Tonya WhiteTonya White, MD, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam. She received Bachelors (Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah) and Masters (University of llinois) degrees in Electrical Engineering prior to completing medical school at the University of Illinois and later a Ph.D. from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her residency involved a combined pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry program (Triple Board Program) at the University of Utah, after which she completed a research fellowship in neuroimaging under the mentorship of Nancy C. Andreasen. Following a junior faculty position at the University of Minnesota, she joined the faculty at Erasmus University Medical Center in 2009 to set up and direct the neuroimaging program in the Generation R study, which has become the largest neuroimaging birth cohort in the world. Her primary focus is in pediatric population neuroimaging. Her primary research goals are to apply neuroimaging techniques to obtaining a better understanding of genetic and environmental factors associated with typical and atypical brain development in hopes that this will translate into either preventing or decreasing the morbidity of severe psychiatric disorders. Read More Read Less