Lauren Haack, PhD

Dr. Haack, director of the STRIVE lab and associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS), received her PhD at Marquette University and completed a predoctoral internship at UCSF specializing in evidence-based psychosocial services for youth with ADHD. Dr. Haack subsequently received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows with a project entitled “Culturally Sensitive School-Home Behavioral Program for Latino Children with ADHD” funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This mixed-method investigation of the Collaborative Life Skills (CLS) program inspired her subsequent National Institute of Health Fogarty International Center (NIH-FIC) Global Health fellowship pilot-testing an adapted version of CLS (CLS-FUERTE) in Mexico. This project represented the first known effort to implement and evaluate a behavioral school-based program to improve youth attention and behavior in Latin America. Dr. Haack has received numerous awards, including the Hellman Family Award for Early-Career Faculty, the Distinguished Early Career Alumni Award from the Clemson University Psychology Department, the R.E. Harris Award for Excellence in Clinical and Research Activities from the UCSF Clinical Psychology Training Program, the Reverend John P. Raynor S.J. Fellowship and Leslie G. and Cecile C. Matthews Scholarship from Marquette University. Her work adapting, implementing, and evaluating school-home ADHD behavioral services for Latinx youth of Spanish-speaking families was recognized with an International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychology Scholarship and a World ADHD Congress Young Scientist Award in 2017.