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

Email tracy.glauser@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Clinical pharmacology; pharmacogenetics; antiepileptic clinical trials

John P. Pestian, PhD, MBA

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email john.pestian@cchmc.org

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Core Team

Robert T. Ammerman, PhD, ABPP

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email robert.ammerman@cchmc.org

Research Interests

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

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Cole Brokamp, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email cole.brokamp@cchmc.org

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

Bruce J. Aronow, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email bruce.aronow@cchmc.org

Visit the Aronow-Jegga Lab

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...

Sarah J. Beal, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email sarah.beal@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Developmental psychology; general pediatrics research fellowship

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Craig A. Erickson, MD

Associate Professor

Research Interests

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

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Jessica M. McClure, PsyD

Staff Psychologist IV, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology

Email jessica.mcclure@cchmc.org

Jareen K. Meinzen-Derr, PhD, MPH, FACE

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email jareen.meinzen-derr@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Deafness; hearing loss; language development; developmental disabilities Visit the More Than Hearing Loss web page.

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Avani C. Modi, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email avani.modi@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Treatment adherence; health-related quality of life; patient-reported outcomes; executive functioning, adherence barriers, randomized controlled...

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S. Andrew Spooner, MD, MS, FAAP

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email andrew.spooner@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Learn more about the Decision Support Analytics Workgroup.

Rhonda D. Szczesniak, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email rhonda.szczesniak@cchmc.org

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).