About

Dr. Susan Girdler is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and also serves as Director for the 黑料网 Psychiatry Stress and Health Research Program. Dr. Girdler鈥檚 long-standing research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health has focused on neuroendocrine and neurosteroid stress reactivity in reproductive mood disorders, including premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and perimenopausal depression.聽 Her research studies the role of psychosocial stress exposure in predicting vulnerability to hormone sensitivity across the female reproductive lifespan.聽 Dr. Girdler鈥檚 research also employs RCT designs to examine the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on cardiovascular health and mood in perimenopausal women.

Dr. Girdler is also committed to health disparities research.聽 Her work, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, was the first in the field to systematically identify racial differences in endogenous, stress-responsive pain regulatory mechanisms.聽聽 Those findings have direct implications for understanding racial disparities in clinical pain. 聽Dr. Girdler is also the Principal Investigator of an NIH-U01 collaborative research project o苍听Peer group聽R别蝉别补谤肠丑听O苍听Mentori苍驳听Scientists from underrepresented groups (The PROMISE study).