Dr. Ann Manzardo received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of California, Irvine in 2000 and recently completed her MSCR (2012) through the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Manzardo is a Behavioral Pharmacologist who specializes in the field of addiction research with advanced training in biostatistics and expertise in the epidemiology of alcoholism. Dr. Manzardo has established a translational research program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences through which she has directed funded research projects on alcoholism spanning multiple scientific disciplines: clinical, epidemiological and genetic. Her research has emphasized the study of gender disparate effects of inherited biological and neurodevlopmental risk factors for the development of alcoholism and the role of thiamine deficiency in alcohol abuse behaviors. Dr. Manzardo has continued the tradition of collaborative study of the Danish Perinatal Cohort in the Department of Psychiatry with her studies of the influence of premature birth on the development of alcoholism. Dr. Manzardo has recently expanded her research interests to include bioinformatics as it is applied to the genetics of alcoholism.
Ann Manzardo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The University of Kansas School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, Kansas 66160
Phone: 913-588-6473
Email: amanzardo@kumc.edu
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