Collaborators
Dr. Elisabeth Conradt
Dr. Elisabeth Conradt is an associate professor in in Psychiatry, and adjunct associate professor of Pediatrics at Duke University. She received her PhD in clinical psychology in 2011 from the University of Oregon, where she worked with Jennifer Ablow and Jeff Measelle. Liz then trained with Barry Lester while on an NRSA-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. Her current scientific focus is to better understand the intergenerational transmission of risk for mental health problems. Her lab documents how exposures the pregnant person had throughout the lifespan can impact the pregnancy, preterm birth risk, newborn neurodevelopment, and susceptibility for psychopathology.
Dr. Lee Raby
Dr. Lee Raby’s research focuses on longstanding questions regarding the significance of early parent-child relationship experiences. He is interested in understanding (a) the degree to which various early caregiving experiences predict individuals’ social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning during childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood as well as (b) the representational and physiological processes that may account for these enduring effects. The two-fold goal of this work is to deepen our understanding of the interplay of children’s genetically based characteristics and environmental experiences while simultaneously providing information about how parent-child relationship experiences can promote the healthy development of these at-risk children.
Dr. Sierra Carter
Dr. Sierra Carter’s primary area of research focuses on racial health disparities and investigating how psychosocial and contextual stressors can affect both mental and physical health outcomes for underrepresented populations, with an emphasis on African American populations. A common theme throughout much of her work has been examining how racial discrimination, as an acute and chronic stressor, effects development and exacerbation of chronic illnesses and stress-related disorders across the life course. Dr. Carter integrates clinical, physiological, and biobehavioral measurement in her research to aid in improved identification of mechanisms that can be targeted in prevention and treatment efforts to reduce racial health disparities.
Dr. Maureen Zalewski
Dr. Maureen Zalewski studies how child development and parenting is impacted by having a parent who struggles with mental health issues. Her work has included studies of parents who struggle with disorders rooted in emotion dysregulation (ex. borderline personality disorder, substance use). Dr. Zalewski is formally trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an evidence based approach to treating individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and other disorders involving high emotional dysregulation.
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Kira Wright
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Lydia Brown
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Nicole Froidevaux
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Madeleine Bruce
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Parisa Kaliush
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Anna Zhou
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Marilynn Lape Santana
