Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)

Overview

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences. I received my PhD in Developmental Science from Boston University in 2016 and completed a postdoctoral training program at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University (2019). I am PI of a K01 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and a pilot project funded by Brown’s Center for Addiction Disease Risk Exacerbation.

I study the parent-child dyad across two sensitive developmental periods: perinatal and adolescent. Ongoing studies explore: 1) the etiology and treatment of perinatal substance use; 2) the generational transmission of risk associated with parental substance use and mental health; and 3) parenting and parent-child relationship quality.

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