Dr. Adriana Uruena-Agnes earned her Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience with a concentration in neuropsychopharmacology from University of South Florida Tampa in December of 2014.  Dr. Agnes joined SPC Downtown/Midtown in Fall 2015 as Assistant Professor.  In addition, she also serves as the faculty advisor for the Psychology Club and Intervarsity at the Downtown/Midtown campuses.  Furthermore, Dr. Agnes recently was awarded a grant to purchase an EEG system and 5 Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) student training and certification programs.  These opportunitied have established the Human Neurophysiology student research internship program, which she is the coordinator and director of at SPC Downtown/Midtown.  Under Dr. Agnes' supervision, students learn the basic principles of EEG and QEEG in conducting human neurophysiology scholarly research at SPC.  In addition, Sr. Agnes is the program director for the SPC-USF Rothman Pediatric Neuropsychiatry Clinical Research Internship Program.

Dr. Agnes is the course professor for General Psychology (PSY 1012), General Psychology Honors (PSY1012H), Developmental Psychology (DEP 2004), Abnormal Psychology (CLP 2140) and Social Psychology (SOP 2002) at SPC Downtown/Midtown.  In addition to these courses, Dr. Agnes has taught the following: Drugs and Behavior (Introduction to Psychopharmacology; online and face-to-face), Physiological Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience; online), Psychology of Learning, Tests and Measurements (online and face-to-face), and Research Methods (Laboratory Component). 

Research interests include neural mechanisms associated with alcohol and cocaine polysubstance abuse and measuring neurodiversity in college students.  Materials for Dr. Agnes' neurodiversity research and QEEG training certification program are funded from two Titan Achievement Award grants.  In addition, she is developing an interdisciplinary grant to pursue federal funding. Dr. Agnes has been published in Psychpharmacology and is currently working on publishing her work on polysubstance abuse.  

Previous clinical experience includes adult program supervisor and addiction prevention specialist at Mental Health Care Inc (Tampa) and DACCO (Tampa), respectively.