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About the Office of Fellowship Training

OFT Mission

The mission of the Office of Fellowship Training is:

  • To support and promote a productive and fulfilling research training experience in the NIMH Intramural Research Program
  • To encourage career planning and guide career management through trainee use of Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
  • To provide programs and services to assist trainees in discovering and clarifying career choices
  • To provide opportunities and to encourage trainees to build a professional skill set which enables them to become world leaders in academic and non-academic careers

Come visit our booth and speak with an OFT staff member about the fellowship and training opportunities we offer at the NIH/NIMH. We will be at the following scientific meetings: Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students  (ABRCMS), The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics  (ASPET), Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science  (SACNAS), Society of Biological Psychiatry  (SOBP) and Society for Neuroscience  (SfN).

Trainee Successes: Past & Present

Emma Condy, Ph.D.

Emma Condy, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hofstra University. As a trainee, her research focused on examining the feasibility of using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in populations with neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically intellectual disability, to examine executive function ability in relation to repetitive behaviors. She started this work as a postdoctoral trainee and research fellow in the Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Phenotyping Service under the mentorship of Dr. Audrey thurm from 2018-2023. Dr. Condy was a fellow in the Center on Compulsive Behaviors for the last 3 years of her training at NIMH and received the Seymour S. Kety award for clinical research in 2022.

Dr. Condy began her position as assistant professor at Hofstra University in 2023. In addition to teaching courses in statistics and neuroscience, her research program uses neuroscientific methods with low participant burden (e.g., psychophysiology, fNIRS) to investigate biomarkers of repetitive behaviors and cognitive inflexibility over the course of early development. She hopes to use both in lab and real-world recordings to uncover when and how repetitive behaviors become maladaptive or distressing and to investigate interventions targeting these behaviors when appropriate.

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology, Virginia Tech

M.S. in Psychology, Virginia Tech

A.B. in Biology & Psychology, Bryn Mawr College

Selected Publications

  1. Condy, E. E., Becker, L., Farmer, C., Kaat, A. J., Chlebowski, C., Kozel, B. A., & Thurm, A. (2022). NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery Feasibility in Individuals With Williams Syndrome. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental
  2. Srivastava, S.*, Condy, E.*, Carmody, E., Filip-Dhima, R., Kapur, K., Bernstein, J. A., ... & Developmental Synaptopathies Consortium Sahin Mustafa Kolevzon Alexander Buxbaum Joseph D. Kravis Elizabeth Berry Soorya Latha Thurm Audrey Powell Craig Bernstein Jonathan A. Warfield Simon Dies Kira Siper Paige Hanson Ellen Phillips Jennifer M. (2021). Parent-reported measure of repetitive behavior in Phelan-McDermid syndrome. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 13(1), 53.
  3. Condy, E., Kaat, A. J., Becker, L., Sullivan, N., Soorya, L., Berger, N., ... & Thurm, A. (2021). A novel measure of matching categories for early development: Item creation and pilot feasibility study. Research in developmental disabilities, 115, 103993.

*denotes co-first authors