Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH
Prof of Clinical Psychiatry
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Her areas of expertise are child and adolescent psychiatry, treatment and research on PTSD across the lifespan, immigrant mental health, and health services, equity and implementation research including digital interventions to improve systems of care for disenfranchised communities.

• Editors' Note: Third Annual Report Regarding JAACAP's Antiracist Journey.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2023 Novins DK, Singh MK, Althoff RR, Bagot KS, Brotman MA, DelBello MP, Dickstein DP, Doyle AE, Drury SS, Findling RL, Fortuna LR, Fristad MA, Middeldorp CM, Njoroge WFM, Rogers CE, Pumariega AJ, Bath E, …
• Upholding the Human Rights and Well-Being of Refugee Children Through Effective Clinical Care.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2023 Fortuna LR, Porche MV
• Systematic Review: Child Psychiatry Access Program Outcomes.
  JAACAP open 2023 Lee CM, Yonek J, Lin B, Bechelli M, Steinbuchel P, Fortuna L, Mangurian C
• Integrating Spirituality and Religious Beliefs in a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for PTSD with Latinx Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
  Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma 2023 Fortuna, L. R., Martinez, W., & Porche, M. V.
• Study protocol for a hybrid 1 effectiveness-implementation trial of Brief Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (Brief STAIR) and web-administered STAIR (webSTAIR) for posttraumatic stress disorder in integrated primary care.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2023 Godfrey LB, Cloitre M, Elwy AR, Fortuna LR, Fuchs C, Valentine SE
• Integrating Spirituality and Religious Beliefs in a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for PTSD with Latinx Unaccompanied Immigrant Children.
  Journal of child & adolescent trauma 2023 Fortuna LR, Martinez W, Porche MV
• Editorial: Inconclusive (or "Elusive"): Concordance Between Substance Use Self-report and Toxicology for Diverse Youth Populations.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2023 Fortuna LR, Bagot KS
• A pragmatic feasibility trial of the Primary Care Intervention for PTSD: A health service delivery model to reduce health disparities for low-income and BIPOC youth.
  Behaviour research and therapy 2023 Ng LC, Miller AN, Bowers G, Cheng Y, Brigham R, Tai MH, Smith AM, Mueser KT, Fortuna LR, Coles M
• Editorial: Institutional Commitment Is Needed to Promote Antiracist Care of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2023 Robles-Ramamurthy B, Fortuna LR
• The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) pediatric and parent-proxy short forms for anxiety: Psychometric properties in the Kids FACE FEARS sample.
  Journal of anxiety disorders 2023 Freitag GF, Salem H, Conroy K, Busto C, Adrian M, Borba CPC, Brandt A, Chu PV, Dantowitz A, Farley AM, Fortuna L, Furr JM, Lejeune J, Miller L, Platt R, Porche M, Read KL, Rivero-Conil S, Hernandez …
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Anxiety Disorders in Youth: Coping with Stress, Worry, and Recovering from a Pandemic.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2023 Fortuna LR, Brown IC, Lewis Woods GG, Porche MV
• Editors' Best of 2022.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2023 Novins DK, Althoff RR, Brotman MA, Cortese S, DelBello M, Doyle A, Drury SS, Fortuna L, Frazier JA, Fristad M, Henderson SW, McCauley E, Middeldorp C, Njoroge WFM, Rogers CE, White T
• "If he doesn't buy in, it's a waste of time": Perspectives from diverse parents and adolescents on engaging children in ADHD treatment.
  Child psychiatry and human development 2022 Zolli N, Loubeau JK, Sikov J, Baul TD, Hasan S, Rosen K, Buonocore O, Rabin M, Duncan A, Fortuna L, Borba CPC, Silverstein M, Spencer AE
• Book Forum: An Introduction to the JAACAP Editorial Team.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2022 Schreiber J, Richards M
• Editorial: Racialized Trauma and Emotion Regulation in a Dysregulated World.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2022 Fortuna LR, Shah LD
• Beyond Children's Mental Health: Cultural Considerations to Foster Latino Child and Family Mental Health.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2022 Robles-Ramamurthy B, Sandoval JF, Tobón AL, Fortuna LR
• Correction to: The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department's Efforts to Heed the Call to Action.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2022 Seritan AL, Hasser C, Burke MG, Bussmann GL, Charlesworth A, Cooper R, Fortuna LR, Herbst ED, Jayaratne A, Richards A, Stuart BK, Epel E
• Religion and Spirituality: Why and How to Address It in Clinical Practice.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2022 Camino-Gaztambide RF, Fortuna LR, Stuber ML
• Clinical Update: Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Care in Community Systems of Care.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2022 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Committee on Community-Based Systems of , American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Committee on Community-Based Systems …
• Juvenile Justice, Technology and Family Separation: A Call to Prioritize Access to Family-Based Telehealth Treatment for Justice-Involved Adolescents' Mental Health and Well-Being.
  Frontiers in digital health 2022 Tolou-Shams M, Bath E, McPhee J, Folk JB, Porche MV, Fortuna LR
• Consideration of racism experiences in the implementation of trauma-focused therapy in primary care.
