Senior Research Scientist/Assistant Professor of Research
Dr. Preis is a Senior Research Scientist (Assistant Research Professor) with the Department Ob/Gyn and is affiliated with the Department of Psychology and the Program in Public Health. She earned her doctorate in social work 2018 in which she focused on childbirth choices and satisfaction. During her graduate studies, she developed advanced quantitative data analytic skills and gained expertise in mixed methods program evaluation.
Dr. Preis has been collaborating with the Department of Ob/Gyn through her interdisciplinary perinatal-focused research since she came to Stony Brook for a postdoctoral fellowship in 2018. Her primary research interest focuses on uncovering and addressing the roles that social and psychological factors have on perinatal physical and mental health outcomes. Her current research projects include: 1) a longitudinal national birth cohort study on the impacts of maternal stress on perinatal health and fertility and childbirth-related choices (SB-COPE Study; PI), 2) developing clinical tools to assess psychosocial vulnerabilities in prenatal care (PROMOTE Project; PI), and 3) disentangling the effects of life experiences and discrimination on expectations and experiences of prenatal care (PHEED Study; Co-PI). These projects have been funded through several federal and institutional grants Dr. Preis secured and have been highlighted in multiple high impact articles.
In addition to her own research program, in which several Ob/Gyn faculty have been instrumental, Dr. Preis contributes her expertise to Ob/Gyn research projects. In that capacity, she mentors graduate students and assists faculty and trainees in study design, analytic planning, data analysis, and grant and manuscript writing.
Please see Dr. Preis’s Research Biography for more information.
