Dr. Vasiliki Michopoulos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine and a Core Scientist at the Emory National Primate Research Center (ENPRC). She has a been a member of ADAA since 2014. Dr. Michopoulos’ research investigates how psychosocial stress exposure (including trauma) across the lifespan contributes to health inequities using a translational neuroscience approach across non-human primates at ENPRC and humans at the Grady Trauma Project. She employs robust social behavioral paradigms, hormone manipulation, dietary interventions, psychophysiology, neuroimaging techniques, as well as psychoimmunology and behavioral neuroendocrinology approaches to conduct her translational, interdisciplinary research. Dr. Michopoulos’ research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIA, NIMH).
Dr. Michopoulos has been an ADAA member since 2013 and joined the Board in 2024.
"I am so excited to be able to serve on the ADAA Board. ADAA is my professional home. No other organization pairs cutting edge translational and clinical science with clinical practice in anxiety and depression, while also concurrently providing critical resources for those with anxiety and depression. I hope to contribute to the growth of ADAA by focusing on increasing diversity within our organization. There are two kinds of diversity that I think is critical for the future of ADAA: 1) diversity in the disciplines represented and the kind of scientific approaches leveraged by members focused on anxiety and depression (e.g., basic, translational, clinical), and 2) diversity in the membership of ADAA."
