Katie A. McLaughlin is an American clinical psychologist and expert on how stress, trauma, and other adverse events, such as natural disorders or pandemics, affect behavioral and brain development during childhood and adolescence. McLaughlin is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. McLaughlin received the Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in 2013 and the Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Early Career Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology in 2014. In 2016, McLaughlin won the Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association and the Klerman Prize for Exceptional Clinical Research from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Source: Wikipedia (en)