Lab Alumni

Stirling joined the lab in 2020 and quickly became an essential member of the lab. During Stirling’s time in the lab, he was very productive publishing three first-author papers. His first paper looked at the association between discrimination stress and suicidality in preadolescent children (Argabright et al., 2022, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) and his second paper explored the association of racial/ethnic discrimination and pubertal development in early adolescence (Argabright et al., 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology).

 

After two years in the lab, Stirling left for the MD/PhD program at Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

Ingrid began working with the BarziLab in 2020 as a student researcher while she was pursing her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. While in the lab, Ingrid worked diligently to do the groundwork for the Exposome project, as well as assisted on the CovidSilience project studying resilience during the pandemic. 

 

Ingrid graduated with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience with minors in psychology and healthcare management in 2022. After graduation, Ingrid was awarded a Fulbright US Student Program grant to conduct research in Germany at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she will be studying the role of cultural values and resilience in transgenerational trauma of Holocaust survivor offspring. 

Sara started research with the BarziLab in 2022 while she was a medical student within the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 

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Sara is currently a Psychiatry Resident at Georgetown University Hospital and is interested in Community Psychiatry and Women’s Mental Health. 

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Jeremy began working with the BarziLab in November of 2020, following his interest in the role of the environment in mental health. While working in the lab Jeremy was a fourth year MD-MPH student at the Perelman Medical School. During his time in the lab, Jeremy worked on the CovidSilience Project and studied the protective effects that urban greenspace has had on the mental health of study participants throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. His work led to his first-author paper on greenspace published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (Wortzel et al., 2021).

 

After graduating Medical School, Jeremy started his Psychiatry Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Massachusetts.

Dallas began working with the BarziLab in 2020 as a student researcher while she was pursing her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. In the Barzi Lab, Dallas worked ion a project examining the association between racial discrimination and suicidality in preadolescent children. 

 

Dallas graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. After graduation, Dallas started working at the Penn Netter Center as an Educational Pipeline Program Coordinator. In the future, Dallas plans to pursue a medical degree focusing on social determinants of health