Cynthia Neill Epperson, M.D.
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Scientific Council Member (Joined 2025)
2005 Independent Investigator Grant
1997, 1995 Young Investigator Grant
Cynthia Neill Epperson, M.D.
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Robert Freedman Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
University of Colorado School of Medicine
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Cynthia Neill Epperson, MD is the Robert Freedman Endowed Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus, where she has served as the Executive Director of the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center and Colorado Women’s Behavioral Health and Wellness. In addition, she is Senior Scientific Advisor for the Brain and Behavior Innovation Center. Each of these programs fall under her oversight as Chair of Psychiatry and Neill remains actively engaged in psychoneuroendocrinology research particularly as it relates to mood and cognitive disorders across the female lifespan and contributes to sex differences in neuropsychiatric conditions. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Epperson’s NIH-funded research portfolio has been highly cross- and inter-disciplinary in nature, funded by six of the NIH institutes and the Office of Research on Women’s Health. Her research, on early life stress, gonadal and stress hormones, and sex differences in psychiatric and other medical conditions is described in more than 213 publications and 300 regional, national, and international invited lectures/presentations. Her body of work has led to a greater appreciation of the impact of childhood adversity on physiologic responses during times of hormonal fluctuation as well as gonadal steroid effects on brain and behavior.
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