Speaker’s Background
Dr. Roecklein received her BS in Neuroscience from the Univeristy of Delaware in 1996, and her PhD in Medical and Clinical Psychology from the Uniformed Services University in 2008. Since 2008 she has been Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Clinical Psychology, and Biological and Health Psychology programs. She was recently promoted to Associate Professor in 2015, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Her research has focused on the circadian biology underlying mood, sleep and cognition, and she has used behavioral genetics approaches to identify new etiological hypotheses for seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Her work ranges from treatment studies in cognitive behavioral therapy for SAD, to more recent work using genetics and neurophysiological measures such as pupilography to identify biomarkers in SAD. She has funded her work through three NIH grants, and currently has 20 published articles.