Dr. Randi Schuster is Director of the Center for School Behavioral Health, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Director of Neuropsychology at the Center for Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and licensed clinical psychologist. She received her BA from the University of Maryland, College Park and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received specialized training in neuropsychology and addiction medicine as a pre-doctoral intern and post-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Schuster’s program of school-based research is aimed at defining the etiological determinants of early substance use as well as elucidating the behavioral, biological, and environmental factors that promote both risk and resiliency from adolescent-onset substance use. Her work places a particular emphasis on vulnerable sub-populations including adolescents with and at risk for neuropsychiatric illness. Dr. Schuster’s research priorities also involve the translation of basic research findings to the development and dissemination of tailored school-based intervention and prevention efforts for adolescent substance use, and the application of findings to scientifically-guided policy decision-making.

Dr. Schuster has been the recipient of multiple awards to fund her research from Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, National Institutes of Health, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her ongoing studies capitalize on her expertise in neuropsychological protocol implementation, treatment development, recruitment and retention of high-risk cohorts in community-based settings, and longitudinal analytic approaches.