Laura Stroud, PhD, serves as the director of the Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine (CBPM) at The Miriam Hospital as well as a senior research scientist. Within CBPM, Dr. Stroud also directs the COBRE Center for Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR), and serves as founding director of the Maternal-Infant Studies Laboratory and the Child and Adolescent Stress Laboratory. Dr. Stroud’s research focuses on biobehavioral mechanisms of stress, trauma, mood and substance abuse. Her work involves an interdisciplinary, developmental framework incorporating both biological and behavioral markers of risk and resilience.
Dr. Stroud has a long history of mentoring at all levels, including postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty. The COBRE Center for Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR), which she directs, is devoted to supporting early career researchers to emerge as independently funded investigators. She also co-directs the T32 postdoctoral training program focused on research training in childhood stress, trauma, and resilience. She was awarded the 2023 Faculty Mentoring Award through the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and received the Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award nomination for RI.
Dr. Stroud’s research focuses on two sensitive periods of development: perinatal-infant transition and the adolescent/pubertal transition. Within the perinatal-infant period, Dr. Stroud's work has focused on novel ultrasound measures of fetal development and biological pathways through which effects of maternal substance use and depression are transmitted to the fetus and infant. She also oversees a program of research focused on the impact of marijuana use and tobacco products on pregnant women and infants. Within the adolescent period, Dr. Stroud’s work has focused on novel neural and neuroendocrine biomarkers of risk for adolescent depression.
Dr. Stroud has an AB in Human Biology from Stanford University, and received a PhD in Psychology from Yale University in 1999. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Brown in 2001, then joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown. Since 2013, Dr. Stroud has also held a secondary appointment in the department of behavioral and social sciences in the school of public health at Brown.
Contact Dr. Stroud
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/lstroud