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Meet Dr. Kristen Willeumier
B.A. Psychology I M.S. Physiological Science I M.S., Ph.D. Neurobiology I Postdoctoral Research neurology
Kristen Willeumier, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist with research expertise in neurobiology and neuroimaging. Dr. Willeumier holds a B.A. in Psychology from Boston College, an M.S. in Physiological Science from UCLA within the College of Letters and Sciences, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Neurobiology from UCLA within the David Geffen School of Medicine. She conducted her master’s-level graduate research in the laboratory of neuroendocrinology under Dr. Barney Schlinger. Her doctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of neurophysiology under Dr. Felix Schweitzer at UCLA and the laboratory of neurogenetics under Dr. Stefan Pulst at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she utilized optical imaging tools to investigate synaptic vesicle recycling and the role of protein ubiquitination in regulating this process. Her focus was on parkin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase encoded by PARK2, a gene implicated in autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center within the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, where she continued her research on the genetic analysis of neurological disorders. In recognition of her research at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she was the recipient of a National Research Service Award Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. She has also been a Research Fellow of the Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics.
Dr. Willeumier has presented her research at national and international conferences and professional scientific meetings, including the Society for Neuroscience, the National Institutes of Health, the Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics, and the Gordon Research Conference in Hong Kong, China.
From 2009-2016, Dr. Willeumier served as the Director of Neuroimaging and Clinical Research for the Amen Clinics where she led the efforts in utilizing imaging technologies to understand the neurobiological signatures underlying psychiatric disorders. In this capacity she oversaw many pioneering studies, including a clinical research trial investigating the long-term effects of repetitive head impacts on brain function in National Football League players. Subsequent work focused on therapeutic approaches to rehabilitate brain function in athletes with mild traumatic brain injury and the application of machine learning algorithms to neuroimaging data to improve the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Willeumier is widely published and has co-authored articles on her research in The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Nature Translational Psychiatry, Nature Obesity, PLOS One, Brain Imaging & Behavior, The Journal of Neuroscience, The Journal of Systems & Integrative Neuroscience, The Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, and The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, among others. Areas of published research include mild traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, autism, neuroimaging biomarkers predictive of suicide, functional neuroimaging in obesity, gender differences in brain function, neuroimaging of nutraceutical interventions, treatment outcomes in psychiatry, and brain rehabilitation.
Dr. Willeumier is an Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Neuroanatomy and has been a Handling Editor or Reviewer for Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuropharmacology, and Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Her professional memberships include the American Academy of Neurology, the American Psychological Association, the American Board of Sport Psychology, the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Neuroregulation & Research, and the Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics.
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