Christine M Heim
Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Personally Authored Bio:

Christine M. Heim, PhD, is an Associate Professor (with Tenure) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Heim earned her BS, MS, and PhD in psychology at the University of Trier in Germany. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Heim has authored or coauthored more than 90 articles, chapters, and letters on the neurobiology of early-life stress, depression, anxiety, and functional somatic disorders. Her articles are published in prestigious scientific journals such as Journal of the American Medical Association, the Archives of General Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Her work is acknowledged in more than 3500 citations. She is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the American Psychosomatic Society, the Society for Biological Psychiatry, and the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology. In 2008, Dr. Heim was elected Regular Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She is the recipient of more than 10 honors and awards, including two Young Investigator Awards of the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, the 2004 Chaim Danieli Young Professional Award of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, and a 2006 Junior Faculty Research Award of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. In 2007, Dr. Heim was awarded the prestigious Curt P. Richter Award of the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology. She also is the recipient of a NIMH Career Development Award and several other government and foundation grants. She serves on various national and international scientific and editorial review committees.