Craig Ramey, Ph.D.

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.

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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

Awards and Honors

• LEAD Virginia Class of 2015
• Invited Martin Luther King Campus-Wide Address, 2015
• United Way of Roanoke Valley Community Impact Award, 2015
• Fordham University Excellence in Early Childhood Award, 2013
• Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2013

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