Child Life and Attention Skills, UC San Francisco Site
- Co-Principal Investigator: Linda Pfiffner, Ph.D.
- Co-Principal Investigator: Keith Burnett, Ph.D.
- Project Director: Christine Zalecki, Ph.D. 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.
- UCSF Clinician/Parent Group Leader: Nina M. Kaiser, Ph.D. Nina Kaiser obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University in 2007. She has worked with parents of children with attention, learning, and behavior problems both individually and in groups for approximately the past seven years; since 2006, she has been part of the staff at the UCSF Hyperactivity and Learning Problems Clinic, where she does child assessments and co-leads parenting groups. Her research interests include child and family factors that may moderate response to treatment, such as child and parent cognitions, as well as ways to best translate empirically supported, clinic-based interventions to school and other community settings.
- UCSF Child Assessor: Rita Smith, Ph.D.
- Project Coordinator: Sarah Garcia, B.A.