CENTER FOR
FAMILY STUDIES

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Sieron Bldg, 3rd Flr
Miami, FL-33136
V - (305) 243-4592
F - (305) 243-5577
Email - Maria Padron

Faculty

Andrew L. Brickman, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Health Services Research, HIV Prevention, Human Subjects Protection.  

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Ervin Briones, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Acculturation; family and couples relations; adolescent development.

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Scott C. Brown, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Aging; Social and physical environmental influences on social, psychological and health outcomes.

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Myron Burns, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Minority health; stress-process of health outcomes including individual, family, and ecological factors.

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Frank Dillon, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Culturally competent therapy; evaluation of family-based interventions among traditionally underserved adolescent and adult populations; psychological assessment.

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Daniel Feaster, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor and Director of the Methodology Division, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials and Effectiveness Research, Multilevel modeling, Structural Equations Modeling, Family-based health-related interventions, Drug Abuse, HIV/AIDS, and minority health disparities.

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Xiaohui Guo, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

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Yan Liu, Ph.D.

Biostatistician, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Methodology for clinical trials of drug and non-drug psychotherapy interventions. Statistical tests for small-sample-size clinical trials, Bayesian methods, and multilevel models.  

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Yolanda Mancilla, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies and Executive Director, National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse.
Research Interests: Hispanics and drug abuse; Mentoring and training of students and early career scientists.
 

Maite Mena, Psy.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests:  Treatment development for adolescent substance abuse and co-morbid disorders, risky sexual behaviors among adolescent substance abusers. 

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Victoria B. Mitrani, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Director of Family Health, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Development and examination of family-based interventions for families facing major destabilizing events such as illness, caregiving, immigration and reintegration; health disparities; assessment of family functioning using the Structural Family Systems Ratings.

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Joan Muir, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Family-based interventions for conduct disorder, parent-child attachment.

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Hilda Pantin, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Prevention intervention research with minority families.

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Tatiana Perrino, Psy.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health

Research Interests: Health promotion and disease prevention among minority populations; Contextual and environmental influences (e.g., family, neighborhood, culture) on social, psychological and health outcomes. 

 

 

Michael S. Robbins, Ph.D. 
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Development and evaluation of family-based interventions for adolescent substance abuse, process-outcome links in family therapy, development/ refinement of theoretically relevant measures for assessing treatment of adolescent drug abuse and conduct disorder.

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Daniel A. Santisteban, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Development of integrative treatments for adolescents with co-occurring disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder, family therapy process and outcome, the role of cultural factors in treatment, and the utilization of empirically supported dissemination/training practices.

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Seth Schwartz, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Personal and cultural identity; self and context as predictors of positive and negative adolescent development; ethnic minority issues; cross-ethnic consistency of self and family issues; interface of prevention science and positive youth development; and psychosocial correlates of and methods of addressing health disparities. 

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Willielyra Smith, M.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies
Research Interests: Interventions targeting the psychosocial needs of HIV+ African American women and their families, integration of family therapy with psychopharmacology in treating families with psychosocial and psychiatric needs.

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Lourdes Suarez-Morales, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Treatment development/outcome for minority children, adolescents, and families with co morbid disorders; Children’s coping; Cultural Issues; Acculturation.

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José Szapocznik, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Family Studies 

Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Architecture, and Educational & Psychological Studies 

Chair, National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse 

Research Interests: Brief Strategic Family Therapy, Eco-developmental Theory, family and ecological strategic/structural interventions, family and culture, built environment, drug use and HIV/AIDS.

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Elias Vasquez, Ph.D., RN, FAAN

Associate Professor (School of Nursing) and Minority Fellow, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Studies

Research Interests: Children exposed to substances and HIV, Adolescent high-risk behavior, Mothers with a substance use disorder, Children 0-5 living with a mother with a substance use disorder.  

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