Lisa H. Conti, Ph.D

Dr. Lisa Conti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Sciences at the Frank H. Netter, MD School of Medicine. She is a Behavioral Neuroscientist, and as such, has a considerable teaching role in the first year Neuroscience block. She is also the co-coordinator of the Neurology/Psychiatry block in year two. Dr. Conti also teaches for the biostatistics portion of the SRCC course and has a number of other roles in this course. Additionally, she is a co-coordinator for the Basic, Translational and Clinical Research concentration. She is the Capstone mentor or co-mentor for a number of medical students. Dr. Conti offers a selective course in Stress and Disease.
Dr. Conti did her PhD at the University of Vermont. She did post-doctoral work, and later became a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego. Subsequently, she became a faculty member at the University of Connecticut Health Center where she ran a lab in which the effects of stress on behavioral models of psychiatric disorders were studied. This work was supported by NIH grants. At Netter, Dr. Conti conducts basic research in the laboratory and is available as a student mentor on this research. Currently, she is part of a collaboration with Yale to study the effects of stroke on the morphology and gene expression profile of astrocytes.
Dr. Conti is interested in Addiction Medicine and is developing a 4-year curriculum to educate and engage medical students on the issues surrounding substance use disorder. She is the faculty advisor for the Addiction Medicine Interest Group. This group is very engaged and hosts a number of speakers and events at the SOM.