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    Hanna Stevens, MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
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    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

    Biography

    Hanna Stevens joined the faculty of the Child Study Center in 2010. She is currently directing a program of research on model systems of early brain development. She is particularly interested in the impact of prenatal genetic and environmental factors on childhood behavioral problems and how early events in brain development relate to the onset of major mental illness, such as depression and schizophrenia, in adolescence and adulthood. The long term goals of her research program are to better understand the etiologies of child and adult mental illnesses and to improve outcomes for pregnant mothers affected by mood and anxiety disorders.

    Dr. Stevens is also the associate training director of the Child Study Center's innovative psychiatry residency program. The Solnit Integrated Program provides psychiatrists-in-training with the opportunity to integrate general, child and research psychiatry across all stages of their career and will be a major pathway by which the next generation of academic leaders in child psychiatry are developed. See link below

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    Education & Training

    Psychiatry Residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
    Yale School of Medicine (2010)
    MD
    University of Illinois (2004)
    PhD
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Neuroscience (2003)

    Research

    Overview

    Prenatal stress and forebrain development

    Growth factors and prenatal stress

    Role of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 in forebrain functioning

    Medical Research Interests

    Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Child Psychiatry; Neurobiology

    Public Health Interests

    Child/Adolescent Health

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Hanna Stevens's published research.

    Publications

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      Solnit Integrated Residency Program

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      Yale Child Study Center

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      Department of Psychiatry

    • honor

      Young Investigator Memorial Travel Award

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      Robinson-Cunningham Award

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