Faculty

Helen Milojevich, PhD

(405) 271-8858

Helen-Milojevich@ouhsc.edu

Dr. Helen Milojevich is an Assistant Professor at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Pediatrics.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine and completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Dr. Milojevich’s research seeks to answer the question: how does social context shape the way children learn, particularly for children exposed to adverse social contexts (e.g., child maltreatment). To address this question, Dr. Milojevich utilizes a multi-method approach employing longitudinal designs; observational, behavioral, and self-report measures; physiology; and, more recently, daily experience sampling and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Collectively, her work identifies risk and resilience factors and highlights the value of combining biologically-informed methodological tools to examine how social processes work in concert with emotional, cognitive, and biological processes to shape children’s well-being.