Yale Child Study Center (YCSC)—which serves as the Department of Child Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine—welcomes and introduces new community members on an on-going basis. All new faculty, staff, and trainees are invited to share bios and photos upon joining the department, and those who wish to participate are announced approximately monthly.
In addition to the many new trainees to the department over the summer, several new postgraduate associates joined YCSC over the last few months, along with some new faculty members. Two of the department’s newest community members stepped forward to introduce themselves this September. Elizabeth Baker, PhD, a new assistant professor of child psychology, and William Trosch Jr., BS, who joined the Before and After Baby Lab (BABL) as a postgraduate associate this month.
Baker specializes in the assessment of neurodevelopmental differences, with a focus on autism. She completes multi-disciplinary diagnostic evaluations in the Developmental Disabilities Clinic and provides clinical characterization for research studies in the McPartland Lab. Her research has focused on neural correlates of social reward, adaptive behavior, and cultural considerations in intervention and assessment.
Baker received her doctoral degree in school psychology from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship at the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland School of Medicine in the school mental health track, with a focus on trauma-informed intervention and strategies. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia in the Sheila C. Johnson Center for Clinical Services, with a focus on differential diagnosis and multidisciplinary care.
Trosch recently graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience. At BABL, he is contributing to work related to understanding how addiction and stress can impact the transition to motherhood. He shared that he is excited to be a part of research that directly interacts with the community and could potentially translate directly into improving the standard of care.