Sabrina Ford Post-Doctoral Fellow Email: sford3@sas.upenn.edu

Sabrina Ford is currently a post-doctoral fellow, jointly, with the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology and the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include juvenile aftercare, restorative justice, neuropsychological issues of aggression and antisocial personality, neurocognitive substrates in children exposed to cocaine in utero and ethical issues pertaining to the use of medication to reduce aggression. Current research projects include work with Dr. Martha Farah and Dr. Larry Sherman to investigate the development of aggression and antisocial behavior in adolescents, particularly with regard to neurocognitive functioning. Dr. Ford is also a research associate for Dr. Joan McCord and the Jerry Lee Foundation in organizing the Executive Panel on Mentoring sponsored by the Fels Institute of Government, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Coalition For Research In Urban Education. Dr. Ford received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Counseling and Human Development from the University of Iowa. Before coming to the Jerry Lee Center, she coordinated an NIH study on addiction and psychopathy at the Treatment Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded an NIH Small Business and Innovative Research grant as its co-investigator in 1996. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and has practiced privately and at Swarthmore College.