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Jamie Maguire, Ph.D., is Professor of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine and was named the Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor in Neuroscience in 2019. Dr. Maguire is a member of the Graduate Biomedical Sciences Pharmacology and Neuroscience programs. She is the Director of the Building Diversity in Biomedical Sciences (BDBS) program and has a strong commitment to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM and beyond. Her current research focuses on a systems physiology approach to the study of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, focusing on epilepsy and mood disorders, and has led to successful clinical trials for postpartum depression treatments. She received a BS in neuroscience and BA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from George Washington University. Dr. Maguire trained as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA investigating the ability of steroid hormones and neurosteroids to modulate GABAergic inhibition and the impact on mood disorders and epilepsy.