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 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, Walls C, Lops C, Kendall AD, Blood EA. Substance use, sexual intercourse, and condom nonuse among depressed adolescents and young adults. J Adolesc Health 2011; in press.
• 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(1):10-4. NIHMS 208556.
• 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 2011, accepted.
• Levy S, Sherritt L, Gabrielli J, Shrier LA, Knight JR. Screening adolescents for substance use-related high-risk sexual behaviors. J Adolesc Health 2009;45(5):473-7.
• 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(1):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(3):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(4):357.e1-e8.