Should I contact POI(s) before interview?

[psychdocstudent]

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I was invited to an interview for a doctoral clinical program.
I contacted one POI before applying and received no response. I applied anyway.
Now I am not sure who I will be interviewing with. I listed three names in my personal statement and some brief interest areas.
I would like to email or call one POI and ask him his current research areas, etc, so that I have a better clue.
By now I have no way of knowing who actually invited me to the interview as I was called by the program director. Since this is one of my top choices I wanted to prepare a more tailored interview. However, I am afraid that even if I listed him first, it may not be him who invited me to interview. And what if he continues to ignore my emails?
I know that it is a little weird situation but any advice would be appreciated.

 

[AcronymAllergy]

I'd personally try finding out from the program director, as he/she is the one who contacted you. If that didn't work out, I might simply prepare ahead of time for all three faculty members. Interviews typically don't last longer than 30-45 minutes (up to maybe an hour, max), and it'll be good practice for when you have to prepare yourself for multiple faculty interviews during the internship and post-doc application cycles.

As an added bonus, if you end up interviewing with faculty member A, and in your preparations learned that faculty members B and C have specific research areas/projects you'd be interested in, you could potentially bring those up and ask about the possibilities for inter-lab collaboration while meeting with member A.

 

[PsychPhDone]

I'd contact the area secretary. They tend to know everything.