Katie Burkhouse

Katie Burkhouse, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, Child Clinical Division and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her program of research broadly focuses on identifying behavioral-brain risk phenotypes and preventive interventions for youth depressive disorders. Much of this work focuses on utilizing multiple levels of analysis (i.e., behavioral, ecological momentary assessment, EEG, fMRI) to identify cognitive-affective and reward processing styles involved in the transmission of depression from parents to their offspring. A second focus of her research involves applying this mechanism-based work to prevention efforts for youth at high risk for internalizing disorders. The ultimate goal of this work is to improve the identification and prevention of internalizing disorders in children and adolescents. Burkhouse received her doctoral degree from Binghamton University (SUNY) and completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral research fellowship in the neuroscience of mental health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Burkhouse has received federal funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and foundation funding from Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, American Psychological Foundation, and Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD) to support her research. She was also recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science and won the Donald Klein Early Investigator Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). Burkhouse enjoys spending time with her family, including her two sons Niko and Keegan, and dog Harris.