Appointments
2022 – present
Postdoctoral Fellow
McLean Hospital, Division of Depression and Anxiety, Belmont MA
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston MA
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston MA
2018 -2021
Graduate Student Researcher/ Teaching Assistant
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI
2017 -2019
Behavioral Research Technician / US Scientific Advisor
APOPO vzw, Morogoro, Tanzania
2016 – 2017
Research Assistant
Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy, Durham NC
Select Support
2022 T32 Fellowship in Psychiatric Genetics and Translational Research, National Institutes of Health, Harvard Training Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2022 Postdoctoral Research Fund Award, Harvard Data Science Institute
2021 Trauma Psychology Grant, American Psychological Foundation
2021 APF / COGDOP scholarship, American Psychological Foundation
2020 TL1 NRSA Predoctoral Trainee (renewed), National Institutes of Health
Publications
17. Webb, E.K., Etter, J.A., & Kwasa, J.A. (2022). Addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience methods. Nature Neuroscience.
16. Webb, E.K.*, Douglas, R.*, & Cardenas-Inquiez, C.* (2022). Radically reframing studies on socioeconomic factors and neurobiology: a call for social justice-oriented neuroscience. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
15. Tomas, C.W., Webb, E.K., Bennett, K.P., Huggins, A.A., Fitzgerald, J.M., Miskovich, T.A., Krukowski, J., deRoon-Cassini, T.A., & Larson, C.L.(2022). Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and the neurobiology of uncertainty in traumatically injured adults. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.
14. Webb, E.K.*, Ward, R.*, Mathew, A.S., Price, M., Weis, C., Trevino, C., deRoon-Cassini, & Larson, C. (2022). Role of Pain and Socioenvironmental Factors on PTSD Symptoms in Traumatically Injured Adults: A One-Year Prospective Study. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
13. Webb, E.K.*, Bird, C.M.*, de-Roon-Cassini, T., Weis, C., Huggins, A., Fitzgerald, J.M., Miskovich, T., Bennett, K., Krukowski, J., Torres, L., & Larson, C. (2021). Racial discrimination and resting-state functional connectivity of salience network nodes in traumatically injured adults. JAMA Network Open. (* co-first)
12. Weis, C.N., Huggins, A., Miskovich, T., Fitzgerald, J., Bennet, K., Krukowski, J., Webb, E.K., deRoon-Cassini, & Larson, C. (2021). Acute white matter integrity post-trauma and prospective PTSD symptoms. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
11. Fitzgerald, J.M.*, Webb, E.K.*, Weis, C., Huggins, A., Bennett, K., Parisi, E., Kallenbach, M., Krukowski, J., deRoon-Cassini, & Larson, C. (2021). Hippocampus resting-state functional connectivity forecasts individual PTSD symptoms: A data-driven approach. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
10. Webb, E.K.*, Weis, C.*, Huggins, A., Fitzgerlad, J.M., Bennett, K., Bird, C.M., Parisi E.A., Kallenbach, M., Miskovich, T., Krukowski, J., deRoon-Cassini, & Larson, C. (2021). Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults. Neurobiology of Stress.
9. Weis, C.N., Webb, E.K., deRoon-Cassini, T.A., & Larson, C.L.(2021). Emotion dysregulation following trauma: shared neurocircuitry of traumatic brain injury and trauma-related psychiatric disorders. Biological Psychiatry.
8. Weis, C.N.*, Webb, E.K.*, Huggins, A.A, Kallenbach, M., Miskovich, T.A., Fitzgerald, J.M, Bennett, K.P, Krukowski, J.L, deRoon-Cassini, T., & Larson, C.L. (2021). Stability of hippocampal subfield volumes after trauma and relationship to development of PTSD symptoms. Neuroimage.
7. Weis, C.N, Webb, E.K., Damiano, S., Larson, C.L., & deRoon-Cassini, T. (2021). Scoring the Life Events Checklist: comparison of three scoring methods. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
6. Bird, C.*, Webb, E.K.*, Schramm, A., Torres, L., Larson, C., & deRoon-Cassini, T. (2021). Racial discrimination is associated with acute post-traumatic stress symptoms and predicts future PTSD symptom severity in trauma-exposed Black American adults. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
*** Non-academic version of this research (R shiny app) was created for dissemination.
5. Webb, E.K., Weis, C., Huggins, A., Parisi, E., Bennett, K., Miskovich, T., Hanson, J., deRoon-Cassini, & Larson, C. (2021). Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with stable deficits in neurocognitive functioning in traumatically injured adults. Health and Place, 67, 102493.
4. Fried, A.*, Dunphy, C.*, Silverman, M.*, Webb, E.K.* (2020). Emerging issues in the responsible conduct of psychological science. Translational Issues in Psychological Sciences, 6(3), 191-195.
3. Webb, E.K.*, Huggins, A.*, Belleau, E., Taubitz, L., Hanson, J., deRoon-Cassini, T., & Larson, C. (2020). Altered resting-state functional connectivity of periaqueductal gray prospectively predicts posttraumatic stress symptoms. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5(9), 891-900.
2. Webb, E. K., Saccardo, C. C., Poling, A., Cox, C., & Fast, C. D. (2020). Rapidly training African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) with multiple targets for scent detection. Behavioural Processes, 174, 104085.
1. Lewon, M., Webb, E.K., Brotheridge, S.M., Cox, C., & Fast, C. (2019). Behavioral skills training in scent detection research: interactions between trainer and animal behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 52(3), 682-700. DOI: 10.1002/jaba.566.
Kate Webb, PhD 