Dr. Peterson is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University and is the Director of Training in Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity in the Office of the Senior Vice President of Research. She leads a program of research focused on delineating causal processes—genetic and environmental—underlying major psychiatric disorders with a focus on depression and comorbid traits. Dr. Peterson holds expertise in polygenic risk score profiling methodology, cross-ancestry and cross-cultural studies, and clinical and genetic associations between complex traits.