WashU faculty members whose research and academic interests include a focus on children and youth

WashU faculty members: To add your name as a Network Member, contact us on-line or by email at ChildrenYouthNetwork@wustl.edu.

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Eunhye Ahn, PhD

Brown School

  • Child Maltreatment
  • Child and Family Support
  • Data Science in the Public Sector
  • AI/ML in Social Services

Susan Appleton, JD

Law School

  • Legal issues of family, sex, & gender
  • Feminist legal theory
  • Reproductive rights and justice
  • Inequality

Adrienne Atzemis, MD

Pediatrics

  • Child abuse
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Abusive head trauma
  • Child abuse pediatrics education

Wendy Auslander, PhD

Brown School

  • Health Behaviors and Promotion
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Intervention Research Methods

Dennis Barbour, MD, PhD

Biomedical Engineering

  • Machine learning methods for rapidly and thoroughly evaluating perception and cognition
  • Auditory processing
  • Medical informatics

Deanna Barch, PhD

Psychological & Brain Sciences

  • Effects of early adversity on early brain development and subsequent risk for mental health challenges
  • Cognitive, emotional and neural bases of risk for development of schizophrenia and depression

Abigail Barker, PhD

Brown School

  • Economic modeling
  • Food policy
  • Health insurance markets
  • Medicaid
  • Rural health policy

Kevin Black, MD

Psychiatry

  • Innovative brain imaging methods to study movement disorders including Tourette syndrome, effects of dopamine on the brain, and how the precise location of deep brain stimulation (DBS) contributes to its clinical effects

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD

Brown School

  • Black American Families
  • Race-Related Stress
  • Racial Justice in Learning Context
  • Risk & Resilience

Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD

Psychiatry

  • Mental health epidemiology
  • Understanding how policy and social media shape health risk behaviors of young people
  • Mobile app interventions that support individuals with mental health-related behaviors such as alcohol use, vaping, eating disorders, and depression

Yao Chen, PhD

Neuroscience

  • Altered neuromodulation in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders
  • Learning and sleep
  • Marbach-Schaaf Syndrome

Yixin Chen, PhD

Computer Science & Engineering

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Data mining
  • Optimization
  • Computational biomedicine

Joseph Dougherty, PhD

Genetics

  • Neurodevelopmental Disorder
  • Transcription Regulation
  • Translation Regulation
  • Behavior

Nikki Doughty

Institute for School Partnership

  • Student outcomes
  • Educational inequalities
  • Trauma-informed learning practices

Brett Drake, PhD

Brown School

  • Child maltreatment epidemiology
  • Child protection and child protective practice
  • Application of big data to social problems
  • Racial disproportionality