Elizabeth Ozer, PhD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine
Elizabeth Ozer is Professor of Pediatrics & Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Equity, Office of Diversity and Outreach, at the University of California, SF (UCSF). She also serves as Director of Fellows Research Training in Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine. Dr. Ozer is a psychologist whose research has focused primarily on the health of adolescents, young adults, and women.
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She has served as either Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of multiple U.S. federally funded grants focused on decreasing adolescent risky behavior through improving the care provided by the health care system and the primary care provider. This research has tested models for increasing the screening and counseling of adolescents in primary care as well as evaluated the effect of provider screening and counseling on adolescent behavior across multiple health risk areas. Recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and National Science Foundation funded research has explored ways that technology can be incorporated into successful models of prevention for teenagers, with a current transdisciplinary collaboration with computer scientists to design, implement, and investigate a self-adaptive personalized behavior change system for adolescent preventive health (with a focus on reducing adolescent alcohol use).
In addition to intervention research, Dr. Ozer and colleagues have examined ethnic/racial disparities in the delivery of preventive services, rates of screening for depression in primary care, and trends in depression, nutrition, and physical activity screening. Extending beyond the adolescent age-group, recent work has emphasized young adult preventive health care. Dr. Ozer is currently PI of a Maternal & Child Health (MCHB) funded Adolescent/Young Adult Health Network with a focus on developing a national transdisciplinary research agenda for adolescent and young adult health and to translate research into practice.
Dr. Ozer is Chair of the University of California System-Wide Committee on the Status of Women; and a member of the UCSF Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and the Campus Council on Faculty Life. In 2007, she served as a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- PhD Counseling and Health Psychology Stanford University 1992
- MA Psychology Stanford University 1988
- BA Psychology University of Michigan 1982
Websites
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- HEALTH QUEST Engaging Adolescents in Health Careers Using Innovative Technology (sites.google.com)
- INSPIRE Interactive Technology for Behavior Change (sites.google.com)
Grants and Projects
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- MCH Adolescent and Young Adult Health Research Network (AYAH-RN), MCHB, 2022-2027
- Leadership Education in Adolescent Health, MCHB, 2013-2027
- ADVANCE Partnership: Ensuring Fair Access to Career-enhancing Opportunities on Medical School Faculties, National Science Foundation, 2023-2026
- Implementation of Health-E You/Salud iTu to Promote Adolescent-Centered Contraceptive Care, PCORI, 2021-2024
- SCH: ChangeGradients: Promoting Adolescent Health Behavior Change with Clinically Integrated Sample-Efficient Policy Gradient Methods, NIH, 2019-2023
- Leadership Equity Advances Diversity (LEAD): Increasing Women and Underrepresented Minority Faculty in Leadership Positions, UC Office of the President, 2020-2023
- State Adolescent and Young Adult Health Capacity Building Program, HRSA, 2018-2023
- Health Quest: Engaging Adolescents in Health Careers with Technology-Rich Personalized Learning, NIH - Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), 2017-2023
- Reducing Health Disparities in Unintended Pregnancies Among Hispanic Adolescents Using a Patient-Centered Computer-Based Clinic Intervention, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, 2015-2018
- SCH INT: Collaborative Research: A Self-Adaptive Personalized Behavior Change System for Adolescent Preventive Healthcare, National Science Foundation, 2013-2017
- Biomedical Research Career Identification in Graduate Education (BRIDGE), NIH, 2013-2017
- Adolescents Learning Coping Skills and Problem Solving Using an Interactive Graphic Novella, National Science Foundation, 2012-2014
