Jacqueline-Marie Ferland, PhD

Dr. Jacqueline-Marie Ferland is an Instructor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she studies the effects of adolescent cannabis exposure on psychiatric vulnerability using translational animal models and cutting-edge molecular techniques. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia where her research investigated the involvement of risky decision making on addiction susceptibility using complex cognitive behavioral assays, self-administration, and DREADDs to explore dopamine’s role in the expression of disadvantageous choice. In addition to being an academic, she loves communicating science to a broader audience, where the facts can have an impact, and science can be part of the dialogue.