
HBCD Site Principal Investigators

Ashley Acheson, PhD
Principal InvestigatorArkansas Children’s Research Institute

Ludmila N. Bakhireva, MD, PhD, MPH
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of New Mexico Health and Health Sciences

Gretchen Bandoli, PhD, MPH, MBA
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of California, San Diego Health

Martha Ann Bell, PhD
Principal InvestigatorVirginia Tech

Obianuju Berry, MD
Principal InvestigatorNYU Langone Health

Ryan Bogdan, PhD
Principal InvestigatorWashington University in St. Louis

Claire Coles, PhD
Principal InvestigatorEmory University

Julie M. Croff, PhD, MPH, FAAHB
Principal InvestigatorOklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences

Laurie Cutting, PhD
Principal InvestigatorVanderbilt University

Doug Dean, III, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Sara B. DeMauro, MD, MSCE
Principal InvestigatorChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Michelle Bosquet Enlow, PhD
Principal InvestigatorBoston Children’s Hospital

Nathan Fox, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Sheila Gahagan, MD, MPH
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of California, San Diego Health

Wei Gao, PhD
Principal InvestigatorCedars-Sinai Medical Center

Hugh Garavan, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Vermont

Michael K. Georgieff, MD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Minnesota

Alice Graham, PhD
Principal InvestigatorOregon Health & Science University

P. Ellen Grant, MD
Principal InvestigatorBoston Children’s Hospital

Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH
Principal InvestigatorCedars-Sinai Medical Center

Karen Grewen, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Matthew Gurka, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Florida

Kelly Gurka, PhD, MPH
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Florida

Brenda Jones Harden, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD
Principal InvestigatorOklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences

Kathy Hosig, PhD, MPH, RD
Principal InvestigatorVirginia Tech

Brittany Howell, PhD
Principal InvestigatorVirginia Tech

Hao Huang, PhD
Principal InvestigatorChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Scott Johnson, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUCLA

Julie Kable, PhD
Principal InvestigatorEmory University

Lawrence Leeman, MD, MPH
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of New Mexico Health and Health Sciences

Pat Levitt, PhD
Principal InvestigatorChildren’s Hospital Los Angeles

Weili Lin, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lorraine McKelvey, PhD
Principal InvestigatorArkansas Children’s Research Institute

Stephanie Merhar, MD, MS
Principal InvestigatorCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Amanda Morris, PhD
Principal InvestigatorOklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences

Bonnie Nagel, PhD
Principal InvestigatorOregon Health & Science University

Sharlene D. Newman, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham

Cassandra Newsom, PsyD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham

Elizabeth Norton, PhD
Principal InvestigatorNorthwestern University

Sarah Osmundson, MD, MS
Principal InvestigatorVanderbilt University

Xiawei Ou, PhD
Principal InvestigatorArkansas Children’s Research Institute

James Pekar, PhD
Principal InvestigatorJohns Hopkins University
and Kennedy Krieger Institute

Myriam Peralta-Carcelen, MD, MPH
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham

Koraly Pérez-Edgar, PhD
Principal InvestigatorPenn State University

Julie Poehlmann, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Alexandra Potter, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Vermont

Tracy Riggins, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Cynthia Rogers, MD
Principal InvestigatorWashington University in St. Louis

Andrew Satin, MD
Principal InvestigatorJohns Hopkins University
and Kennedy Krieger Institute

Lisa Scott, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Florida

Lauren Shuffrey, PhD
Principal InvestigatorNYU Langone Health

Lynne Smith, MD
Principal InvestigatorUCLA

Beth A. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD
Principal InvestigatorChildren’s Hospital Los Angeles

Elinor L. Sullivan, PhD
Principal InvestigatorOregon Health & Science University

Moriah Thomason, PhD
Principal InvestigatorNYU Langone Health

Jennifer Vannest, PhD
Principal InvestigatorCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Heather E. Volk, PhD
Principal InvestigatorJohns Hopkins University
and Kennedy Krieger Institute

Lauren Wakschlag, PhD
Principal InvestigatorNorthwestern University

Sylia Wilson, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Minnesota

Jessica Wisnowski, PhD
Principal InvestigatorChildren’s Hospital Los Angeles

Lea Yerby, PhD
Principal InvestigatorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham

Aleksandra Zgierska, MD, PhD
Principal InvestigatorPenn State University