- Improving Adolescent Primary Care Through An Interactive Behavioral Health Module, NIH, 2011-2014
- Improving Adolescent Primary Care through the Integration of an Interactive Behavioral Module, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, 2011-2013
- Re-orienting general practice systems toward youth friendly care: a cluster randomized controlled trial" - based at University of Melbourne, NHMRC, 2009-2013
- Influences on the Translation of an Evidence-based HIV/STI Intervention into Practice, National Institutes of Mental Health, 2009-2012
- Primary Care Prevention Access and Risk-Taking Projec, University of Melbourne, 2006-2010
- Adolescent Preventive Services: Disparities and Outcomes, National Institute of Nursing Research, 2005-2007
- Evaluation of Adolescent Clinical Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through a cooperative agreement with the American Association of Medical Colleges, 2003-2004
- Evaluation of Adolescent Clinical Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a cooperative agreement with the American Association of Medical Colleges, 2001-2003
- Implementing Adolescent Preventive Guidelines, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2000-2003
- Combining Work and Family: Parental Employment and Adolescent Risk Behavior, Hellman Family Award for Early Career Faculty, University of California, San Francisco, 2002
- 5 year grant to implement and evaluate a clinical preventive service intervention for adolescents in managed health care settings in California, The California Wellness Foundation, 1995-2000
- Childcare Responsibility, Mental Health &Employment, NIH, 1990-1900
Publications (50)
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Health BehaviorMass ScreeningCounselingPsychological TheorySocieties, ScientificPrimary Health CareComputer-Assisted InstructionTechnologyRisk-TakingPreventive Health ServicesAdolescent BehaviorVideo GamesAdolescent MedicineDiagnostic Techniques and ProceduresAdolescent Health Services
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Narrative Play-Promoting Adolescent Health With Interactive Games.
JAMA 2024 Sinha A, Rowe J, Ozer E -
Supporting Adolescent Engagement with Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Health Behavior Change Interventions.
Journal of medical Internet research 2023 Giovanelli A, Rowe J, Taylor M, Berna M, Tebb KP, Penilla C, Pugatch M, Lester J, Ozer EM -
Albert Bandura (1925-2021).
The American psychologist 2022 Ozer EM -
Adolescent Technology-use Rules and Sleep in a Large Representative Sample.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2022 Giovanelli A, Ozer EJ, Adams SH, Park MJ, Ozer EM -
"What's Important to You, Max?": The Influence of Goals on Engagement in an Interactive Narrative for Adolescent Health Behavior Change.
Interactive storytelling : 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7-10, 2021, Proceedings. Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (14th : 202... 2021 Mott M, Mott B, Rowe J, Ozer E, Giovanelli A, Berna M, Pugatch M, Tebb K, Penilla C, Lester J
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Delivering Anticipatory Guidance About Technology Use to Adolescents in Primary Care: Rates in a Representative California Sample.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2021 Giovanelli A, Adams SH, Jane Park M, Ozer EM -
Evaluating the sustainability of a cancer screening intervention through a PRISM: The PreView experience.
Preventive medicine reports 2021 Walsh J, Potter M, Ozer E, Gildengorin G, Dass N, Green L -
Using Standardized Patients to Augment Communication Skills and Self-Efficacy in Caring for Transgender Youth.
Academic pediatrics 2021 Vance SR, Dentoni-Lasofsky B, Ozer E, Deutsch MB, Meyers MJ, Buckelew SM -
Adolescent Risk Behavior Screening and Interventions in Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review.
Pediatrics 2021 Pfaff N, DaSilva A, Ozer E, Vemula Kaiser S -
Improving contraceptive use among Latina adolescents: A cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating an mHealth application, Health-E You/Salud iTu.
Contraception 2021 Tebb KP, Rodriguez F, Pollack LM, Adams S, Rico R, Renteria R, Trieu SL, Hwang L, Brindis CD, Ozer E, Puffer M -
Electronic Health Risk Behavior Screening With Integrated Feedback Among Adolescents in Primary Care: Randomized Controlled Trial.
Journal of medical Internet research 2021 Richardson L, Parker EO, Zhou C, Kientz J, Ozer E, McCarty C -
Digital Health Technology to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Preventive Services: Affordances and Challenges.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2020 Wong CA, Madanay F, Ozer EM, Harris SK, Moore M, Master SO, Moreno M, Weitzman ER -
Fostering Engagement in Health Behavior Change: Iterative Development of an Interactive Narrative Environment to Enhance Adolescent Preventive Health Services.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2020 Ozer EM, Rowe J, Tebb KP, Berna M, Penilla C, Giovanelli A, Jasik C, Lester JC -
Innovative Digital Technologies to Improve Adolescent and Young Adult Health.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2020 Ozer EM, Lester JC -
Leveraging Technology to Improve Health in Adolescence: A Developmental Science Perspective.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2020 Giovanelli A, Ozer EM, Dahl RE -
A Pediatric Transgender Medicine Curriculum for Multidisciplinary Trainees.
MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2020 Vance SR, Buckelew SM, Dentoni-Lasofsky B, Ozer E, Deutsch MB, Meyers M -
PreView: a Randomized Trial of a Multi-site Intervention in Diverse Primary Care to Increase Rates of Age-Appropriate Cancer Screening.
Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Walsh J, Potter M, Salazar R, Ozer E, Gildengorin G, Dass N, Green L -
Experiences With Querying Gender Identity Across Seven Adolescent Medicine Sites.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2018 Guss CE, Inwards-Breland DJ, Ozer E, Vance SR -
Teaching paediatric transgender care.
The clinical teacher 2018 Vance SR, Lasofsky B, Ozer E, Buckelew SM -
Assessing the effectiveness of a patient-centred computer-based clinic intervention, Health-E You/Salud iTu, to reduce health disparities in unintended pregnancies among Hispanic adolescents: study protocol for a cluster randomised control trial.
BMJ open 2018 Tebb KP, Rodriguez F, Pollack LM, Trieu SL, Hwang L, Puffer M, Adams S, Ozer EM, Brindis CD -
Research on Clinical Preventive Services for Adolescents and Young Adults: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go?
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2016 Harris SK, Aalsma MC, Weitzman ER, Garcia-Huidobro D, Wong C, Hadland SE, Santelli J, Park MJ, Ozer EM -
Teen Preferences for Clinic-Based Behavior Screens: Who, Where, When, and How?
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2016 Jasik CB, Berna M, Martin M, Ozer EM -
Does screening for and intervening with multiple health compromising behaviours and mental health disorders amongst young people attending primary care improve health outcomes? A systematic review.
BMC family practice 2016 Webb MJ, Kauer SD, Ozer EM, Haller DM, Sanci LA -
Dream Teens: Adolescents-Led Participatory Project in Portugal in the Context of the Economic Recession.
Health promotion practice 2016 Frasquilho D, Ozer EJ, Ozer EM, Branquinho C, Camacho I, Reis M, Tomé G, Santos T, Gomes P, Cruz J, Ramiro L, Gaspar T, Simões C, Piatt AA, Holsen I, Gaspar de Matos M -
Use of theory in computer-based interventions to reduce alcohol use among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review.
BMC public health 2016 Tebb KP, Erenrich RK, Jasik CB, Berna MS, Lester JC, Ozer EM -
Responding to Young People's Health Risks in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomised Trial of Training Clinicians in Screening and Motivational Interviewing.
PloS one 2015 Sanci L, Chondros P, Sawyer S, Pirkis J, Ozer E, Hegarty K, Yang F, Grabsch B, Shiell A, Cahill H, Ambresin AE, Patterson E, Patton G -
Implementing a brief evidence-based HIV intervention: a mixed methods examination of compliance fidelity.
Translational behavioral medicine 2014 Dolcini MM, Catania JA, Gandelman A, Ozer EM -
Functions of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents and young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms.
Psychiatry research 2014 Sadeh N, Londahl-Shaller EA, Piatigorsky A, Fordwood S, Stuart BK, McNiel DE, Klonsky ED, Ozer EM, Yaeger AM -
Seizing the opportunity: improving young adult preventive health care.
