• Awards

    2024 - ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar

    • ScholarGPS celebrates Highly Ranked Scholars™ for their exceptional contributions in various disciplines. Dr. Church’s prolific publication record, the high impact of her work and the outstanding quality of her scholarly contributions have placed her in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide in the field of mental stress according to ScholarGPS’s analytic tools. View her scholar profile and ranking
  • 2023 - UCLA Faculty Award for Research Diversity 2022-23 
  • 2019 - International Foundation for Functional Gastroenterological Disorders: Research Award 
  • 2019 - Abstract of Distinction “Machine Learning Approaches Applied to the Prediction of Obesity Based on Brain Signatures and Diet”, Obesity Week, Las Vegas, NV 
  • 2018 - Abstract of Distinction “Early Life Adversity Is Associated With Increased Susceptibility to Brain-Gut Alterations in Obesity”, Obesity Week, Nashville, TN