Principal Investigator
Meredith Gansner
Meredith Gansner is an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and attending child psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on adolescent problematic Internet use and high-risk digital media use. For this work, she has been awarded a Dupont Warren Fellowship Grant, an Eleanor and Miles Shore Faculty Development Award through Harvard Medical School, and pilot funding through an NIMH ALACRITY Center grant. Most recently, she was the recipient of a K23 award through NIDA to study the relationship between digital media and substance use using digital phenotyping. She is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry media committee and has written articles about problematic digital media use for The Psychiatric Times, Cognoscenti, The Boston Globe and Slate magazine.
Lab Members
Prakruthi Nikam
Prakruthi Nikam serves as a Clinical Research Assistant within the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she holds a major in Psychology and a minor in Educational Studies. Following her undergraduate studies, Prakruthi joined the Female Athlete Program at BCH, where she engaged in mental health and physical health research focused on transgender and gender diverse youth. With a passion for conducting mental health research in pediatric populations, she aspires to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology as she progresses in her career.
William Wang
William graduated from Boston University’s College of Engineering in 2014 with a BS in biomedical engineering. As part of his undergraduate thesis, he conducted research in cell tissue engineering, investigating the interactions between smooth muscle cells and thermosensitive, biocompatible substrates. After graduation, William decided to enter the finance field as a mergers and acquisitions analyst in a private equity firm. Currently, he has pivoted out of finance and is pursuing an MS in Medical Sciences.
Stephanie Kynch
Stephanie Kynch earned her BS in Psychology from Syracuse University in 2022. Currently enrolled in the Medical Science program at Boston University as a master's student, she is actively pursuing her goal of applying to medical schools.