Linda Rinaman

Linda Rinaman received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and subsequently pursued postdoctoral training with Pat Levitt, Gloria Hoffman, and Joseph Verbalis.  She currently is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, where she has been a faculty member since 1995, and is co-director of the graduate training program within the cross-departmental Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh.  Her research program has been funded by the NIH since 1995 to examine the postnatal development and functional organization of central visceral circuits that participate in stress and anxiety responses in rats, including stress-induced hypophagia.  She is an elected Board Member of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, which honored her in 2003 with the Alan N. Epstein Research Award.