Jenni Blackford, PhD
Director

I completed my graduate training in developmental psychology at Vanderbilt University, with minors in quantitative psychology and developmental disabilities. My research focused on the role of individual differences in temperamental fear on responses to novel stimuli.

After graduate school, I spent the next eight years as both an administrator at the Vanderbilt Mental Health Center, and as a statistical consultant / researcher / educator at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

In 2006, I returned to my research career and began training in neuroimaging and genetics methods with mentors David Zald, Richard Shelton, and James Sutcliffe. I am currently an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University.

Current Lab Members

Ross VanDerKlok Research Assistant	Suzanne Avery Neuroscience Graduate Student
Jacci Clauss Medical Scholar	April Seay Emphasis Program Student