Current Duke 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 Scholarly Works
A large-scale meta-analysis of DNA methylation signatures of alcohol use disorder in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
Journal article Nature Mental Health · July 1, 2026 Despite extensive research on DNA methylation signatures associated with alcohol use disorder (AUD), findings are often inconsistent. Here we conducted a large-scale meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies (EWASs) to identify reliable, reproduc ... Full text CiteGenome-wide meta-analysis of quantitatively measured generalized anxiety symptoms in individuals of European ancestry.
Journal article Nat Hum Behav · June 9, 2026 Anxiety is heritable and exists on a continuum, with symptoms ranging from adaptive threat response to clinical disorder. Here we performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of generalized anxiety symptom severity in 693,869 individuals of European a ... Full text Link to item CiteContinuous Versus Grouping Approaches to Resilience: Predicting Mental Health Following Adversity in Two Longitudinal Datasets.
Journal article JAACAP Open · June 2026 OBJECTIVE: Resilience in psychiatry is often defined as the absence of psychopathology following early adversity. Resilience may be better operationalized as a continuous construct reflecting the degree to which individuals are functioning better than woul ... 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
University of Vermont ·
2003
Ph.D.