Lavner Receives 2025 Creative Research Medal
Justin Lavner, Ph.D., CFR’s co-director and professor of psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded a 2025 Creative Research Medal by the University of Georgia Research Foundation. This annual award recognizes a distinct, exceptional research project with extraordinary impact and significance to the field performed by a mid-career faculty member.
Lavner was given the award for his work on CFR’s Sleep SAAF study, a randomized controlled trial examining effective ways to increase healthy, safe sleep patterns among African American infants and mothers. The study was conducted in close collaboration with Brian Stansfield, professor of pediatrics at Augusta University, and the late Leann Birch, William P “Bill” Flatt professor in the department of foods and nutrition at UGA. Read more about the study.
Congratulations Dr. Lavner!
Justin Lavner, Ph.D., CFR’s co-director and professor of psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded a 2025 Creative Research Medal by the University of Georgia Research Foundation. This annual award recognizes a distinct, exceptional research project with extraordinary impact and significance to the field performed by a mid-career faculty member.
Lavner was given the award for his work on CFR’s Sleep SAAF study, a randomized controlled trial examining effective ways to increase healthy, safe sleep patterns among African American infants and mothers. The study was conducted in close collaboration with Brian Stansfield, professor of pediatrics at Augusta University, and the late Leann Birch, William P “Bill” Flatt professor in the department of foods and nutrition at UGA. Read more about the study.
Congratulations Dr. Lavner!