I'm the Clinical Director of the Northwestern University Schizophrenia Research Group. My educational background is in psychology, social work, psychiatric epidemiology, and psychiatry, I'm bring multiple perspectives on how to study schizophrenia and how schizophrenia can affect families. Currently, I have ongoing survey research studies to examine the social development of siblings (9-45 years old) of individuals with schizophrenia (IRB#5657), the physical health of mothers with children (9-45 year old) that have schizophrenia (IRB#5367). In addition, I'm using brain imaging technology to study how the brain is involved with empathy in individuals with schizophrenia (18-45 years old) (IRB#13034). Lastly, I'm collaborating with Dr. John Csernansky, MD, and Chairman of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. His study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (IRB#3230), uses brain imaging techniques to examine how the brain changes over time in individuals with schizophrenia (9-45 years old). If you have schizophrenia or your child/brother sister has schizophrenia and you are interested in participating in research to better understand the illness, please call 312-695-8643 to learn more.