About Lauren

Lauren is a fifth year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, working with Dr. Andrea Chronis-Tuscano in the Maryland ADHD Program. She graduated with honors from the University of Richmond in 2015. After graduation, she worked for two years at Virginia Commonwealth University as a Research Coordinator, where she coordinated school-based intervention studies for adolescents with ADHD. Lauren’s research and clinical work focuses on developmental trajectories, adjustment, and treatment of individuals with ADHD across the lifespan, particularly in high-risk transition periods (e.g., adolescence and emerging adulthood). Specific emphases include risk and protective factors affecting the developmental course of ADHD, the development of comorbidity (e.g., depression and hazardous substance use), developmentally appropriate assessment of adolescents and emerging adults, and empirically informed treatment of college students. Lauren’s dissertation research, which evaluates behavioral economic models of hazardous alcohol use among college students with ADHD, is funded by an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA and NIAAA.

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