Penn Athletics’ Liz Nobis Talks Mental Health Culture Shift

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When the University of Pennsylvania searched for the first-ever mental health professional to serve its athletic department, it didn’t have to look far. Liz Nobis, a newly minted clinical psychology Ph.D. from Biola University in Los Angeles, was already working since August in Penn’s postdoc program as a member of its student counseling team. AB senior editor Paul Steinbach asked Nobis about the sharpened focus on athlete mental health nationwide and how she views her new responsibility of working exclusively with Quaker student-athletes.

Why now? Was there specific impetus for Penn wanting to create this position?

That is probably not a question I know the full answer to, but I can certainly express that it’s been a position that has been desired for quite some time, and that they have been wanting someone to be able to work specifically within the athletic setting to try to prioritize the importance of mental health in conjunction with the importance of physical health, and try to change things in the system.

At what point in your life did you feel psychology was a point of particular interest for you and maybe a viable career path?

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