Christine Hooker, PhD

Christine I. Hooker, PhD, received her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University in 2002. She completed her clinical training at the VA Northern California and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow and later a research professor in the Neuroscience Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2007, Hooker joined the Psychology Department at Harvard University as a faculty member, before joining Rush University Medical Center as the Stanley G. Harris Family Professor of Psychiatry.

Hooker's research uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate neural mechanisms that facilitate social functioning in healthy adults and patients with schizophrenia disorder. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Health, the MIND Institute and the National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression.