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Kelsey Serier, PhD

 

Kelsey Serier, PhD

Portrait of Kelsey Serier

Researcher/Investigator

Women's Health Sciences Division

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Academic Appointment

  • Chobanian & Avedisian Boston University School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)

Education

  • Women’s Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Advanced Fellowship in Women’s Health, 2024
  • University of New Mexico, PhD in Clinical Psychology, 2021
  • VA Boston Healthcare System, Predoctoral Psychology Internship, 2021
  • University of New Mexico, MS in Clinical Psychology, 2016
  • Pacific Lutheran University, BS in Biology and Psychology, 2012

Expertise and Interests

  • Effects of traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder on diabetes-related risk factors and outcomes
  • Gender differences in posttraumatic stress disorder and physical health outcomes
  • Impact of social determinants on trauma-related mental and physical health sequalae
  • Advanced statistical methods

Membership in Professional Societies

  • International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Awards and Honors

  • Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  • Benjamin Franklin Haught Memorial Scholarship Award, University of New Mexico
  • David J. Smith, PhD Psychology Graduate Student Award, University of New Mexico
  • Doctoral Presentation Travel Award, University of New Mexico/li

Selected Publications

Serier, K. N., Magruder, K. M., Spiro, A., Kimerling, R., Frayne, S. M., Kilbourne, A. M., Pless Kaiser, A., & Smith, B. N. (2024). Associations between posttraumatic stress disorder and diabetes in Vietnam-era women veterans in the HealthViEWS Study. Journal of Women's Health, 33(7), 926-937. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2023.0838

Serier, K. N., Zelkowitz, R. L., Smith, B. N., Vogt, D., & Mitchell, K. S. (2023). The Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI): Psychometric evaluation in veteran men and women with trauma exposure. Psychological Assessment, 35(2), 140-151. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001190

Serier, K. N., Vogt, D., Pandey, S., & Smith, B. N. (2022). Analysis of the bidirectional relationships between posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms with physical health functioning in post-9/11 veteran men and women deployed to a war zone. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 162, 111034.

Serier, K. N., Smith, B. N., Cooper, Z., Vogt, D., & Mitchell, K. S. (2022). Disordered eating in sexual minority post‐9/11 United States veterans. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 55(4), 470-480. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23680

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