Susan Millstein, PhD
is Professor in Residence
in the Department of Pediatrics at UCSF and Associate Director, Research
and Academic Affairs in the Division of Adolescent Medicine. She is also
an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies
at UCSF and the Stanford University Center on Adolescence. Dr. Millsteins
research has focused on health-related decision making, risk perception
and judgment, and health promotion and prevention. She has been the recipient
of numerous research grants and awards and has published widely on adolescent
health issues ranging from adolescents health behaviors to the delivery
of adolescent health services. Dr. Millstein serves as a frequent policy
advisor to foundations and federal agencies and is active in a variety
of national activities related to adolescent health promotion and prevention.
Recent projects have included NIH-funded studies on:
- the development of risk judgment in older children, adolescents and
early adults, and
- treatment-related decision making in infertile couples, and
- the effects of emotional states on risk judgment and decision making.
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