Liz D'Amico graduated from UT in 1999 and went to work at the UCSD Department of Psychology. She was on the research faculty there and coordinated a large high school and middle school survey and intervention project that took place in 9 schools in the San Dieguito Union High School District. She also taught classes while at UCSD, such as Introduction to Clinical Psychology and Drugs and Addiction. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in California and is now an Associate Behavioral Scientist at RAND corporation in Santa Monica.She loves being back in LA as does her husband, Patrick. She had a baby boy, Seth, on August 21,

2003. Her work focuses on adolescent risk-taking behavior, the development of innovative interventions with this population, and treatment outcome research. She is currently principal investigator on a project funded by NIAAA that focuses on examining younger adolescents' (6th, 7th, and 8th grade) help-seeking behavior and the development and standardization of a developmentally sensitive intervention program for this age group. She is in the process of developing an intervention for high risk youth in a continuation school in Santa Monica. She is also teaching courses at UCLA. For more information on her research, you can visit the RAND website at www.rand.org.