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Lydia A. Shrier, MD, MPH
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   Department  Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
   Hospital Title  Assistant in Medicine
   Academic Title  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
   Phone  617-335-8306
   Fax  617-730-0135
   Email  Lydia Shrier
   Location  300 Longwood Avenue
Longwood Galleria
Boston MA 02115
Research Overview

Lydia Shrier's research focuses on the link between mental health and sexual risk behavior in adolescents, as well as on sexually transmitted infections and the behaviors that increase the risk of acquiring them.
About Lydia Shrier

Lydia Shrier received an MD with Distinction in Research from Albany Medical School. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. She subsequently received an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Shrier was finalist for the Society for Adolescent Medicine's New Investigator Award in 2000 and 2001. She is the 2004 recipient of the Harvard Medical School 50th Anniversary Program for Scholars in Medicine Priscilla and Richard Hunt Fellowship.
Key Publications
  • Shrier LA, Shih M-C, Beardslee WR. Affect and sexual behavior in adolescents: A review of the literature and comparison of momentary sampling with diary and retrospective self-report methods of measurement. Pediatrics. 2005;115:e573-e581.

  • Shrier LA, Shih M-C, Hacker L, de Moor C. A momentary sampling study of the affective experience following coital events in adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2007;40(4):357.e1-357.e8.

  • Shrier LA, Dean D, Klein E, Harter K, Rice PA. Limitations of screening tests for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in asymptomatic adolescent and young adult women. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2004; 190: 654-662.

  • Shrier LA, Harris SK, Beardslee WR. Temporal associations between depressive symptoms and self-reported sexually transmitted disease among adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 2002; 156: 599-606.

  • Shrier LA, Ancheta R, Goodman E, Chiou VM, Lyden MR, Emans SJ. Randomized controlled trial of a safer sex intervention for high-risk adolescent girls. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 2001. 155: 73-79.
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