Contact
Triad Technology Center333 Cassell Drive
Suite 4400
Baltimore, MD 21224
Email: hailey.walters@nih.gov
Education
B.A. in Psychology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Background
Hailey received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, Kentucky. She worked under the instruction of Michael Bardo, PhD, in a Behavioral Neuroscience & Psychopharmacology laboratory. She worked on many projects: examining the effects of naltrexone on food-maintained responding; testing potential pharmacotherapeutic interventions for methamphetamine abuse; searching for individual differences in risk taking during adolescence that may predict patterns of later drug use; and learned various immunohistochemistry techniques. She joined Michael Baumann, PhD, in the Designer Drug Research Unit (DDRU) in August 2015 as an IRTA post-baccalaureate. Hailey currently performs in vivo microdialysis experiments to determine pharmacological effects of newly-emerging designer drugs, such as “bath salts” (methylone, ethylone), “benzofurans” (5- and 6-APB), and “flakka” (α-PVP). After leaving the DDRU, Hailey will seek a PhD in Neurosciences.