OHSU Scientific Faculty
Our success has been fueled by the participation of an outstanding team of collaborators from multiple scientific disciplines. These include an unusually strong collection of expertise from within OHSU’s expert faculty, as well as top experts from around the nation and the world (see non-OHSU collaborators).
Bonnie Nagel, Ph.D.
Center Director, Assistant Vice President for Research, OHSU, Professor and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry.
Expertise: Emotion regulation, adolescent risk, addiction, MRI neuroimaging. Developmental Brain Imaging Lab (DBIL)
Alice Graham, Ph.D.
Developmental Neuroscience. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Expertise: Early brain development, MRI neuroimaging. Developmental Cognition And Neuroimaging (DCAN) Lab
Ajit Jetmalani, M.D.
Psychiatry. Professor and Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Expertise: Social determinants of child mental health, trauma informed care.
Jennifer Loftis, Ph.D.
Neuroscience. Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Research Scientist, VA. Expertise: Inflammatory factors, ADHD, substance abuse, and depression. Dr. Loftis is on the PNI Research Team and the MARC Team
Cindy McEvoy, M.D., M.C.R.
Pediatrics and Neonatology. Professor, Pediatrics, OHSU.
Expertise: Environmental and teratogen risks in early life; intervention to rescue effects of smoking in pregnancy on offspring health and behavior; part of ECHO and VCSIP.
Michael Mooney, Ph.D.
Computational Biology. Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU.
Expertise: Psychiatric genetics, machine learning.
Xubo Song, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Biomedical Informatics.
Expertise: Machine learning, Image analysis.
Dr. Song's personal website
Joel Nigg, Ph.D.
Center Co-Director, Professor and Vice Chair for Psychology, Department of Psychiatry. Expertise: Developmental Psychopathology, temperament, executive functions, ADHD. Dr. Nigg’s personal website and blog.
Nathan Dieckmann, Ph.D.
Quantitative Psychology & Decision Science. Associate Professor, School of Nursing. Expertise: Structural Equation Modeling, Psychometrics, Judgment & Decision Making.
Hanna Gustafsson, Ph.D. Developmental Psychology. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry. Expertise: Early psychosocial and psychobiological influences on development. Prenatal Environment And Child Health Lab.
Jeanette Johnstone, Ph.D.
Psychology. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry.
Expertise: Nutritional treatment for ADHD and mood disorders. Science of Nutrition, Affect, and Cognition in Kids (SNACK) Lab
Daniel Marks, M.D., Ph.D.
School of Medicine. Professor of Pediatrics. Senior Associate Dean for Research, Office of the Dean. Expertise: Pediatric endocrinology, weight regulation in children.
Suzanne Mitchell, Ph.D.
Experimental Psychology. Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience. Expertise: Experimental and computational studies of reward discounting and mechanisms of impulsivity; neuroeconomics. Dr. Mitchell is the PI for the Translational Neuroeconomics Lab.
Elinor Sullivan, Ph.D.
Physiology and Pharmacology. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Oregon National Primate Research Center. Expertise: Biology of early and prenatal influences on behavior; diet and metabolic state. Prenatal Environment And Child Health Lab.