Dr. Jacqueline Holloway is Project Director at the McSilver Institute, where she manages two multi-year, federally funded randomized controlled trials designed to improve access to treatment and systems of care for individuals with trauma-related disorders, using evidence-based interventions.

Dr. Holloway has been working in the field of stress and trauma research for almost two decades, and has led federal, state, and privately funded research projects addressing domestic violence, child sexual abuse prevention, complex trauma, and evidence-based parent support programs in underserved populations.  She has expertise in program evaluation, fundraising and grants management, and serves on a national taskforce to create guidelines for supervised visitation in the child welfare field. Dr. Holloway began her research career as part of the Stress and Motivated Behavior Institute at the East Orange VA Medical Center, before transitioning to work focused on family violence and child abuse prevention.

Dr. Holloway holds a Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology from Seton Hall University and a PhD in Integrative Neuroscience from UMDNJ with a focus on the biobehavioral characteristics of trauma, learning acquisition, and anxiety disorder etiology.

Read about the Safe Mothers, Safe Children project here, and WeCare here.