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Social Ecology hires two new faculty members to collaborate with Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research

June 15, 2017 by IISBR

Jenna Riis and Kate Kuhlman

May 2017

The School of Social Ecology has hired two new assistant professors, Jenna Riis and Kate Kuhlman, to work in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, effective July 1, 2017. Both plan to develop research collaborations with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, which uses saliva to better understand important issues such as stress, heart disease risk, animal wellness, infectious diseases and much more.

Riis earned her PhD at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. For the last couple years, she has worked as an early childhood mental health specialist at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Her research uses salivary biomeasures to advance child health research, and examine the effects of early-life adversity. She also seeks to use salivary biomarkers to broaden the range of lines of study for child health researchers, and measure the effectiveness of intervention programs on child health. Her research may help identify, prevent and treat the effects of childhood adversity.

Kuhlman earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan, and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Los Angeles for the past few years.

Her research seeks to mitigate the lifelong health disparities that are associated with childhood trauma, maltreatment and unpredictable family environments. She measures responses to stress at the behavioral, cognitive, molecular and even intracellular levels, and examines how those responses affect depression and other disorders. By identifying predictors of resilience among at-risk youth, she also seeks to inform intervention programs.

 

 

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Recent Publications

  • Kimonis, E. R., et al. (2018). Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its ratio to cortisol moderate associations between maltreatment and psychopathology in male juvenile offenders. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
  • Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., et al. (2018). Magnitude and Chronicity of Environmental Smoke Exposure Across Infancy and Early Childhood in a Sample of Low-Income Children. Nicotine Tob Res.
  • Pisanic, N., et al. (2018). Minimally Invasive Saliva Testing to Monitor Norovirus Infection in Community Settings. J Infect Dis.
  • Affifi, T. D., et al. (2018). Testing the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) in families with type I diabetes. Health Commun.
  • Wheelock, M.D., et al. (2018). Psychosocial stress reactivity is associated with decreased whole brain network efficiency and increased amygdala centrality. Behav Neurosci.
  • Kornienko, O., et al. (2018). Associations Between Secretory Immunoglobulin A and Social Network Structure. Int J Behav Med.
  • Kuhlman, K. R., et al. (2018). Interparental conflict and child HPA-axis responses to acute stress: Insights using intensive repeated measures. J Fam Psychol.
  • Kuhlman, K. R., et al. (2018). HPA-Axis Activation as a Key Moderator of Childhood Trauma Exposure and Adolescent Mental Health. Journal of abnormal child psychology.
  • Corey-Bloom, J., et al. (2018). Salivary levels of total huntingtin are elevated in Huntington’s disease patients. Sci Rep.
  • Martinez, A. D., et al. (2018). Household fear of deportation in Mexican-origin families: Relation to body mass index percentiles and salivary uric acid. Am J Hum Biol.
  • Lucas, T., et al. (2018). Justice for all? Beliefs about justice for self and others and telomere length in African Americans. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol.
  • Woerner, J., et al. (2018). Salivary uric acid: Associations with resting and reactive blood pressure response to social evaluative stress in healthy African Americans. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
  • Riis J.L., et al. (2018). The validity, stability, and utility of measuring uric acid in saliva. Biomark Med.

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