He was the Director of the UCLA Behavioral Medicine Clinic and Program, a training program for psychiatric residents and psychology interns for six years. His primary research focuses on the study of internal sustained and broadening of attention in anxiety and attention related disorders from a western cognitive psychology and neuroscience perspective, and at a secondary level he seeks to study how to translate these findings into computerized based treatment programs for anxiety and attention related disorders, as well as facilitate the understanding and practice of classical mindfulness.