  Health services research 2022 McCuistian C, Kimball SL, Buitron de la Vega P, Godfrey LB, Fortuna LR, Valentine SE
• Researchers' Perspectives on Digital Mental Health Intervention Co-Design With Marginalized Community Stakeholder Youth and Families.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2022 Porche MV, Folk JB, Tolou-Shams M, Fortuna LR
• Unpacking the Layers: Dismantling Inequities in Substance Use Services and Outcomes for Racially Minoritized Adolescents.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2022 Porche MV, Fortuna LR, Tolou-Shams M
• The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department's Efforts to Heed the Call to Action.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2022 Seritan AL, Hasser C, Burke MG, Bussmann GL, Charlesworth A, Cooper R, Fortuna LR, Herbst ED, Jayaratne A, Richards A, Stuart BK, Epel E
• Cultivating Solutions for Disparities in Mental Health Services and Outcomes Among Minoritized Youth.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2022 Fortuna LR, Al-Mateen CS, Cullins LM, Lohr WD
• Focusing on Racial, Historical and Intergenerational Trauma, and Resilience: A Paradigm to Better Serving Children and Families.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2022 Fortuna LR, Tobón AL, Anglero YL, Postlethwaite A, Porche MV, Rothe EM
• Editorial: Disparities in Access to Child Psychiatric Services: Can We Shift the Landscape?
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2022 Fortuna LR
• Opportunities to Integrate Mobile App-Based Interventions Into Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services in the Wake of COVID-19.
  American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2021 Satre DD, Meacham MC, Asarnow LD, Fisher WS, Fortuna LR, Iturralde E
• Six Stages of Engagement in ADHD Treatment Described by Diverse, Urban Parents.
  Pediatrics 2021 Spencer AE, Sikov J, Loubeau JK, Zolli N, Baul T, Rabin M, Hasan S, Rosen K, Buonocore O, Lejeune J, Dayal R, Fortuna L, Borba C, Silverstein M
• Home-Based Telemental Health: A Proposed Privacy and Safety Protocol and Tool.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology 2021 Sharma A, Feuer V, Stuart BK, Folk JB, Doan BT, Kulkarni CA, Ramtekkar U, Fortuna L, Myers K
• Rapid creation of child telemental health services during COVID-19 to promote continued care for underserved children and families.
  Psychological services 2021 Tolou-Shams M, Folk J, Stuart B, Mangurian C, Fortuna L
• The Transition of Academic Mental Health Clinics to Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2021 Folk JB, Schiel MA, Oblath R, Feuer V, Sharma A, Khan S, Doan B, Kulkarni C, Ramtekkar U, Hawks J, Fornari V, Fortuna LR, Myers K
• Editorial: Disrupting Pathways to Self-Harm in Adolescence: Machine Learning as an Opportunity.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2021 Fortuna LR
• Structural Inequities and the Impact of COVID-19 on Latinx Children: Implications for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practice.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2021 Rothe EM, Fortuna LR, Tobon AL, Postlethwaite A, Sanchez-Lacay JA, Anglero YL
• Principles of Care for Young Adults With Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders.
  Pediatrics 2021 Spencer AE, Valentine SE, Sikov J, Yule AM, Hsu H, Hallett E, Xuan Z, Silverstein M, Fortuna L
• Development of a cognitive behavioral therapy with integrated mindfulness for Latinx immigrants with co-occurring disorders: Analysis of intermediary outcomes.
  Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy 2020 Fortuna LR, Falgas-Bague I, Ramos Z, Porche MV, Alegría M
• Improving Research Quality to Achieve Mental Health Equity.
  The Psychiatric clinics of North America 2020 Moore Q, Tennant PS, Fortuna LR
• Inequity and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color in the United States: The need for a trauma-informed social justice response.
  Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy 2020 Fortuna LR, Tolou-Shams M, Robles-Ramamurthy B, Porche MV
• Affirmative Care Across Cultures: Broadening Application.
  Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) 2020 Mendoza NS, Moreno FA, Hishaw GA, Gaw AC, Fortuna LR, Skubel A, Porche MV, Roessel MH, Shore J, Gallegos A
• Simulation and minimization: technical advances for factorial experiments designed to optimize clinical interventions.
  BMC medical research methodology 2019 Kuhn J, Sheldrick RC, Broder-Fingert S, Chu A, Fortuna L, Jordan M, Rubin D, Feinberg E
• Using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework to test intervention delivery strategies: a study protocol.
  Trials 2019 Broder-Fingert S, Kuhn J, Sheldrick RC, Chu A, Fortuna L, Jordan M, Rubin D, Feinberg E
• Trauma, immigration, and sexual health among Latina women: Implications for maternal-child well-being and reproductive justice.
