Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D.

Dr. Anna Rose Childress is a Research Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Director of the Brain-Behavioral Vulnerabilities Laboratory at the Center for Studies of Addiction, with over four decades of NIDA-funded research on brain reward circuits and craving in substance use disorders. She is now advancing into psilocybin research, contributing to Penn's clinical trial of psilocybin for opioid use disorder and publicly addressing regional barriers to psychedelic-assisted therapy.