Jeffrey Gassen, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
About
Dr. Jeffrey Gassen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN) focused on analyzing data related to ACE screening, response, and prevention, as well as risk stratification, segmentation, and tiering.
His research areas of focus include social determinants of health, the developmental origins of health and disease, interactions between immune function and stress physiology, and multivariate statistical methods.
Dr. Gassen earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and both an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (Quantitative Methods minor) from Texas Christian University. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Laboratory for Evolutionary Medicine at Baylor University.