Anna Rommel Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, I have been instrumental in the conception and execution of a prospective longitudinal pregnancy cohort at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC to establish the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on maternal and child outcomes. I am particularly interested in exploring the extent to which COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic disproportionately impacts pregnant women from underserved communities and their children. I am further continuing to pursue the study of perinatal and female reproductive (mental) health using large-scale international data sets employing epidemiological methods. Additionally, I am continuing to work on understanding the effects of common prenatal exposures on fetal and child (neuro)development in large-scale longitudinal datasets using a range of imaging modalities (e.g., 3D ultrasound and EEG).

During my time as postdoctoral fellow and Instructor, I coordinated a pilot project examining how common environmental exposures in a woman’s everyday environment, including phthalates, acetaminophen and antidepressant medication, may affect fetal and child (neuro)development. I further I initiated investigations of psychopathology in understudied population, including a study into the risk for psychopathology following menopause using Swedish national health registry data and a study of trauma, daily stressors of resettlement and resilience in the refugee population.

For my first postdoctoral position, I worked on a multi-site European Commission–funded randomised control trial called CoCA to establish the effect sizes of bright light therapy and exercise, known to modulate circadian rhythm and dopaminergic transmission, in adolescents and young adults with ADHD targeting general health improvement and ADHD symptoms, as well as the prevention of obesity and depressive symptoms. Other research projects included the investigation of the molecular basis for the association between cognitive performance and ADHD as a clinical disorder using polygenic risk score analysis, and the study of preterm birth as a risk factor for cognitive-neurophysiological impairments associated with ADHD. Find out more at https://coca-project.eu/

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Social, Genetic And Developmental Psychiatry

During my PhD, I examined the association of ADHD with the environmental risk and protective factors preterm birth and exercise.

Master Of Science (Msc), Social, Genetic And Developmental Psychiatry, Distinction

My MSc thesis focused on establishing the genetic and environmental influences on the developmental relationship between ADHD symptoms.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Psychology, First Class

BSc project title: “Abnormal avoidance behaviour to non-human animal faces in children with autism spectrum disorder”