Dr. Susan Girdler, is Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Girdler has a long history of research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her clinical research in women’s reproductive mood disorders, including premenstrual dysphoric disorder and perimenopausal depression. Dr. Girdler’s recently funded work examines hormone sensitivity and exposure to stressful life events as predictors of depression risk during the menopause transition and the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on that risk. She is also committed to minority health research and is currently Principal Investigator on an NIH study to test best mentoring practices for racially and ethnically underrepresented biomedical researchers
Susan S. Girdler
