2025, April). Cognitive functioning in addictive patients’ treatment with NAP. Poster presented at the 33rd European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Congress, Madrid, Spain.
Dao, A., Bernstein, R. A., Ramos, F. N., & Ezawa, I. D. (2024, November). Reward responsiveness as a mediator of treatment outcomes in CBT and ACT: An ecological momentary study. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Martínez Gallardo, R., Martínez Abella, A., García Villalobos, I., Fernández González, B., Valiente Peña, B., Martínez Andreu, B., Sanz García, C., Palomar Ciria, N., & Ramos, F. N. (2024, November). Clinical improvement in a sample of patients referred to an active rehabilitation program. Presented at the 24th World Congress of Psychiatry, Mexico City.
Ramos, F. N., Martínez Gallardo, R., Bernstein, R. A., Ezawa, I. D., Valiente Peña, B., García Villalobos, I., Cuesta Matía, I., Fernández González, B., & Martínez Abella, A. (2024, September). Assessing attitudes and predictive factors toward peer-supported mental health interventions in the metaverse. Poster presented at the 34th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress, Milan, Italy.
Ramos, F. N., Bernstein, R. A., & Ezawa, I. D. (2024, June). Assessing predictive factors of attitudes toward peer-supported mental health interventions in the metaverse. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Convention of the Society of Digital Mental Health.
Ramos, F. N., Bernstein, R. A., & Ezawa, I. D. (2024, June). Assessing predictive factors of attitudes toward peer-supported mental health interventions in the metaverse. Poster presented online at the 55th Annual Convention of the Society of Psychotherapy Research, Ottawa, Canada.
Dao, A., Bernstein, R. A., Ramos, F. N., & Ezawa, I. D. (2024, May). Reward responsiveness as a mediator of treatment outcomes in CBT and ACT: An ecological momentary study. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Ramos, F. N., Bernstein, R. A., & Ezawa, I. D. (2023, November). Assessing attitudes and predictive factors toward peer-supported mental health interventions in the metaverse. Poster presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, Washington.