Discussion of Next Steps and Critical Directions for Translation with the NIMH

Marjorie A. Garvey is a child neurologist with additional expertise in movement disorders in childhood. She attended medical school at Trinity College, Dublin, and completed her pediatric training while still in Ireland. She returned to the United States to complete a Child Neurology Fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center and a fellowship in Pediatric Movement Disorders in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. Her research at NIH focused on translating paradigms used to understand motor control in adults to pediatric populations. She then moved to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC to continue her research in pediatric movement disorders with a rehabilitation focus.
In 2008 she returned to the NIMH as a Program Officer in the Division of Developmental Translational Research. As Program Officer, she manages and promotes research on early-phase clinical trials focused on psychosocial intervention development.

She is the NIMH representative on the Senior Leadership Group for the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR); she co-chairs the Trans-NIH Catalyzing Translation Workgroup of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR-CC); and she co-founded and co-chairs a NIMH DEIAA grass-roots group (Changing Hearts and Minds) focused on providing a safe place to understand and discuss ways to end racism and other forms of discrimination.