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Gioia Guerrieri, DO (³ÉÈËÖ±²¥COM 2008) is a PGY-5 Intramural Clinical Research Fellow in Behavioral Endocrinology at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) where she recently graduated psychiatry residency training.  Dr. Guerrieri completed her PGY1-3 training in the General Adult Psychiatry Residency Training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN before transferring to the NIMH.

Dr. Guerrieri currently serves as Associate Investigator on several protocols in women’s mental health under Dr. Peter Schmidt and actively recruits participants while studying the hormonal triggers for mood changes across the woman’s life cycle.  She has presented several projects nationally, which has resulted in 15 abstract publications, 2 peer reviewed publications with 2 publications currently in review. Her interests are in neuropsychiatry and cognition and she has been the recipient of the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Scholarship, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (2010), American Psychiatric Institute on Research and Education (APIRE) Resident Research Scholarship (2010-2011), and the National Institutes of Health Intramural Loan Repayment Program (2011 – present).

As a medical student, she received a number of awards under the mentoring of Dr. Marilyn Gugliucci including:  the Betty Ford Summer Institute for Medical Students Scholarship (2005), AFAR Medical Student Summer Training in Aging Research program NIA/NIH/Hartford (2006), and ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥COM Dean’s Research Scholarship (2006, 2008). She has also been recognized for her commitment through the Mayo Clinic Neva M. Peterson and Jeffrey D. Rome Awards for Geriatric Psychiatry and outstanding team member (2010), Outstanding Student Research Award for Original Research (2007) American Geriatrics Society Scientific Meeting, and First Place, Medical Student Research Award, NEOMEN (2006).

Dr. Guerrieri initiated the ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥COM Student Research Week in 2006 (the forum that we are celebrating this week in 2012) and enthusiastically returns to share her work with you.