Research Interests:

• Psychological and Physiological Resilience
• Neurobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Mindfulness- and Compassion based Interventions for Mood and Trauma-related Disorders
• Neurobiological mechanisms of Psychotherapy (Exposure- and Mindfulness-based)
• Neuroimaging and large-scale neural network connectivity
• Neural, psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), and psychoneuroendocrinology (PNE) effects of trauma exposure, childhood adversity, early-life poverty, and racial discrimination

Education

• PhD Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan
• MS Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University
• PhD Clinical Psychology, Fielding Graduate University