Amery Treble-Barna

Dr. Treble-Barna is a tenure-stream associate professor, pediatric neuropsychologist, and neuroscientist. Her clinical research program aims to account for unexplained heterogeneity in outcomes following pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI), with the long-term goal of moving the field towards precision medicine to improve individual prognostication, predict response to rehabilitation, and identify novel targets for treatment development.

Dr. Treble-Barna is Principal Investigator of the Epigenetic Effects on pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (EETR) study, which has been enrolling since 2017 and consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2019 (K01HD097030; R01NS135492). The aims of the project are to examine DNA methylation (a major epigenetic regular of gene expression) in association with acute TBI occurrence, long-term neurobehavioral outcomes, and psychosocial adversity.

The Treble-Barna Lab for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Research is located at The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.