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Dani Dumitriu is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University and the inaugural director of the Center for Early Relational Health. She divides her time between research (80%) and clinical pediatric practice (20%) at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. Her work focuses on promoting resilience through neurocircuitry studies and dyadic parent-child health measures.
- Education: MD and PhD from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, BS in Cognitive Neuroscience from UC Santa Barbara, and MBBS from Hawaii Pacific University
- Leadership: Director of the Center for Early Relational Health, Chair of the COMBO Initiative, and Co-Chair of the WiSE Club
- Expertise: Pediatrics, neuroscience, resilience, family-patient-clinician inclusive research design, brain imaging, and early-life stress
Dr. Dumitriu's research spans multi-modal, multi-species, and multi-scale approaches to understand resilience neurocircuits. She developed the Developmental Origins of Resilience (DOOR) Lab, which investigates stress response variability and autonomic synchrony in animal models and human mother-infant interactions. Her lab also created MouseCircuits.org, an open science repository for neuroscience research.
Her recent publications focus on maternal-infant bonding, pandemic impacts on neonatal health, and neurocircuitry mechanisms. These works emphasize resilience, early-life stress, and innovative methodologies across species.
- Scientific Awards: Society for Pediatric Research New Member Outstanding Science Award, NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and multiple grants including NIMH R01MH126531
- Grants: COMBO Study (NIMH R01MH126531), ESPI COMBO Study (CDC), and novel telemetry development (RISE Award)
- Collaborations: Maternal Child Research Operations (MaCRO) Consortium, Reach Out and Read, Nurture Connection, and Foundation for Social Connection
