Research
The active research program spans sport science, forensic, and clinical interests addressing PTSD, cognition's in adult depression, the psychophysiology of depression, and the neuropathology of responses to winning and losing. Published articles appear in such diverse scholarly journals as the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Torture (published by the International Council for Torture Victims), and Brain Imaging and Behavior.As a young doctoral student, I was honored to receive an Isaac Walton Killam pre-Doctoral Fellowship for my research into the cognitive parameters of depression and, not long afterward, by a Citation Award from the Society for Behavioral Medicine for my research into psycho endocrine stress responses in breast cancer patients. I have given numerous invited lectures at professional meetings on the subject of depression, stress in sport, and recovery in athletes. As first author, I have published original research articles and I have contributed chapters to academic texts in sport.
Most recently, I have headed a collaborative team to use endocrinology with functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) to advance our understanding the athlete's disappointment to setback and to inform sport psychology interventions for elevating the athlete back to a winning track. Esteemed mentors and collaborators include Mario Liotti, MD, PhD at Simon Fraser University, Helen Mayberg, MD at Emory University, and Georg Northoff, MD, PhD at the University of Ottawa.