The STAR Initiative includes multiple core faculty members with expertise in the study or treatment of stress, trauma, and resilience. Research led by the core faculty encompasses the entire lifespan, employs diverse methodologies, and ranges from the basic science of biological processes underlying risk and adaptation, to the development, implementation, and dissemination of interventions to address stress and trauma in community settings. This research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, as well as several private foundations at the national and international level. Many of the STAR Initiative Affiliated Faculty and Trainees already participate in monthly Adversity Research Meetings that began in September 2017. The focus of these meetings is the development of collaborative research ideas, feedback on pilot data and grant proposals, and critical review of recent literature. All STAR Initiative affiliated faculty and trainees will also have the opportunity to participate in the development of specialty research subgroups.

Michael Armey, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Cynthia Battle, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior​
Beth Bock, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Leslie Ann D Brick, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Margaret Bublitz, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research)
Mary A Carskadon, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior​
Linda Carpenter, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Charlene Collibee, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Shira I Dunsiger, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)
E Whitney Evans, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Kate M Guthrie, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Lindsay Huffhines, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Elissa Jelalian, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Pediatrics
Brian Kavanaugh, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Professor of Pediatrics (Research)
Kirsten Langdon, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Christine M Low, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator
Elizabeth A Lowenhaupt, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Medical Science, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator
Elizabeth McQuaid, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Pediatrics
Lindsay M Orchowski, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Megan Ranney, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Ronald Seifer, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
M Tracie Shea, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Stephanie A Shepard Umaschi, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
LG Ward, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Rena Wing, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Mascha Van ’t Wout-Frank, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Chrystal Vergara-Lopez, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Hannah Ziobrowski, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology