Alexis Duncan, Ph.D., M.P.H. received Bachelor’s and Master’s of music degrees in Voice and Opera Performance from the Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston, Illinois, in 1994 and 1995, respectively. In 2000, she enrolled in Master of Public Health program at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health and began the doctoral program in Public Health Studies there the following year. She received her Master of Public Health degree in 2002 and her Ph.D. in 2006, both with a concentration in epidemiology. During the course of her studies, Alexis worked on several grant projects funded by NIAAA and NIDA looking at risk factors for substance use disorders in a genetically informative sample of offspring of Vietnam Era veteran twins, in addition to her dissertation research on nosology and psychiatric comorbidity in women with eating disorders.

Dr. Duncan is currently an NIAAA funded postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine. Her primary research interest is studying the relationship between body weight and eating disorders and substance use, abuse and dependence using genetically informative study designs.

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MPH- Saint Louis University
PhD- Saint Louis University

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