Research Interests
Neurodevelopment in early childhood, perinatal mental health, infant mental health, early life stress, prenatal substance exposure, emotion dysregulation, epigenetics
Selected Grants
Duke-NCCU Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Child Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Program (DN-IPT)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2029Duke University Psychiatry Physician-Scientist Residency Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2029Prenatal maternal obesity and neurodevelopment: The mediating role of the microbiome and metabolome
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2029Identifying risk earlier: Prenatal exposures, neurodevelopment, and infant sleep as pathways to toddler behavior dysregulation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Oregon · 2023 - 2028Biomarkers for neuromodulation and behavioral interventions
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health · 2026 - 2028Promoting Perinatal Mental Health Equity in Durham Through a Community Based Preventive Intervention
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Duke Endowment · 2025 - 2027Advancing understanding of racism-related health disparities beginning before birth: A multisite study with Black and Latina pregnant women
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Georgia State University · 2022 - 2027Emotion regulation skills training to reduce emotion dysregulation in parent and child
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2025 - 2027Characterizing early signs of neurobehavioral dysregulation in infants at increased risk for behavioral disorders
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026Clinical Markers of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: Onset, Severity and Longitudinal Neurodevelopmental Outcome
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Women & Infants Hospital · 2022 - 2026EMOTION DYSREGULATION ACROSS GENERATIONS: IDENTIFYING EARLY DEVELOPMENTAL AND CLINICAL INDICATORS OF RISK
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Utah · 2022 - 2025A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF MATERNAL SELF-INJURIOUS THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS AT THE PERINATAL TRANSITION
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Utah · 2022 - 2023External Relationships
- American Psychological Association
- National Institute of Health (NIH)
- Society for Research in Child Development
- University of Oregon
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