Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California Irvine

Research Areas:

• Attachment relationships
• Adversity/stress
• Resilience
• Health

Research Summary:

Dr. Kazmierski received her Ph.D. in Psychology, Clinical Science from the University of Southern California and joined UC Irvine as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Uma Rao’s Biobehavioral Research on Adolescent Development (BRoAD) Lab in August 2019. She was awarded the NIH NIMHD Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship to study parent-child relationships as sources of resilience from the health effects of adolescent stress, with a focus on the impact of discrimination-related stress on obesity-related health. Kelly received her B.A. in Psychology from Pomona College in 2012 and her M.A. in Clinical Science from USC in 2014; she completed her clinical internship in health services psychology at the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center. Kelly’s research measures how attachment relationships foster both emotional and physiological regulation in the face of stress. Her work focuses on how parent-child and romantic relationships might break links between exposure to adversity in childhood and adverse health-related outcomes in adolescence and adulthood.

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Postdoctoral Scholar
Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research (IISBR)
University of California Irvine

Research Summary:

Katrina Hamilton completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at Ohio University where she gained specialized training in health psychology and a secondary concentration in quantitative statistics. While completing her doctorate, she held a Heritage Fellowship through the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine that fostered interdisciplinary training and research. This prior work was focused on acute and chronic stress, noninvasive interventions, lifestyle medicine, and working with chronically ill and healthy individuals. Specifically, her dissertation examined biopsychosocial outcomes of a 3-month lifestyle intervention relative to treatment as usual for individuals from Southeastern Ohio region of Appalachia who have a chronic pain condition.

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Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics
Teachers College, Columbia University

Research Interests
Hedyeh Ahmadi earned her PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics from Columbia University in 2019. She completed her M.S. in Statistics at UC Irvine in 2016. Her research focuses on the development and testing of methods for analyzing repeated measure/longitudinal growth models in the context of Salivary Bioscience, Psychology, and Education. In addition to exploring new methods, Dr. Ahmadi will teach advanced statistical methods to researchers via tutorial papers and intensive training workshops. More broadly, Dr. Ahmadi is interested in the use of regression models – particularly in the areas of meta-analysis and with censored salivary data.

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