Dr. Elizabeth Hoge is a clinical assistant at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Related Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital. She studies biological changes that occur in the body as a result of stress, anxiety and trauma, which may serve as markers for anxiety disorders and may elucidate pathways that could be targeted for novel pharmacologic therapies. She is also interested in identifying biological markers of resilience that protect some people from developing post-traumatic stress disorder after a trauma.

Dr. Hoge has received awards from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit of the National Institute of Mental Health related to her work in anxiety disorders. She also received a Harvard Medical School Dupont Warren Fellowship award to study the effect of treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Recently, Dr. Hoge received a five-year NIH grant to measure the effect of mindfulness meditation on anxiety and stress. She will be incorporating biological markers of stress, such as stress hormones and inflammatory markers, and will measure how the practice of mindfulness meditation may effect these biomarkers, which may partially explain the beneficial health effects from meditation.