  Infant mental health journal 2019 Fortuna LR, Noroña CR, Porche MV, Tillman C, Patil PA, Wang Y, Markle SL, Alegría M
• Depression in Latino and Immigrant Refugee Youth: Clinical Opportunities and Considerations.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2019 Concepcion Zayas MT, Fortuna LR, Cullins LM
• Evaluation of the Integrated Intervention for Dual Problems and Early Action Among Latino Immigrants With Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Misuse Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA network open 2019 Alegría M, Falgas-Bague I, Collazos F, Carmona Camacho R, Lapatin Markle S, Wang Y, Baca-García E, Lê Cook B, Chavez LM, Fortuna L, Herrera L, Qureshi A, Ramos Z, González C, Aroca P, Albarracín …
• Sleep disturbance as a predictor of time to drug and alcohol use treatment in primary care.
  Sleep medicine 2018 Fortuna LR, Cook B, Porche MV, Wang Y, Amaris AM, Alegria M
• Which girls, which boys? The intersectional risk for depression by race and ethnicity, and gender in the U.S.
  Clinical psychology review 2017 Patil PA, Porche MV, Shippen NA, Dallenbach NT, Fortuna LR
• A treatment development study of a cognitive and mindfulness-based therapy for adolescents with co-occurring post-traumatic stress and substance use disorder.
  Psychology and psychotherapy 2017 Fortuna LR, Porche MV, Padilla A
• Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and their Relationship to Drug and Alcohol use in an International Sample of Latino Immigrants.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2017 Ramos Z, Fortuna LR, Porche MV, Wang Y, Shrout PE, Loder S, McPeck S, Noyola N, Toro M, Carmona R, Alegría M
• Mental health, migration stressors and suicidal ideation among Latino immigrants in Spain and the United States.
  European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists 2016 Fortuna LR, Álvarez K, Ramos Ortiz Z, Wang Y, Mozo Alegría X, Cook BL, Alegría M
• Distal and Proximal Religiosity as Protective Factors for Adolescent and Emerging Adult Alcohol Use.
  Religions 2015 Porche MV, Fortuna LR, Wachholtz A, Stone RT
• An exploration of how psychotic-like symptoms are experienced, endorsed, and understood from the National Latino and Asian American Study and National Survey of American Life.
  Ethnicity & health 2014 Earl TR, Fortuna LR, Gao S, Williams DR, Neighbors H, Takeuchi D, Alegría M
• Prevalence, risk, and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder across ethnic and racial minority groups in the United States.
  Medical care 2013 Alegría M, Fortuna LR, Lin JY, Norris FH, Gao S, Takeuchi DT, Jackson JS, Shrout PE, Valentine A
• Korean American Women's Experiences with Smoking and Factors Associated with Their Quit Intentions.
  ISRN Addiction 2013 Kim SS, Kim S, Seward G, Fortuna L, McKee SA
• Childhood trauma and psychiatric disorders as correlates of school dropout in a national sample of young adults.
  Child development 2011 Porche MV, Fortuna LR, Lin J, Alegria M
• Retention in depression treatment among ethnic and racial minority groups in the United States.
  Depression and anxiety 2010 Fortuna LR, Alegria M, Gao S
• A systematic review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual diagnostic criteria for nicotine dependence.
  Addictive behaviors 2009 DiFranza J, Ursprung WW, Lauzon B, Bancej C, Wellman RJ, Ziedonis D, Kim SS, Gervais A, Meltzer B, McKay CE, O'Loughlin J, Okoli CT, Fortuna LR, Tremblay M
• Prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Southeastern Spain: the Ariadna study.
  Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2009 Gavrila D, Antúnez C, Tormo MJ, Carles R, García Santos JM, Parrilla G, Fortuna L, Jiménez J, Salmerón D, Navarro C
• A qualitative study of clinicians' use of the cultural formulation model in assessing posttraumatic stress disorder.
  Transcultural psychiatry 2009 Fortuna LR, Porche MV, Alegría M
• Psychological distress as a barrier to preventive healthcare among U.S. women.
  The journal of primary prevention 2009 Witt WP, Kahn R, Fortuna L, Winickoff J, Kuhlthau K, Pirraglia PA, Ferris T
• Political violence, psychosocial trauma, and the context of mental health services use among immigrant Latinos in the United States.
  Ethnicity & health 2008 Fortuna LR, Porche MV, Alegria M
• Prevalence and Correlates of Everyday Discrimination among U.S. Latinos.
  Journal of community psychology 2008 Pérez DJ, Fortuna L, Alegria M
• Patient--provider communication: understanding the role of patient activation for Latinos in mental health treatment.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2008 Cortes DE, Mulvaney-Day N, Fortuna L, Reinfeld S, Alegría M
• Prevalence and correlates of lifetime suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among Latino subgroups in the United States.
  The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2007 Fortuna LR, Perez DJ, Canino G, Sribney W, Alegria M
• Children's use of motor vehicle restraints: maternal psychological distress, maternal motor vehicle restraint practices, and sociodemographics.
  Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association 2006 Witt WP, Fortuna L, Wu E, Kahn RS, Winickoff JP, Pirraglia PA, Ferris TG, Kuhlthau K
• Why do so many latina teens attempt suicide? A conceptual model for research.
  The American journal of orthopsychiatry 2005 Zayas LH, Lester RJ, Cabassa LJ, Fortuna LR