Kate Fitzgerald Honored with Dana Foundation Grant for Neuroimaging
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| Kate Fitzgerald, M.D. |
Kate Fitzgerald, M.D., a member of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry section, was awarded a prestigious Dana Foundation grant for Neuroimaging. This will provide $200,000 in grant support over two years for Kate's innovative studies of brain activity in error response detection in children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropy with principal interests in brain science, immunology, and arts education. Charles A. Dana, a New York State legislator, industrialist and philanthropist, was president of the Dana Foundation from 1950 to 1966 and actively shaped its programs and principles until his death in 1975.
The Dana Foundation’s science and health grants support brain research in neuroscience and immunology and their interrelationship in human health and disease. The foundation sponsors workshops and forums for working scientists, as well as offering funding for selected young researchers to continue their education or to attend seminars and workshops elsewhere.
The Foundation’s science education grants support collaborations with other organizations to enhance and augment the neuroscience curricula currently being taught in K-12 schools. Programs include dissemination of current, credible information on the brain, teachers’ guides, workshops for classroom implementation, and talks by neuroscientists.
Kate Dimond Fitzgerald, M.D. is a clinical lecturer in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Program at the University of Michigan. Dr. Fitzgerald completed medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and then completed her residency and child fellowship training at the University of Michigan. Her clinical work is focused on the diagnosis and treatment of childhood anxiety, and is complemented by her brain imaging research in pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Currently, she is studying how brain response to errors could interact with developmental stage to lead to obsessions and compulsions in youth. In conjunction with ongoing genetic research at the University of Michigan Child Anxiety Program, this work aims to elucidate the brain basis for pediatric OCD in order to guide the development of better treatment and preventative strategies for early onset illness.
Learn more:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section
Psychiatry Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory
Using brain imaging to understand the developmental basis of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Participate in OCD Research: Brain development in children and adolescents with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder