Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND, and Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Elizabeth D'Amico is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a licensed clinical psychologist, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. D'Amico is nationally recognized for her work developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for adolescents and young adults. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).
D'Amico has evaluated MI interventions with young people in a variety of settings, including schools, homeless shelters, and teen court. She currently has grants focused on substance use prevention among adolescents in primary care and with urban American Indian and Alaska Native emerging adults across the United States. She is also currently conducting a large clinical trial to address suicide prevention among Alaska Native young people in Alaska. She has conducted epidemiological work to examine predictors and consequences of adolescent and emerging adult substance use and is the principal investigator of a longitudinal study examining substance use patterns over 18 years among youth from sixth grade through age 28. She has also addressed the effects of cannabis advertising on adolescents' cannabis use.
In 2016, D'Amico was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association for Division 50 (Society of Addiction Psychology). She received the Mentor of the Year Award in 2018 from the RAND Behavioral and Policy Sciences department. She has discussed how to talk to adolescents about cannabis legalization on PBS News Hour for the "In My Humble Opinion" (#IMHO) series. D'Amico received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas.
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, University of Texas
