Leveraging clinical experience as a neonatal intensive care nurse in one of Canada’s leading mother-child hospital centers in Montreal, she collaborates with interdisciplinary experts across the field of Early Relational Health to conduct research with meaningful and actionable implications for translation.
Dr. Lavallée completed clinical training and earned her PhD in clinical experimental research in 2021 at Université de Montréal, Canada. Subsequently joining the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University, she pursued postdoctoral training at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, biology and computational science.
This comprehensive training has been supported by several competitive awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and is currently supported by a K99 Pathway to Independence Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Andréane Lavallée
PhD
Andréane Lavallée, PhD,, is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Early Relational Health at Columbia University, and Principal Investigator of the Interpersonal Synchrony and Connection (InSynC) Lab. She holds a K99 Pathway to Independence Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Her research mechanistically investigates how dyadic parent-child relational health yields long-term health and well-being through optimized socioemotional functioning.
Associate Research Scientist
Center for Early Relational Health
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Principal Investigator
Interpersonal Synchrony and Connection (InSynC) Lab
Featured Publications & Press
Publications
Development of a revised and abbreviated version of the postpartum bonding questionnaire (PBQ-R): First U.S. validation and association to child outcomes
Lavallée A, Warmingham JM, Reimers MA, Curtin P. Kyle MH, Austin J, Lee S, Barker T, Hussain M, Arduin E, Ahmed I, Atwood G, Ettinger S, Smotrich G, Turner JB, Fisher PW, Marsh R, Dumitriu D. Infant Ment Health J. 2025.
PUBLICATIONS
Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda
*Dumitriu D, *Lavallée A, Riggs JL, Frosch CA, Barker TV, Best DL, Blasingame B, Bushar J, Charlot-Swilley D, Erickson E, Finkel MA, Fortune B, Gillen L, Martinez M, Ramachandran U, Sanders LM, Willis DW, Shearman N. Front Pediatr. 2023;11:1259022. *Shared first authorship.
PUBLICATIONS
Early dyadic parent/caregiver-infant interventions to support early relational health: a meta-analysis
Lavallée A, Pang L, Warmingham J, Atwood G, Ahmed I, Lanoff M, Finkel MA, Xu R, Arduin E, Hamer K, Fischman R, Ettinger S, Hu Y, Fisher K, Greeman E, Kuromaru M, Durr S, Flowers E, Gozali A, Willis D, Dumitriu D. Preprint at medRxiv. 2022.