Copy of Research — The Nathaniel Wharton Fund

Principal Investigators

Richard Sloan, PhDRichard Sloan, PhD, is the Nathaniel Wharton Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. — **Richard Sloan, PhD**
Richard Sloan, PhD, is the Nathaniel Wharton Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Catherine Monk, PhDCatherine Monk, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Research Scientist VI at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. — **Catherine Monk, PhD**
Catherine Monk, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Research Scientist VI at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Martin Picard, PhDMartin Picard, PhD is the Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry and Neurology). — **Martin Picard, PhD**
Martin Picard, PhD is the Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry and Neurology).

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Research Staff

Sloan Lab

Kathleen McIntyre,
LCSW

Instructor in Psychiatric Social Work (in Psychiatry)

Vincenzo Lauriola

Senior Staff Associate

Picard Lab

Caroline TRumpff, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Kalpita Karan, PhD.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Perinatal Pathways Lab

We conduct research studies with pregnant women and their babies to improve their well–being and their future children’s lives.

For over 20 years, we have contributed to the scientific evidence showing that when pregnant women experience stress, anxiety, and depression, it affects them as well as their offspring in utero. There is a ‘third pathway’ for the familial inheritance of risk for psychiatric illness beyond shared genes and the quality of parental care: the impact of pregnant women’s distress on fetal and infant brain–behavior development. Our projects involve fetal assessment, newborn neuroimaging, genetics, epigenetics, psychoneuroimmunology, mother–child interaction, and supportive interventions to (1) characterize maternal experiences and the effects on children’s development and (2) promote maternal psychobiological health for the mother–child dyad.

Spann Lab