Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics,
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Beatrice Wood, PhD, ABPP is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, and is Co-Director of the Child and Family Asthma Studies Center, where she conducts NIH funded research examining psychobiological pathways by which family relational stress impacts child and adolescent emotion dysregulation and asthma. She earned her BA and PhD, and completed her Internship in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a specialty boarded in Family Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. As Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, she served as Psychiatry Consultation Liaison to the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she worked clinically with children and families, trained Pediatric Residents in the treatment of psychosomatic aspects of GI disease, and conducted research on family stress effects on Inflammatory Bowel Disease. At JSBMS she teaches and supervises Child Psychiatry Residents in assessing and intervening with families of chronically ill children. She serves as research mentor for medical students, residents , fellows and junior faculty. She has served as Chair of the Appointments, Promotions and Tenure committee of JSMBS and currently serves on the DEI Committee. She has been NIH funded for research since 1996, reviews for several journals, and in 2000 she received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the field of Family Psychology and Health.
