Thaddeus Pace
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

Personally Authored Bio:

Dr. Pace came to Atlanta in 2004, and is now Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine at Emory. He is also a member of the Neuroscience faculty in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. His studies explore endocrine and immune system function in people who suffer from major depression, as well as endocrine and immune changes that result from adverse experiences during the formative years of life. His recent findings suggest that depressed people with a history of early adverse experience have enhanced inflammatory immune responses to stress. Such stress responses may be an important part of the underlying body changes that promote alterations in mood. Dr. Pace also investigates the effectiveness of novel interventions that may limit inflammatory immune and endocrine responses to stress, such as the practice of compassion meditation (in collaboration with Charles Raison, M.D.), and novel anti-inflammatory compounds (in collaboration with Andrew H. Miller, M.D. and Hyunsuk Shim, Ph.D.). Dr. Pace is the winner of a 2006 National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator award. His work is also supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Pace was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. in Psychobiology from Albright College (Reading, PA), and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, CO).