Sarah Watamura
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Sarah Enos Watamura, Ph.D. Is the Psychology Department Chair and Director of the Child Health & Development Laboratory at the University of Denver. She is also the co-director of the Stress, Early Experience and Development (SEED) Research Center, and co-Founder of Recalibrate Solutions. Dr. Watamura has been conducting research on physiologic stress in young children for more than 15 years, and is part of the international community of scholars who focus their research efforts on explicating the contributing and buffering factors associated with early life stress as well as its consequences.
The work being conducted in Dr. Watamura’s lab has been continuously supported by federal agencies and national foundations and is published in high profile journals. She is currently part of the Buffering Toxic Stress Consortium funded by the Administration for Children and Families, working together to best measure toxic stress and assessing promising interventions to mitigate the effects of toxic stress. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from Cornell University. |