Looking for New Post-Doctoral Fellow!

This position is a postdoctoral fellowship with great opportunities to collaborate with multisite research teams to develop a productive clinical research career and independent research program. 

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Early Career Mentees

Rachel Peterson, PhD, NCSP

After graduating from Indiana University with a double major in Psychology and Neuroscience, Dr. Peterson completed her Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in school psychology at Indiana University. Dr. Peterson’s pre-doctoral internship in clinical pediatric neuropsychology was completed at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. After receiving her doctorate, Dr. Peterson completed a clinical post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada working with children and adolescents with an array of developmental and medical conditions. She joined the outpatient neuropsychology program at Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2019. Dr. Peterson’s research interests focus on identifying neurocognitive profiles following pediatric oncology treatment, examining neurocognitive and associated neuroanatomical changes following cancer-directed treatment, and delineating risk and neuroprotective factors with respect to neurocognitive outcomes to inform treatment and intervention.

Dr. Peterson has received an early career grant from the American Cancer Society to begin July 2024. The project will examine changes in cognition, using 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.