Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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2018 - Present
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry,
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Recent Publications
Everyday Discrimination and Adolescents’ Mental Health: Evidence From an Ecological Momentary Assessment
Journal Article Journal of Early Adolescence · January 1, 2026 Adolescents who report discrimination experience worse mental health. However, most research has been cross-sectional and retrospective. This study investigated how prospectively-assessed day-to-day perceptions of everyday discrimination relate to mental h ... Full text CiteContinuous Versus Grouping Approaches to Resilience: Predicting Mental Health Following Adversity in Two Longitudinal Datasets
Journal Article JAACAP Open · January 2026 Full text CiteCell type-specific methylome-wide association studies of childhood ADHD symptoms.
Journal Article Eur Neuropsychopharmacol · December 2025 Studying DNA methylation (DNAm) can provide insights into gene-regulatory mechanisms underlying attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). While most DNAm studies were performed in bulk tissue, this study used statistical deconvolution to identify ce ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Gun Sales: Comparative effectiveness of different minimum age standards for firearm purchase by adults with youthful crime records in North Carolina, Florida, and Virgin
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by New Venture Fund · 2018 - 2022Developmental methylomics of childhood trauma and its health consequences
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Virginia Commonwealth University · 2014 - 2018Diseases of Despair in Young Adulthood: Risk, Resilience, and Prevention
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2018View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Vermont ·
2003
Ph.D.