Elizabeth Ozer, PhD
is Associate Professor
of Pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University
of California, San Francisco. She is also the Assistant Director of the
National Adolescent Health Policy Center within the Division of Adolescent
Medicine. Dr. Ozer is a psychologist whose research experience has focused
primarily on the health of adolescents and families and the development
of self-efficacy. She has served as either Principal Investigator or Co-Principal
Investigator of several intervention studies on implementing and evaluating
adolescent clinical preventive services, including the development of
primary care provider trainings to increase the screening and counseling
of adolescents for risky behavior, and examining the effects of delivering
preventive services on adolescent risk behavior. Her other primary area
of research is on helping families foster the healthy development of adolescents,
with a focus on combining work and family. Dr. Ozer is Chair of the Preventive
Services Special Interest Group for the Society for Adolescent Medicine;
and was a member of The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality’s
Steering Committee on Translating Health Services Research into Practice.
She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at Stanford University, completed a Clinical
Psychology Internship in the Dept. of Child Psychiatry at Stanford, and
an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship in Health Psychology with a traineeship
in Adolescent Medicine at the University of California, S.F. She has published
in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
Psychology of Women Quarterly, Women’s Health: Research on Gender,
Behavior, and Policy, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,
Pediatrics, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Health Services Research.
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