Pierre Nunez

Pierre Nunez, PhD is a Senior Adjunct Faculty member in the Masters in Applied Psychology Program Online at TCS. He was in the inaugural group of faculty members when the online program was introduced in 2008. He teaches Research Methods and other course titles in the MAP Program, and has served as an adjunct faculty member in graduate programs in psychology, educational counseling, and advanced practice nursing since 1993. He has taught course titles on thirty-six topics over the years.

Dr Nunez also serves as Chief Correctional Psychologist in the Mental Health Department of Cermak Health Services at Cook County Jail, where he is responsible for coordinating mental health services for individuals in custody at the jail. He oversees training for correctional and mental health staff, coordinates mortality review, and monitors clinical programming, use of force incidents, staff assaults, and all negative outcomes. Cook County Jail is the largest single-site pretrial detention facility in the U.S. Cermak is the largest provider of mental services in Illinois, and the third largest provider in the country.

Dr Nunez earned the masters degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978, and the doctorate from Northwestern University in 1991. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in emergency and crisis intervention services at Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Institute of Psychiatry, and served as a clinical faculty and psychology staff member there until 2000, when he accepted the position at Cermak to serve as Inpatient Unit Director. In 2020, Dr Nunez was the inaugural honoree of the Cook County Health iCare Award for collaborative service delivery. In 2023, he was named to the Mental Health Committee of the National Institute of Corrections, a Washington DC think tank focusing on mental health service delivery in corrections