Stacy Drury, M.D., Ph.D.

Current Positions: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Medical Directorship, Pediatric Consult Liaison Psychiatry, Tulane Hospital for Children Tulane Cancer Center, Contributing Member

Education and Training:
University of Virginia , B.A, 1993, Religious Studies and Biology
University of Michigan , M.S. 1996, Human Genetics
Louisiana State University Health Science Center , Ph.D. 2000, Genetics and Biometry Louisiana State University Health Science Center , 2002, M.D.
Tulane School of Medicine, Residency in General Psychiatry, 2002-2005.
Tulane School of Medicine, Residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005-2007.

Years at Tulane:
Since 2002

Interests:
Dr. Drury’s clinical interest focuses on children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses and the psychiatric and adjustment issues associated with medical illness and medical traumatic stress. In addition she is the medical director for a camp for children, and their siblings with cancer and other blood disorders. Current collaborative clinical research projects include validation of a rating instrument for the psychosocial assessment of pediatric solid organ transplant patients and exploring the utility of a screening instrument for psychosocial stressors in recently diagnosed pediatric cancer patients. Her basic research interest lies in understanding the impact of a early life stress as a result of a variety of sources including single incident trauma, hurricane Katrina, social deprivation due to institutional care, and cancer treatment on brain development. She is exploring gene x environment interactions, epigenetic modifications, and immune changes in this process. The overall goal of her research is to understand how early life stress results on neurobiological changes that interact to create a lasting vulnerability to psychological illness.

Representative Publications:
Drury, S.S., Scheeringa, M.S., Zeanah, C.H. (in press). The traumatic impact of Hurricane Katrina on children in New Orleans. Clinics of North America.

Kurima K., Peters, L.M., Yang, Y., Riazuddin, S., Ahmed, Z.M., Naz, S., Arnaud, D., Drury, S., Mo, J., Makishima, T., Ghosh, M., Menon P. S. N., Deshmukh, D., Oddoux, C., Ostrer, H., Khan, S., Riazuddin, S., Deininger, P. L., Hampton, L. L., Sullivan, S. L., Battey, Jr., J. F., Keats, B. J. B., Wilcox, E. R., Friedman, T. B. & Griffith, A. J. (2002) Dominant and recessive deafness caused by mutations of a novel gene, TMC1, required for cochlear hair-cell function. Nature Genetics 30(3):277-284.

Drury, S. S., Salipathan, K., & Warrier, R. (2000) CNS involvement of EBV related lymphoproliferative disease. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. 22(2):167-170.

Phone: (504) 988-5402
Fax: (504) 988-4264
E-mail: sdrury@tulane.edu

5/7/08