2025 Annual MeetingSeptember 3-5, 2025 | Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 921 Canal Street | New Orleans, LouisianaRegister for ISPNE Annual ConferenceBook your stay at the Ritz-Carlton with ISPNE Member RatesImportant Dates
Psychoneuroendocrinology at the Intersection of Science and Society: Navigating Bridges between Stress & HealthOur 2025 conference theme will give ISPNE the opportunity to bridge across the many intersecting disciplinary borders of psychoneuroendocrinology. The theme reflects that ISPNE stands at a crossroads where our interdisciplinary strengths can powerfully buttress neighboring disciplines through emphasizing preclinical work and its translation as well as by providing a scientific foundation for advocacy, policy, and public awareness. New Orleans has a unique identity, and yet remains reminiscent of many cultural influences such as Spanish, French, Creole as well as resistance to colonization and marginalization amongst enslaved Black and Indigenous peoples. The 2025 ISPNE conference in New Orleans also embraces identity and intersectionality by hosting events that intend to help psychoneuroendocrinology forge pathways between science and society toward better health.
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Meet the Conference OrganizersDr. Elizabeth Shirtcliff: Co-Chair for the Scientific Program Committee ![]() Dr. Elizabeth (Birdie) Shirtcliff is proud to serve the ISPNE community as the Co-Chair for the Scientific Program Committee for ISPNE New Orleans, 2025. Birdie is a research professor at the Center for Translational Neuroscience and department of psychology at the University of Oregon. She is the editor in chief of ISPNE’s journal Psychoneuroendocrinology and consulting editor for its companion journal Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology. In 2023, Birdie was honored to receive the Dirk Hellhammer award for “When virtual reality becomes psychoneuroendocrine reality: A stress (or) review”. Birdie received her doctorate in biobehavioral health from Pennsylvania State University and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in affective neuroscience. She uses a variety of noninvasive tools to investigate the interplay of biological and behavioral factors unfolding across children’s lives, especially in adolescence.
Dr. Shannin N. Moody: Co-Chair for the Scientific Community ![]() Dr. Shannin N. Moody is a postdoctoral researcher in Neurology SOM at LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans. She earned her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Iowa State University, focusing on racialized stress and hormone measures. Her research explores the effects of cumulative stress, on multiple sclerosis andthe intersection of biological stress systems with racial health disparities. Expanding into perinatal neurological health, Dr. Moody examines how biopsychosocial stressors influence parent-infant outcomes. Committed to racial justice and patient health equity, her interdisciplinary work bridges gaps in understanding race, sex, and stress-induced health inequities.
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Chelsea Lavassani Chelsea Lavassani is a Research Associate at the Center for Translational Neuroscience. Her work focuses on studying the physiological responses to stress in adolescents through hormones and neuroendocrine reactivity, and researching biomarkers that can pave the way for future treatments, interventions, policy and advocacy. She is also the Chief Operating Officer for the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. |