Decoding Mental Health Center
Meet the Team

Meet the Experts

Our international team of experts represent the continuum of knowledge, and includes more than 25 leading scientists from across Cincinnati Children’s as well as collaborators from a variety of scientific institutions such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Los Almos National Laboratory (LANL), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), the University of Cincinnati (UC), University College of London (UCL), Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado, the University of Ottawa, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Dell, and UNEEQ.

Co-Directors and Principal Investigators

Tracy A. Glauser, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical pharmacology; pharmacogenetics; antiepileptic clinical trials

Core Team

Research Interests
Early childhood prevention programs and interventions to optimize the development of young children; enhancements of home visiting programs that...

Cole Brokamp, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developing new methods and technologies to support environmental and population health research; tools for geocoding and geomarker assessment; high...

Jeffrey R. Strawn, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Subject Matter Experts

Drew H. Barzman, MD

Professor, N/A
Research Interests
Child and adolescent forensic psychiatry; prevention of violence in youth; neuroimaging in children and adolescents; genetics; pediatric clinical...

Craig A. Erickson, MD

Associate Professor
Research Interests
Fragile X syndrome; autism spectrum disorders; neurodevelopmental disorders; molecular blood markers; quantitative measurement of pathophysiology in...

Avani C. Modi, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Treatment adherence; health-related quality of life; patient-reported outcomes; executive functioning, adherence barriers, randomized controlled...
Research Interests
Learn more about the Decision Support Analytics Workgroup.
Research Interests
Functional data analysis; longitudinal data analysis; medical monitoring; prediction

Strategic Partners

In addition to our faculty investigators, core team members include biostatisticians and project managers from around the world.

Not pictured: Ben McMahon, PhD (LANL), Sayera Dhaubhadel, MS (LANL), Julie Spencer, PhD (LANL), Anna Vlot (ORNL), Julia Ive, PhD (UCL), Paulina Bondaronek, PhD (UCL).

Emeritus Partners