Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine

George Tolomiczenko has experience as a Clinician, Researcher, Teacher and Administrator, which helps him in his Administrative Director role to guide and run the Health, Technology and Engineering program at USC (HTE@USC). After an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree at Caltech, he earned a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Boston University. As both a Scientist and Clinician working at medical institutions affiliated with Harvard University, his focus shifted to public health and policy issues involving homelessness and mental illness. In Toronto, his efforts were devoted to creating and funding programs and partnerships enabling disease-focused basic research, knowledge translation and adapting chronic disease models. He is now focused on developing USC’s interdisciplinary collaborative strengths applied to medical device and process innovation. He teaches courses designed to form and train teams linking engineering and medicine to create innovative and licensed technology and start-up companies.