Teresa Realpe-Bonilla

Office Address: Teresa Realpe-Bonilla, MPH CMBN, Rutgers University 197 University Ave. Newark, New Jersey 07102 Phone: (973) 353-1080, ext. 3210 Fax: (973) 353-1760 E-Mail: trealpe@andromeda.rutgers.edu Teresa Realpe-Bonilla, MPH, is a project coordinator at the Infancy Studies Laboratory, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology in May 1995 and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology in May 2000. She obtained her Masters Degree in Public Health with a specialty in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the School of Public Health of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ. Her thesis, “Secondary Data Analysis of the Effect of Maternal Iodine Supplementation of Infant Development in a Mildly Iodine Deficient Population”, evaluated the effect of mild iodine deficiency on cognitive function and motor development in 3, 6, 9 and 12 month old infants as well as the relationship between thyroid stimulating hormone, socioenvironmental factors, infant cognition and infant motor acquisition. Prior to joining the Infancy Studies Laboratory, she worked as a research assistant with Dr. Paula Tallal, investigating familial aggregation in Specific Language Impairment. This work included the study of the heritability of language, reading, and auditory rate processing impairments. More specifically, she participated in the recruitment, assessment and evaluation of children with language, reading and processing difficulties in families with a history of language impairments using behavioral and genetic measures (pedigree analysis). She joined the Infancy Studies Laboratory in 2003 and is currently actively involved in using behavioral measures, the eye gaze tracking system and electrophysiological measures to study infant information processing and to evaluate their early cognitive and language development.

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