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Aviva Kristen Anne Olsavsky

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
DepartmentSOM-PSYCH
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0002-7779-1491 Additional info

    Collapse Biography 
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    Harvard University, Cambridge, MassachusettsA.B.06/1998
    UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CaliforniaM.D.06/2012
    National Institutes of Health/Clinical Research Training Fellowship, Bethesda, MarylandResearch Fellowship06/2011
    UCLA/Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPsychiatry Residency06/2015
    University of Colorado School of Medicine/Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, ColoradoChild and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship06/2017
    Developmental Psychobiology Research Group T32 Research Fellowship, Aurora, ColoradoResearch Fellowship06/2019
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    2025Award for Creativity in Psychiatry Education, American College of Psychiatrists
    2024JAACAP Open Editorial Board Triple Q Award - for peer review Quality, Quantity, and Quickness, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Open
    2023MUSC BIRCWH College on Problems of Drug Dependence Travel Award, Medical University of South Carolina
    2021Marianne Wamboldt Mentoring Award, Children's Hospital Colorado
    2020 - 2022NIH Loan Repayment Award, NIH
    2020Society of Biological Psychiatry Early Career Travel Fellowship, Society of Biological Psychiatry
    2019Career Development Institute for Psychiatry, Stanford/University of Pittsburgh
    2019Research Colloquium awardee, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    2016 - 2019NIH Loan Repayment Award, NIH
    2016Educational Outreach Award, American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    2014Robinson Cunningham Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    2014Outstanding Resident Award, National Institute of Mental Health
    2012Member, Alpha Omega Alpha
    2012Louis Jolyon West Award for Excellence in Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
    2011Thomas Detre Senior Medical Student Award in Psychiary, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    2011Campaign for America's Kids Junior Scholar Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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    1H79TI085588     (Comilla Sasson (American Heart Association))Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
    SAMSHA/American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry/Opioid Response Network
    AHA Substance Use Disorder Community Impact Program
    Role: Consultant
    K12DA000357 (PI - Gray, K12 awardee - Olsavsky)     (Aviva K. Olsavsky, MD)Apr 1, 2021 - May 31, 2026
    NIH/NIDA
    Maternal Brain on Cannabis: Implications for Mother-Infant Relationships
    Role: K12 Awardee (PI)

