Professor
University of Miami
Dr. Steven Safren is a Professor and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami (UM) where he is the Director of the UM Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health. His research is on health behavior change and behavioral health, with a particular emphasis on mental health and substance use components of HIV prevention and treatment domestically and internationally. He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami in 2015 after 18 years working in the Harvard Medical School system at Massachusetts General Hospital where he was a Professor and Director of the Behavioral Medicine Service and led behavioral science studies at Fenway Health. He has been PI or protocol chair of 20 federally funded studies (via NIMH, NIDA, and NIAID), and, in addition to studies where I am PI, he has regularly served as co-PI, co-investigator, or mentor on studies related to HIV prevention and treatment. Finally, he developed and tested one of the only evidenced-based psychosocial treatments for ADHD in adults and extended that to adolescents.