Lydia A. Shrier, MD, MPH

Department	Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
Hospital Title	Senior Associate in Medicine
Academic Title	Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Phone	617-355-8306
Fax	617-730-0135
Email	Lydia Shrier
Location	1 Autumn Street, 5 Boston MA 02115

Research Overview

Lydia Shrier's research focuses on the link between mental health and 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 Boston Children's Hospital. She 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.

Dr. Shrier and her collaborators created the Safer Sex Intervention, a theory-based individualized intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors in high-risk adolescent girls. The Safer Sex Intervention is featured in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Compendium of Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions and was selected for replication funding as part of a $75M opportunity through the Office of Adolescent Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Currently, multiple sites across the U.S. are conducting replications of the Safer Sex Intervention.

Key Publications 

• Shrier LA, Walls C, Kendall AD, Blood EA. The context of desire to use marijuana: momentary assessment of young people who frequently use marijuana. Psychol Addict Behav. In press.
• Sunner LE, Walls C, Blood EA, Mehta CM, Shrier LA. Feasibility and utility of momentary sampling of sex events in young couples. J Sex Res. In press.
• Black SK, de Moor C, Kendall AD, Shrier LA. Feasibility of momentary sampling assessment of cannabis use in adolescents and young adults. J Child Adolesc Subst Abuse. In press.
• Shrier LA, Walls C, Lops C, Kendall AD, Blood EA. Substance use, sexual intercourse, and condom nonuse among depressed adolescents and young adults. J Adolesc Health 2012;50:264-270.
• Shrier LA, Feldman HA, Black SK, Walls C, Kendall AD, Lops C, Beardslee WR. Momentary affective states surrounding sexual intercourse in depressed adolescents and young adults. Arch Sex Behav On-line 2011; DOI: 10.1007/s10508-011-9787-4.
• Shrier LA, Walls C, Lops C, Feldman HA. Correlates of incorrect condom use among depressed young women: an event-level analysis. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol On-line 2010; DOI:10.1016/j.jpag.2010.04.002. In print 2011;24:10-4. NIHMS 208556.
• Shrier LA,  Schillinger JA, Aneja P, Rice PA, Batteiger BE, Braslins PG, Orr DP, Fortenberry JD. Depressive symptoms and sexual risk behavior in young, Chlamydia-infected, heterosexual dyads. J Adolesc Health 2009;45:63-69. 
• Shrier LA, Koren S, Aneja P, de Moor C. Affect regulation, social context, and sexual intercourse in adolescents. Arch Sex Behav On-line 2008; DOI 10.1007/s10508-008-9394-1. Print 2010;39:695-705.
• 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;40:357.e1-e8. 
• 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. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2001;155:73-79.