Dr. Farchione directs a research program at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders that focuses on identifying higher-order, functional mechanisms associated with the development and maintenance of emotional disorders and the dissemination of improved psychological treatments for these disorders. Dr. Farchione is a co-developer of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP) and has substantially contributed to evaluating and refining the protocol since its inception. He has also published extensively on the UP and the nature and treatment of emotional disorders in general.