Patricia Kabitzke, Ph.D.

Patricia Kabitzke serves as the senior advisor and chief of staff to the director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, ensuring that efforts are strategically aligned with the needs and priorities of the Stanley Center and its mission.

Prior to joining the Broad in 2019, Kabitzke served as the associate director of scientific programs at Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB), a national nonprofit focused on diagnostic tests and personalized therapeutics for veterans and civilians with trauma-related and other brain disorders. She led all non-clinical programming, developing robust, reproducible, and translational model systems of post-traumatic stress disorder constructs. Prior to that, Kabitzke spent time at PsychoGenics, Inc., a contract research organization, leading projects developing novel phenotyping assays and screening therapeutics in multiple model systems of autism, in partnership with the Simons Foundation and other funders. Kabitzke trained at Columbia University and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience.