Victoria Cosgrove

Victoria Cosgrove


Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development)

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Biography


Dr. Victoria Cosgrove is an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She directs the StREaM (Stress, Resilience, Emotion, and Mood) Laboratory, focused on studying stress and its involvement in the emergence of mood symptoms in adolescents and teens as well as developing clinical interventions that may help minimize negative responses to stress. She also directs the Family Clinic, which trains graduate students in psychology as well as psychiatry fellows in the specifics of family therapy. Over the last several years, Dr. Cosgrove’s research interests have matured, and she has begun applying her prior work involving immune stress responsivity and mood to incorporate youth undergoing treatment for cancer. This transition was spurred by personal experiences with her young daughter’s treatment for cancer from 2015-2017 as well as her clinical observations of other families with youth undergoing cancer treatment. It is rare to have an opportunity to simultaneously wear the hats of mother and scientist. Indeed, the disease- and treatment-related stress endured by young cancer patients and their families is consequential, and its long-term psychological and biological impact is ambiguous. In 2016, Dr. Cosgrove was awarded a key intramural pilot grant (Small Scholarly Project Grant from the Department of Psychiatry) to collect pilot data on child and family stress in pediatric oncology. She was later awarded an intramural McCormick Faculty Award by the Stanford Office of Faculty Development and Diversity to extend these projects to reach more families and providers.

Dr. Cosgrove grew up on the East Coast and received her BA at Yale University in 1998. When she was a sophomore at Yale, she became a peer counselor and quickly made an easy decision to devote her career to supporting mental health. After receiving a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Genetics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2009, she completed a Research Fellowship in child psychiatry at Stanford before joining the Faculty. She lives in Redwood City with her husband Brian and their four children, Zander, Aila, Declan, and Aoife.

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Education & Certifications
  • Fellowship: Stanford University Child Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011) CA
  • Internship: VA Advanced Fellowship Psychology (2009) CA
  • PhD Training: University of Colorado at Boulder Office of the Registrar (2009) CO
  • Master of Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, Clinical Psychology (2005)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Yale University (1998)

Honors & Awards
  • Awardee, NIMH Career Development Institute for Bipolar Disorder (5/2010)
  • McCormick Faculty Award, Stanford University Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (9/2018)
  • New Investigator Award, NIMH-NCDEU (6/2010)

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Practice Locations


LPCH- Psychiatry Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, CA

401 Quarry Rd

Palo Alto , CA 94304

(650) 723-5511

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