Congratulations to Stephanie Steinberg on successfully defending her dissertation, Exploring Within-Individual BOLD Signal Variability in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumor! Next stop internship! We’re so proud of you!

Huge congrats to Stephanie Steinberg, Dr. K.C. Hewitt, and Dr. Cady Block for their recent publication in The Clinical Neuropsychologist. This case report is the first full neuropsychological characterization of a primary CNS neuroendocrine tumor. Read more here.

Congratulations to Holly Dustin on her graduation from the GSU Clinical Psychology Program. Holly will begin her post-doctoral fellowship at Kennedy Krieger Institute this summer. We are so proud of you Holly!

Thank you to University of Alabama at Birmingham Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship for hosting Dr. King on a lovely visit. She is grateful for the opportunity to share our program of research to optimize outcomes of pediatric brain tumor survivors!

Congratulations to Sedi Ejuoneatse-Clarke for winning an Identity and Belonging specialty award at GSURC, for her work on “Understanding the Socio-Economic Determinants of Sleep Quality of Young Adults”. We’re so proud of you Sedi!

Our undergraduate and graduate students have been busy sharing their work at GSURC and L&L research events across campus! Congratulations to everyone on your fabulous poster presentations

Check out this new paper, looking at concurrent structural and functional changes in adult survivors of pediatric brain tumors! Dr. King enjoyed collaborating and being a co-author on this exciting work.

We are excited to share that Alannah Srsich will be joining the DNP-ATL Lab as our newest graduate student! Welcome Alannah, we are looking forward to having you as a member of our team!

We are always excited to get our research out there! Click here to learn more about the exciting work done by Milu Parrilla and Rella Kautiainen during their time in the DNP-ATL Lab.

Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Peterson who was awarded an early career grant from the American Cancer Society!

Starting this July, she will begin examining changes in cognition, neuroimaging (MRI, DTI, fMRI) along the cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway, and brain injury biomarkers of neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in pediatric posterior fossa tumors treated with radiation during the first year from diagnosis.