Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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2023 - Present
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry,
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
Psychotropic Medication Use Among Children in Foster Care with Placement Instability: A Statewide Retrospective Analysis
Journal article JAACAP Connect · March 20, 2026 This statewide retrospective analysis investigates the prevalence and patterns of high-risk psychotropic medication prescribing among children in foster care with placement instability. With 236 cases examined between June 2022 and June 2023, the s ... Full text CiteLinking Electronic Health Record Prescribing Data and Pharmacy Dispensing Records to Identify Patient-Level Factors Associated With Psychotropic Medication Receipt: Retrospective Study.
Journal article JMIR Med Inform · March 4, 2025 BACKGROUND: Pharmacoepidemiology studies using electronic health record (EHR) data typically rely on medication prescriptions to determine which patients have received a medication. However, such data do not affirmatively indicate whether these prescriptio ... Full text Link to item CiteTopical review: sleep regulation as a novel target for treating preschool-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms.
Journal article J Pediatr Psychol · March 1, 2025 OBJECTIVE: Elevated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in preschoolers are a risk factor for poorer psychiatric health, cognitive deficits, and social and academic impairment across the lifespan. The first-line treatment for these pre ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
NC PAL Expansion
Public ServicePsychologist · Awarded by NC DHHS · 2022 - 2027Preschool Attention and Sleep Support (PASS): A Telehealth Intervention for Children at Risk for ADHD
ResearchPsychologist · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2023 - 2027Decreasing Health Disparities: Data Colllection and Analysis
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust · 2021 - 2023View All Grants
Education
American University ·
2020
Ph.D.