Biography
Dr. Tomas is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology in the Institute for Health and Equity and Data Scientist in the Comprehensive Injury Center at MCW. Dr. Tomas earned her PhD in Neuroscience in 2020 from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee under the supervision of Dr. Christine Larson in the Affective Neuroscience Lab.
Though a neuroscientist by training Dr. Tomas has extensive experience applying complex statistical approaches and machine learning techniques to “big-data” sources beyond neuroimaging. She has evaluated biological, neural, behavioral, and socioenvironmental domains to uncover the complex influences underlying differential mental health trajectories post-trauma. She uses cutting-edge statistical and data science applications with large-scale datasets from consortiums and databases to further understand the complex dynamics of post-trauma outcomes. Dr. Tomas' current research focuses on contextual factors that may influence injury and violence such as geospatial and social networks.
Publications
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Scoring the Life Events Checklist: Comparison of three scoring methods.
(Weis CN, Webb EK, Stevens SK, Larson CL, deRoon-Cassini TA.) Psychol Trauma. 2022 May;14(4):714-720 PMID: 34166045 PMCID: PMC8702580 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85117071455 06/25/2021
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(Weis CN, Webb EK, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL.) Biol Psychiatry. 2022 03 01;91(5):470-477 PMID: 34561028 PMCID: PMC8801541 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85115815261 09/26/2021
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A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat.
(Weis CN, Bennett KP, Huggins AA, Parisi EA, Gorka SM, Larson C.) Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2022 02 15;17(2):187-197 PMID: 34244809 PMCID: PMC8847906 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85124635275 07/11/2021
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(Fitzgerald JM, Webb EK, Weis CN, Huggins AA, Bennett KP, Miskovich TA, Krukowski JL, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL.) Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2022 02;7(2):139-149 PMID: 34478884 PMCID: PMC8825698 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118738043 09/04/2021
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(Webb EK, Bird CM, deRoon-Cassini TA, Weis CN, Huggins AA, Fitzgerald JM, Miskovich T, Bennett K, Krukowski J, Torres L, Larson CL.) JAMA Netw Open. 2022 01 04;5(1):e2144759 PMID: 35072718 PMCID: PMC8787596 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85123877933 01/25/2022
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(Webb EK, Ward RT, Mathew AS, Price M, Weis CN, Trevino CM, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL.) Journal of Traumatic Stress. 2022 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85125536623 01/01/2022
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Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults.
(Webb EK, Weis CN, Huggins AA, Fitzgerald JM, Bennett K, Bird CM, Parisi EA, Kallenbach M, Miskovich T, Krukowski J, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL.) Neurobiol Stress. 2021 Nov;15:100385 PMID: 34471656 PMCID: PMC8390770 09/03/2021
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Neural substrates of human fear generalization: A 7T-fMRI investigation.
(Huggins AA, Weis CN, Parisi EA, Bennett KP, Miskovic V, Larson CL.) Neuroimage. 2021 10 01;239:118308 PMID: 34175426 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85109039158 06/28/2021
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(Weis CN, Webb EK, Huggins AA, Kallenbach M, Miskovich TA, Fitzgerald JM, Bennett KP, Krukowski JL, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL.) Neuroimage. 2021 08 01;236:118076 PMID: 33878374 PMCID: PMC8284190 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85104960391 04/21/2021
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Acute White Matter Integrity Post-trauma and Prospective Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms.
(Weis CN, Huggins AA, Miskovich TA, Fitzgerald JM, Bennett KP, Krukowski JL, Webb EK, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL.) Front Hum Neurosci. 2021;15:742198 PMID: 34658821 PMCID: PMC8511512 10/19/2021
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(Webb EK, Weis CN, Huggins AA, Parisi EA, Bennett KP, Miskovich T, Krukowski J, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL.) Health Place. 2021 01;67:102493 PMID: 33321457 PMCID: PMC7854519 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097747335 12/16/2020
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High-Resolution Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Extended Amygdala.
(Weis CN, Huggins AA, Bennett KP, Parisi EA, Larson CL.) Brain Connect. 2019 10;9(8):627-637 PMID: 31389253 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85073585192 08/08/2019