About
Erin E. Masterson, PhD, MPH, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) at the University of Washington School of Public Health (UW SPH). She is trained as an epidemiologist and collaborates with the UW Prenatal and Early Childhood Pathways to Health (ECHO-PATHWAYS) study team and the Immune Behavioral Health Clinic at Stanford University. Dr. Masterson’s interests include pediatric epidemiology, the developmental origins of health and disease, and the social determinants of health. Her research has focused on developing developmental dental enamel defects as a marker of systemic biologic disruption during early life, and thus, a potential predictor of health risk throughout the life course. She is currently studying pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and related inflammatory brain conditions, patient populations that may have a disproportionate prevalence of enamel defects. Dr. Masterson is the founding Director of the International PANS Registry (IPR), a community-based research partnership with the PANS patient community and the largest centralized epidemiological database of information for the broad spectrum of those with PANS-like conditions that lack diagnostic biomarkers and their siblings. Her current research relies on data from the IPR’s longitudinal epidemiology study, the NIH-funded Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) study, and the Stanford PANS Program.