Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Adolescent Medicine

Elizabeth M. Ozer is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also Assistant Director for the National Adolescent Health Information Center and Assistant Director for Adolescent Health in the Public Policy Analysis & Education Center for Middle Childhood, Adolescent & Young Adult Health, both at UCSF.  Dr. Ozer’s work focuses primarily of the health of women, adolescents and families, with an emphasis on research with implications for social policy. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator and Project Director of the largest evaluation of clinical preventive services for adolescents in managed care settings. She has held policy internships on U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senate Health Subcommittee, in the office of U.S. Senator Carl Levin, and in the legislative affairs division of the American Psychological Association. She has received several grants and has published in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Women’s Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Health Services Research. She received an M.A. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Psychology from Stanford University, completed an APA-accredited clinical psychology internship in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Stanford, and received an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in health psychology with a traineeship in Adolescent Medicine at UCSF.