Craig Ramey, Ph.D.

Research Professor and Distinguished Research Scholar of Human Development, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Science, Virginia Tech

Research Professor of Human Development, College of Liberal Arts and Human Science, Virginia Tech

Research Professor of Pediatrics, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Contact

Office phone: 540-526-2080

Office location: R2012

Email address: ctramey@vtc.vt.edu

Craig Ramey’s program of research centers on the role of experience – across the human lifespan - in the development of competence and robust health. His approach relies largely on experimental interventions in education, psychology, and pediatrics that provide rigorous tests of plausible developmental mechanisms of stability and change within dynamic, multilayered ecologies. In addition, he engages both epidemiological and longitudinal datasets to provide a broad contextual framework for identifying the multiple, inter-related conditions that influence biopsychosocial risk, protective, and facilitating factors. Ramey’s research findings are highly relevant to many national and international policy issues. Accordingly, he has extended his research into topics that address “going-to-scale” and rapid application of scientific findings that can prevent disabilities, promote children’s education and health outcomes, and improve family and community well being. This new field of “implementation science” represents a new frontier for the neurosciences and for educating health practitioners and policymakers. As Ramey says, the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute affords him a unique opportunity to pursue his research interests in collaboration with scientists, scholars, and practitioners who themselves are challenging old paradigms and forging a new frontier in human developmental science.

For a more complete listing of Craig Ramey's publications, visit PubMed.

Education and Training

West Virginia University: PhD , Life Span Developmental Psychology
University of California Berkeley: Postdoctoral fellowship , Human Development
University of Southern California: Research Fellow , Aging and Development
West Virginia University: MA , Psychology
West Virginia Psychology: BA , Psychology

Previous Positions

Georgetown University Founding Director, Georgetown University Center on Health and Education
Distinguished Professor, Health Studies and Psychiatry
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Founding Director, Civitan International Research Center
University Professor of Psychology, Pediatrics, Sociology, Nursing, Maternal and Child Health, and Neurobiology
Director, Alabama's University Affiliated Program for Developmental Disabilities
Director, Developmental Psychology Graduate Training Program