Ms. LaValle is a biostatistician involved in research spanning across multiple domains. Much of her experience entails brain health and cognitive outcomes from military populations with occupational exposures such as low-level blast including seminal work involving New Zealand breacher training. She specializes in protocol development, study design, statistical analyses, and research regulatory affairs serving as principal investigator, associate investigator, supervisory research biostatistician, biostatistician, protocol manager, research specialist, and consultant across federal, state government and academia. Chrissy has a BS in mathematics from the University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN and MS in applied and computational mathematics from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.