Jennifer Nicoloro-SantaBarbara, PhD

Board Member

Dr. Jennifer Nicoloro-SantaBarbara is a health psychologist whose research focuses on the behavioral and biological pathways (e.g., immune dysregulation) underlying major mood disorders. She has a particular interest in understanding the increased burden of depression in mastocytosis. She has published some of the first reports documenting the prevalence and magnitude of depression and anxiety as well as patterns of coping and levels of stigma, loneliness, illness intrusiveness, and disease-specific stressors in individuals with a mast cell disease. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Health psychology from Stony Brook University. After graduating she pursued postdoctoral training in the rigorous NIMH T32 Trainee Program at UCLA in Biobehavioral Issues in Mental and Physical Health. She is currently an Investigator in the Mood and Psychosis Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry, an Affiliated Investigator at the Mastocytosis Center in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the 2022 recipient of Harvard Medical School’s Kaplen Fellowship in Depression. Jennifer has a personal connection to TMS as her mother has indolent systemic mastocytosis.

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