The Research Team:

 

Elizabeth Owens, Ph.D.         Research Psychologist

Elizabeth Owens is a clinical psychologist and obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998.  Her primary role in Dr. Hinshaw's lab involves statistical consultation and data analysis.  In addition to her interests in statistical methods, her substantive research interests include resilience among children at-risk, the development of externalizing problems in children, and maternal depression and its effects on children.

University of California Berkeley

The Hinshaw Lab

Girls Follow-Up Project

We thank our participating families for their continued support in completing this project. The third wave of the study has begun and we look forward to seeing you all in the upcoming years.

The Girls' Follow-Up Projects: An NIMH grant awarded to Professor Hinshaw ("Prospective Follow-Up of Girls with ADHD") allowed for systematic and thorough follow-up efforts over the last several years.  Our project is currently starting up the third wave of assessments of the 228 families who participated in the 1997, 1998, and 1999 summer programs.  The follow-up study should serve as a rich source of diagnostic, developmental, and familial information as the girls with and without ADHD grow and develop through adolescence and young adulthood.

Christine Zalecki, Ph.D.        Project Coordinator

Dr. Zalecki received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. In addition to being the Project Coordinator for the Girls Follow-up Project, she is a clinician in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department at UCSF. Dr. Zalecki served as a paraprofessional on the MTA study in 1995 and 1996, and was a graduate student researcher at Professor Hinshaw's summer programs for girls with ADHD in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Her research interests include basic emotion processes in children and adolescents with ADHD, physical and relational aggression in children with ADHD, family factors related to ADHD, and comorbidities related to ADHD subtype differences.

Suzanne L. Perrigue, B.S.     Senior Research Assistant

Suzanne graduated from the University of Washington in December, 2005 with a B.S. in Psychology.

Adriana Nevado, B.A.            Senior Research Assistant

Adriana graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2006 with a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology.