Gina Erato Garza, MS, is currently a clinical psychology resident at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, working with Laura Stroud, PhD, as her research mentor. She is also currently a sixth year doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at Oklahoma State University working in the Child Adaptation and Maternal Psychopathology (CAMP) lab of Lucia Ciciolla, PhD.
Garza's research centers on perinatal sleep and the unique biological and psychosocial factors at play in the transition to parenthood. Her dissertation examined how perinatal depression, sleep, and social support impacts postpartum sleep.
Before graduate school, Garza received a BA in Psychology and Italian Studies with a certificate in Child and Adolescent Studies from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Upon graduation, she worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Medical College of Wisconsin in the Pediatric Gastroenterology clinic. Given these collective experiences, she strives to take a developmental psychopathology approach to her research to consider the impact of early life stress on the development and maintenance of perinatal outcomes.