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Elizabeth Lippard, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Dell Medical School. She graduated magna cum laude from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in Microbiology and a B.A. in Chemistry, with a minor in Genetics in 2003. Lippard obtained her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. Before joining the Dell Medical School team, she completed postdoctoral fellowships in psychiatry, radiology, and biomedical imaging at Yale University. Her research interests focus on the intersection of behavioral and developmental neuroscience, particularly on brain-behavior relationships during development and how genetics and environmental stress influence these processes. She employs a developmental approach using longitudinal and translational neuroscience paradigms along with human and rodent models to identify genes and neural circuitry that predict problem behaviors and mechanisms that translate into adult phenotypes such as suicide and addiction. Lippard has received numerous awards for her work, including the NIDA Early Career Investigator Award and recognition for her undergraduate mentoring efforts.
Department: Department of Social Work. Note: GRE is not required for the PhD program.