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Institute affiliate Marie Heffernan honored with the Department of Pediatrics Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship.

The award recognizes faculty who have distinguished themselves with exceptional achievement in research within the past year.

December 3, 2025

Prof. Heffernan’s recent publications include papers in both JAMA Pediatrics and Academic Pediatrics. This works traces recent trends in young people’s mental health, finding that anxiety and depression among U.S. adolescents increased between 2016 and 2022.