Christina Metcalf PhD

Background 

Dr. Metcalf received her PhD in 2019 from the University of Colorado Boulder and currently sees patients at the CU Medicine Department of Psychiatry Colorado Center for Women’s Behavioral Health and Wellness.  

Research + Funding 

In 2021, she began her Ludeman Center-funded project, “Stress Mechanisms Underlying Childhood Adversity Effects on Cognition and Mood in Menopause.” Her research focuses on how a stressful childhood can impact a person’s mental and physical health long into adulthood. This project aims to understand how childhood adversity creates this risk through a series of assessments of mood, cognitive function, and biological response to a current stressor. The results of this project will inform interventions to help women with childhood adversity build resilience to stress as they proceed through the menopause transition. She believes the Ludeman Center’s investment in early-career scientists helps to create connections and provide support to meaningfully progress women’s health. 

Transforming Women’s Health 

Inspired by her amazing clients, Dr. Metcalf continues to contribute to the advancement of women’s health research through patient care and critical research focusing on cognition and mood in menopause.