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    1. Erhart A, Watamura S, Olsavsky AK, Dufford A, Tribble R, Yeh T, Kim P. Maternal cortisol concentration is associated with reduced brain activation to infant cry and more intrusive parenting behavior. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2025 Jan; 171:107207. PMID: 39413527.
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    2. Vidal C, Olsavsky AK, Riggs PD. Editorial: Adolescent Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Is Our Wheelhouse. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 Feb; 64(2):99-101. PMID: 38795770.
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    3. Olsavsky AK, Hinckley JD, Vidal C. Editorial: Marijuana Legalization and Suicide in Adolescents and Transitional-Age Youth: Important Future Directions for This Line of Research. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Mar; 63(3):307-309. PMID: 37890663.
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    4. Olsavsky AK, Chirico I, Ali D, Christensen H, Boggs B, Svete L, Ketcham K, Hutchison K, Zeanah C, Tottenham N, Riggs P, Epperson CN. Maternal Childhood Maltreatment, Internal Working Models, and Perinatal Substance Use: Is There a Role for Hyperkatifeia? A Systematic Review. Subst Abuse. 2023; 17:11782218231186371. PMID: 37476500.
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    5. Olsavsky AK, Epperson CN. Recalculating the Risk of Prenatal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research: Previously Unidentified Potential Harms Associated With Urine Pregnancy Testing. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2023 06; 8(6):585-587. PMID: 37286289.
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    6. Batt MM, Olsavsky AK, Dardar S, St John-Larkin C, Johnson RL, Sammel MD. Course of Illness and Treatment Updates for Bipolar Disorder in the Perinatal Period. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2022 02; 24(2):111-120. PMID: 35166993.
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    7. Grande LA, Olsavsky AK, Erhart A, Dufford AJ, Tribble R, Phan KL, Kim P. Postpartum Stress and Neural Regulation of Emotion among First-Time Mothers. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2021 10; 21(5):1066-1082. PMID: 34128217.
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    8. Olsavsky AK, Stoddard J, Erhart A, Tribble R, Kim P. Reported maternal childhood maltreatment experiences, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2021 03 24; 16(4):418-427. PMID: 33438749.
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    9. Kim P, Tribble R, Olsavsky AK, Dufford AJ, Erhart A, Hansen M, Grande L, Gonzalez DM. Associations between stress exposure and new mothers' brain responses to infant cry sounds. Neuroimage. 2020 12; 223:117360. PMID: 32927083.
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    10. Andrew Erhart, Aviva K. Olsavsky, Pilyoung Kim. Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development (Eds. S. Hupp and J. Jewell). Family in Childhood - Parents: Bonding. 2020.
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    11. Olsavsky AK, Stoddard J, Erhart A, Tribble R, Kim P. Neural processing of infant and adult face emotion and maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2019 09 30; 14(9):997-1008. PMID: 31680141.
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    12. Olsavsky AK, Shott ME, DeGuzman MC, Frank GKW. Neural correlates of taste reward value across eating disorders. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2019 06 30; 288:76-84. PMID: 30149963.
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    13. Tseng WL, Bones BL, Kayser RR, Olsavsky AK, Fromm SJ, Pine DS, Leibenluft E, Brotman MA. An fMRI study of emotional face encoding in youth at risk for bipolar disorder. Eur Psychiatry. 2015 Jan; 30(1):94-8. PMID: 25172156.
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    14. Brotman MA, Tseng WL, Olsavsky AK, Fromm SJ, Muhrer EJ, Rutenberg JG, Deveney CM, Adleman NE, Zarate CA, Pine DS, Leibenluft E. Fronto-limbic-striatal dysfunction in pediatric and adult patients with bipolar disorder: impact of face emotion and attentional demands. Psychol Med. 2014 Jun; 44(8):1639-51. PMID: 23930595.
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    15. Olsavsky AK, Telzer EH, Shapiro M, Humphreys KL, Flannery J, Goff B, Tottenham N. Indiscriminate amygdala response to mothers and strangers after early maternal deprivation. Biol Psychiatry. 2013 Dec 01; 74(11):853-60. PMID: 23810622.
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    16. Adleman NE, Kayser RR, Olsavsky AK, Bones BL, Muhrer EJ, Fromm SJ, Pine DS, Zarate C, Leibenluft E, Brotman MA. Abnormal fusiform activation during emotional-face encoding assessed with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Psychiatry Res. 2013 May 30; 212(2):161-3. PMID: 23541333.
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    17. Pereira C, Boyd JB, Olsavsky A, Olsavski A, Gelfand M, Putnam B. Outcomes of complex gunshot wounds to the hand and wrist: a 10-year level I urban trauma center experience. Ann Plast Surg. 2012 Apr; 68(4):374-7. PMID: 22421482.
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    18. Olsavsky AK, Brotman MA, Rutenberg JG, Muhrer EJ, Deveney CM, Fromm SJ, Towbin K, Pine DS, Leibenluft E. Amygdala hyperactivation during face emotion processing in unaffected youth at risk for bipolar disorder. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012 Mar; 51(3):294-303. PMID: 22365465.
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    19. Akman CI, Ichise M, Olsavsky A, Tikofsky RS, Van Heertum RL, Gilliam F. Epilepsy duration impacts on brain glucose metabolism in temporal lobe epilepsy: results of voxel-based mapping. Epilepsy Behav. 2010 Mar; 17(3):373-80. PMID: 20149754.
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    20. Kaufman KR, Olsavsky A. Status epilepticus, electroconvulsive therapy and malignant melanoma. Ir J Psychol Med. 2009 Jun; 26(2):87-89. PMID: 30282269.
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    21. Kaufman KR, Stern L, Mohebati A, Olsavsky A, Hwang J. Ziprasidone-induced priapism requiring surgical treatment. Eur Psychiatry. 2006 Jan; 21(1):48-50. PMID: 16356688.
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