Dr. Gildawie is a behavioral neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Simmons University. Dr. Gildawie is a Simmons alumna and began her work in the field of neuroscience with Dr. Amanda Carey, studying the impact of diet on age-related cognitive decline. She received her PhD from Northeastern University, where she conducted research in the Developmental Neuropsychobiology Laboratory under Dr. Heather Brenhouse, exploring how early life experience affects neurostructural development in the brain. She then went on to hold an IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tufts University in the Byrnes-Vassoler Lab. Her research used rodent models to investigate the sex-dependent impacts of prenatal opioid exposure on neurodevelopmental and long-term changes in the brain and subsequent behavior.
Kelsea Rian Gildawie, PhD 