Jamie Edgin

Jamie Edgin is a Psychologist specializing in the area of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, working at the intersection of memory science, education, and policy. Dr. Edgin is the Chair and Professor in the Department of Psychology. For her work in the community, she received the University of Arizona's Koffler Prize for Outreach in 2018. Leveraging over two decades of experience in the development and validation of cognitive and memory assessments in developing children and special populations, the Memory Development and Policy Lab aims to translate the best practices for assessment and education into better procedures and policies for full inclusion and equity for all children in school, medical, and forensic systems. Dr. Edgin's focus is sexual abuse prevention, including the improvement of educational practices and forensic interviewing methods with children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In 2014, she was awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Grant to study sleep disturbance in at-risk infants. She has been continuously funded by the NIH/NICHD through PI led and collaborative grants since 2016. Dr. Edgin is a first generation college student, born in the upper Appalachian mountains in PA.

Research in the Memory Development and Policy lab is made possible by the generous support of the Foundation Jerome Lejeune, the National Institutes of Health, and through the generous support of donors, including a gift made in memory of Brenda DeSliva.