Adolescent medicine: state of the art reviews 2013 Ozer EM, Scott JT, Brindis CD -
Receipt of preventive health services in young adults.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2012 Lau JS, Adams SH, Irwin CE, Ozer EM -
The prevention access and risk taking in young people (PARTY) project protocol: a cluster randomised controlled trial of health risk screening and motivational interviewing for young people presenting to general practice.
BMC public health 2012 Sanci L, Grabsch B, Chondros P, Shiell A, Pirkis J, Sawyer S, Hegarty K, Patterson E, Cahill H, Ozer E, Seymour J, Patton G -
Adolescence and the social determinants of health.
Lancet (London, England) 2012 Viner RM, Ozer EM, Denny S, Marmot M, Resnick M, Fatusi A, Currie C -
Young adult preventive health care guidelines: there but can't be found.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2012 Ozer EM, Urquhart JT, Brindis CD, Park MJ, Irwin CE -
The association of BMI status with adolescent preventive screening.
Pediatrics 2011 Jasik CB, Adams SH, Irwin CE, Ozer E -
Does delivering preventive services in primary care reduce adolescent risky behavior?
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2011 Ozer EM, Adams SH, Orrell-Valente JK, Wibbelsman CJ, Lustig JL, Millstein SG, Garber AK, Irwin CE -
Are adolescents being screened for emotional distress in primary care?
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2009 Ozer EM, Zahnd EG, Adams SH, Husting SR, Wibbelsman CJ, Norman KP, Smiga SM -
Adolescent preventive services: rates and disparities in preventive health topics covered during routine medical care in a California sample.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2008 Adams SH, Husting S, Zahnd E, Ozer EM -
Increasing clinician self-efficacy for screening and counseling adolescents for risky health behaviors: results of an intervention.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2008 Buckelew SM, Adams SH, Irwin CE, Gee S, Ozer EM -
The adolescent primary care visit: time to build on strengths.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2007 Ozer EM -
Increasing the screening and counseling of adolescents for risky health behaviors: a primary care intervention.
Pediatrics 2005 Ozer EM, Adams SH, Lustig JL, Gee S, Garber AK, Gardner LR, Rehbein M, Addison L, Irwin CE -
Provider self-efficacy and the screening of adolescents for risky health behaviors.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2004 Ozer EM, Adams SH, Gardner LR, Mailloux DE, Wibbelsman CJ, Irwin CE -
Adolescents' access to health services and clinical preventive health care: crossing the great divide.
Pediatric annals 2002 Brindis C, Park MJ, Ozer EM, Irwin CE -
Can it be done? Implementing adolescent clinical preventive services.
Health services research 2001 Ozer EM, Adams SH, Lustig JL, Millstein SG, Camfield K, El-Diwany S, Volpe S, Irwin CE -
Improving the delivery of adolescent clinical preventive services through skills-based training.
Pediatrics 2001 Lustig JL, Ozer EM, Adams SH, Wibbelsman CJ, Fuster CD, Bonar RW, Irwin CE -
Preventive services in a health maintenance organization: how well do pediatricians screen and educate adolescent patients?
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2000 Halpern-Felsher BL, Ozer EM, Millstein SG, Wibbelsman CJ, Fuster CD, Elster AB, Irwin CE -
Does child care involvement increase or decrease distress among dual-earner couples?
Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) 1998 Ozer EM, Barnett RC, Brennan RT, Sperling J -
The impact of work-family systems on women's psychological health: an introduction.
Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) 1998 Ozer EM -
The impact of childcare responsibility and self-efficacy on the psychological health of working mothers
Psychology of Women Quarterly 1995 Ozer, E. M. -
Women's health: In search of a paradigm
Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior and Policy 1995 Chesney, M. Ozer, E. M. -
Mechanisms governing empowerment effects: a self-efficacy analysis.
Journal of personality and social psychology 1990 Ozer EM, Bandura A