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Faculty
Member
 Karen A. Weissbecker, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurology, Human Genetics Program) Dr. Weissbecker graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology, from the University of Virginia in 1982. She received her Ph.D. in Human Genetics in 1988 from the Medical College of Virginia. From 1988 - 1990, She was an NIH Postdoctural Fellow in the Medical Genetics Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1990, she accepted a second NIH postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biometry and Genetics at Louisiana State University under the supervision of Dr. Robert C. Elston. She became a Diplomate Certified in Medical Genetics in September, 1990. Dr. Weissbecker became an instructor in the Department of Biometry and Genetics at LSU in February, 1992, and in March of 1994, she was named Co-Director of the Children's Hospital Neurofibromatosis Clinic. In 1994, Dr. Weissbecker was promoted to Assistant Professor at LSU. In 1996, she moved to Tulane University. Her research focuses on the genetic epidemiology of psychiatric and neurological disorders. She is the primary investigator of a project investigating the genetics of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and its relationship to other psychiatric disorders. This research is funded by a five year FIRST award grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. She is also doing research to locate epilepsy genes. |
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