Research Interests
My research focuses on the role of sleep disturbances in the onset and maintenance of psychiatric and behavioral disorders in childhood and adolescence. Specifically, I am interested in how sleep problems may contribute to increased psychiatric symptoms, difficulties with cognition, and reduced functioning for youth with ADHD. I hope my research will help to identify children at risk for sleep problems and psychiatric conditions and lead to developing more effective prevention and treatment strategies.
Selected Grants
Advancing Identification of Circadian Delay in ADHD Youth: Associations with Clinical Heterogeneity and Cognition
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2029Preschool Attention and Sleep Support (PASS): A Telehealth Intervention for Children at Risk for ADHD
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2023 - 2027Sustainable Habits for Encouraging Even Teen Sleep (SHEETS): A Digital Intervention to Enhance Sleep Regularity and Psychiatric Health in Adolescents
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2022 - 2026Effects of prenatal maternal depression and antidepressant exposures on offspring neurodevelopmental trajectories: A birth cohort study
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. · 2021 - 2026Sleep Dysfunction and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Adolescent ADHD
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022Behavioral and genetic mechanisms of smoking risk in individuals with ADHD
ResearchPsychologist · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2018External Relationships
- Duke -National Univeristy of Singapore
- Rutgers University
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