Developmental Psychiatry Research Group

•  PhD Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina
• Emphasis in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
• I am interested in very early brain development and how it is related to later developmental outcomes
• I currently have received a grant to study eye tracking in infants.
• I have been employed in this lab since 2001 when I began as a post-doctoral fellow
• (303) 724-6201
• Email Sharon Hunter

Kate Hanna, MSW

• Masters of Social Work: 2001, Boston College
• M.S.W. Internship at The Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Pediatrics
• 2002, Post-M.S.W. Fellowship in Outpatient Psychiatry, The Children’s Hospital Boston
• Clinical Social Worker; 2002-2005, The Children’s Hospital Heart Institute, The Children’s Hospital Denver
• I conduct structured clinical interviews with children and adults and work with referred clients who may have child onset schizophrenia and children with possible mood disorders, disruptive behavioral disorders, and ADHD.
• I manage the Psychiatry Scholars program.
• I have worked in this lab since 2005.
• (303) 724-6202
• Email Kate Hanna

           Julie Beuler, BA, ASN

• A.S.N.: 2006, Denver School of Nursing
• B.S.: 1997, Psychology, University of Montana
• I recruit and manage study subjects through Denver Health Medical Center, Department of OB/GYN.
• I recruit and manage subjects with and without mental illness in the Choline during Pregnancy Study which looks at fetal brain development after supplementing choline during pregnancy.
• I also manage and recruit subjects for the Maternal Depression Study.
• I counsel pregnant women who smoke and encourage cessation and recruit and manage subjects for the choline during pregnancy study.
• I have worked in this lab since 2005.
• (303) 724-6205
• Email Julie Beuler 

                Therese Jones, BA

•  BA: 2010, Psychology/Biology, University of Colorado Denver
• Previously, I worked in research focusing on stress levels in children.
• I conduct physiological testing including EEG recordings and PPI recordings on infants, recruit and schedule for the infant studies, and work at Denver Health on the Maternal Depression study.
• In the future, I would either like to go to medical school or veterinary school.
• I have worked in the lab since April 2012.
• (303) 724-6206
• (303) 724-6017
• Email Therese Jones