{"id":4462,"date":"2025-12-08T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:11:34","slug":"doctoral-candidate-alice-woolard-successfully-defends-her-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/2025\/12\/doctoral-candidate-alice-woolard-successfully-defends-her-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral candidate Alice Woolard successfully defends her thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alice\u2019s research in the Linnstaedt Lab focused on three important topics: 1 – understanding the relationship between childhood trauma and chronic\u00a0post traumatic\u00a0pain outcomes in adulthood, 2 – identifying microRNA expression changes in the early aftermath of traumatic stress exposure, and 3 – developing a protocol for a pilot randomized clinical trial aimed at understanding whether exogenous administration of sex hormones in the early aftermath of trauma can prevent chronic pain development. \u00a0Her work on these three disparate but complementary projects demonstrate her ability to perform a variety of research methods including statistical analyses, bioinformatics-based analyses, and study planning and coordination. We greatly appreciate her contributions to the lab\u2019s overall mission of identifying novel therapeutic strategies for the prevention of chronic pain and overlapping neuropsychiatric outcomes of trauma.<\/p>\n

We are incredibly proud of Alice’s accomplishments and can\u2019t wait to see what she achieves next in her scientific journey.\u00a0Congratulations, Dr. Woolard!<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \"PhD\"Lab\"Cake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice\u2019s research in the Linnstaedt Lab focused on three important topics: 1 – understanding the relationship between childhood trauma and chronic\u00a0post traumatic\u00a0pain outcomes in adulthood, 2 – identifying microRNA expression changes in the early aftermath of traumatic stress exposure, and 3 – developing a protocol for a pilot randomized clinical trial aimed at understanding whether … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116376,"featured_media":4463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/Alices-Dissertation-10.31.25.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/Alices-Dissertation-10.31.25-300x221.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/Alices-Dissertation-10.31.25.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/Alices-Dissertation-10.31.25.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/Alices-Dissertation-10.31.25-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"PhD Candidate Alice Woolard Defends her PhD","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}