Written by Dasani DelRosario and Ellie McAfee
The Grady Trauma Project was proud to have 19 team members—including principal investigators, postdocs, staff members, and interns—representing us at the 2024 Annual Anxiety and Depression Association of America Conference in Boston, MA, this April!
Our research was highlighted in five symposiums and talks. Former graduate student and current CDC ORISE Fellow, Dr. Meghna Ravi, presented her postdoctoral research in a symposium titled "From Menstrual Cycle-Related Hormone Fluctuations to Intersectional Risk Profiles in Pregnancy and Childbirth: Female Sex and Gender-Related Contributors to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."
Postdoctoral fellows Dr. Rebecca Lipschutz and Dr. Cecilia Hinojosa also showcased their research. Dr. Lipschutz discussed her graduate research in a symposium chaired by Dr. Vas Michopoulos titled "Impact of Prenatal Maternal Stress on Early Childhood Stress Reactivity and Psychopathology Risk: Harvey Mom Study." Dr. Hinojosa presented her work in the symposium "The Prospective Impact of Sex-Specific and Sex-Dependent Factors on Psychological Functioning After Trauma."
Dr. Negar Fani, director of the Fani Lab and Principal Investigator of the MIND study, shared new data in her symposium "Traumatic Stress and Accelerated Aging: Recent Approaches to Understanding the Biological Cost of Trauma and the Role of Protective Factors."
Finally, Dr. Vas Michopoulos presented data from the BUMPP study in a talk titled "Sex Effects in the Links Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Cardiometabolic Function."
In addition to these symposiums, our team presented 14 posters on various Grady Trauma Project datasets. For a full list of the posters and a link to the Poster Abstract Book containing all the abstracts from the poster sessions, please see below.
The success and hard work of our GTP lab members at the ADAA 2024 Annual Conference show their dedication to this community. We look forward to future contributions from our team and other opportunities to disseminate the important work occurring at the Grady Trauma Project.
Poster Presentations:
Amanda Arnold: “HIV Status and Menopause Status Interact to Impact PTSD Symptom Severity in Trauma-Exposed Women”
Madeline Davis: “Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Examine the Effect of Negative Affect on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Across the Menstrual Cycle in Black American Women”
Dasani DelRosario: “Alcohol Craving Across the Menstrual Cycle in Black American Women”
Merom Arthur: “Early Gestational Age is Associated With Birth-Related Maternal PTSD Symptoms in a Community Sample of Black Persons”
Donia Hassan: “The Association Between Menopause and Psychiatric Symptoms in Perimenopausal Black Women”
Kevin Hoffman: “Facial and Vocal Biomarkers of Emotional Expressivity in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder”
Alexa Kondas: “White matter correlates of dissociation within a large trauma-exposed female population”
Rebecca Lipschutz: “Postpartum Mental Health Symptoms are Related to Lower Maternal Functioning for Mothers to Care for Themselves but not Their Infant”
Ryan Langhinrichsen-Rohling: “Evaluating Participants’ Subjective Units of Distress in a TMS Clinical Trial for PTSD”
Elizabeth McAfee: “Disentangling the Association Between Worry Dysregulation and Anxiety in Black Children: The Role of Sex”
Timothy McDermott: “Mindfulness Training Reduces Anhedonia Symptoms in Trauma Exposed People with Elevated Dissociation and Modifies Relationships Between Neural Markers of Positive Salience”
Mariana Rocha: “Childhood Maltreatment is Associated With First-Trimester Heart Rate Variability in a Community Sample of Pregnant Black Persons”
Sriya Karra: “Interactive Effects of Racism-Related Stress and Maternal Functioning on Postpartum PTSD Symptoms in Black Mothers”
Jamie Villalobos: “Exploring Breastfeeding, Trauma, and Stress on Maternal Mental Health in Black Postpartum Individuals”
ADAA 2024 Poster Abstract Book: https://www.jmoodanxdisorders.org/pb-assets/Health%20Advance/journals/xjmad/ADAA_2024_Poster_Abstract_Book-1710361376423.pdf
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