Mom and baby’s second ACNP! Thanks for the return travel awardee funding #ACNP2026! @acnporg.bsky.social

My doctoral work focused on sex/gender differences in alcohol use. I am interested in repro and addiction psych clinically and will be applying to research track psychiatry residency programs this Fall!! 😎

Hi #ACNP2026! I am a 7th year MD/PhD student at UMN and honored to have received the Past Travel Awardee Funding. Check out my poster on prenatal alcohol use on Thursday TH236.

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We used machine learning to rank which social and neurobehavioral risk factors are linked to non-prescribed opioid use in young adults - the top ranked psychological variable predicting opioid use was higher loneliness! rdcu.be/eXFB8

with @andreammax.bsky.social

See you at @acnporg.bsky.social

Environmental, Health, and Psychological Factors Predict Alcohol Sipping in Childhood: A Machine Learning Analysis of the ABCD Study Extant research has focused on the risk factors for alcohol use in adolescence, but little work has examined these in childhood. Early alcohol sipping…

Happy 2026!

I believe this is one of the most important papers that I have ever published, we systematically mapped the environmental, health and psychological factors underlying early onset of alcohol use in childhood: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
with @andreammax.bsky.social

Broadly, we found that positive social relationships are particularly protective for women against alcohol misuse, with prelim evidence suggesting that dysregulated orbitofrontal cortex reactivity may be particularly impactful for men.

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Very excited that our paper has been published in Psychological Medicine! We studied sex/gender differences in the roles of social relationship quality, stress, and brain reactivity on alcohol misuse. @annaz.bsky.social

Mom and baby’s first ACNP! Thanks for the travel award #ACNP2024 #academicmom

Hi #ACNP2024! I am a 6th year MD/PhD student at UMN studying sex/gender differences in the effect of social relationships, stress, & brain function on alcohol use. I am interested in repro and addiction psych clinically.

I’m honored to be a 2024 Travel Award awardee - check out my poster this Tues!