Laura Delizonna, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow working in juvenile delinquency, supported by The California Wellness Foundation Violence Prevention Initiative – Academic Scholars Program. She completed her graduate training in clinical psychology at Boston University. Her research interests focus on developing and evaluating mental health interventions for delinquent and at-risk youth. She is also interested in the relationship between cognitive styles such as mindfulness (without meditation) and psychopathology and resiliency. Current projects include developing effective interventions for juvenile delinquents at local and state detention centers and for at-risk adolescents at a local high school.

Niranjan Karnik, M.D., Ph.D. is a Resident in Psychiatry at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. His major research interests focus on children in especially difficult circumstances. His scholarship explores the social construction of psychiatric categories and nomenclature, cultural studies of health and medicine, vulnerable children and violence, qualitative and ethnographic research methods, and poststructuralist theory. He is currently conducting research about incarcerated adolescents, and his previous research has included work with street children in India, refugee children on the Pakistan-Afghan border, and foster and inner-city youth in the US.

Leena A. Khanzode, M.D. is a Psychiatrist from India and is working as a Research Assistant on projects involving aggression and its diagnosis and treatment at Dr. Steiner’s Lab. Leena completed her graduate training in General Psychiatry at University of Mumbai, India in 2001. After immigrating to the US in 2001 she has devoted her time in pursuing research in Child Psychiatry. Her research interests include bipolar disorder, psychometrics and clinical drug trials. Leena has also volunteered at the Esther B. Clark School in the Children’s Health Council. She is in the process of her applying to residency programs in Psychiatry and intends to pursue her research interests in the area of Child Psychiatry.

Michelle King is the psychometrician and support for the Steiner Lab.
She graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.A. in Sociology in 2001. She has been a part of the lab since July of 2002 gaining clinical and research experience as an integral part of her education prior to graduate school. She is interested in clinical psychology, and will be applying to programs for Fall of 2004.
Michelle’s most recent focus has been on researching Stanford athletes, and is interested in investigating motives and outcomes of repressive personalities. Her other projects include investigating maladaptive defenses and trauma related psychopathology in juvenile delinquents, assisting clinical trials, and researching different domains of integrative treatment.

Dr. Pyle received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests relate to the definitional and measurement issues of school readiness and the impact of athletic participation on mental and physical health. Dr. Pyle is the Project Director for the Mental Health and Sports project in the Steiner Lab.
Currently, she and a team of researchers are collecting data on college athletes. The goals of the project include broadening our understanding of the mental and physical health of college athletes, and determining the utility of supplementing self-report data with objective assessments of health status in this unique population.

Dr. Kirti Saxena is an APA Research Fellow in Dr. Steiner’s lab. Her areas of interest are psychopharmacology, disruptive behavior disorders and mood disorders in children and adolescents. Dr. Saxena is a graduate of Albert Szent- Gyorgy Medical School, Szeged, Hungary. She completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency training from LAC-USC Medical Center, LA and then went on to complete a fellowship in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry from Stanford University. In addition to being a research fellow, Dr. Saxena is a staff psychiatrist at the Stanford Child/Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic.

Astrid Schallauer is a visiting Research Assistant form Vienna University in Autria at the Steiner Lab. She has studied Psychology for 4 years at the University of Vienna and came here to analyze data for her theses. She is particularly interested in Emotion Regulation which seems to be a crucial factor in most of the clinical disorders. In a recent paper she has written about the role of Emotion Regulation as a mediator between Trauma and Delinquency. There are several projects she is working on right now:
- collecting and summarizing articles about trauma, dissociation and delinquency.
- analyzing Interviews with a new assessment concerning the narrative intention of  the interviewed person.
- organizing the Psychometrics. 

Ryan P. Williams graduated from Northwestern University in June 2003 with a BA in Psychology. In September, he will enter the MD program at Stanford University School of Medicine to learn medicine and to eventually pursue a career as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. In the Steiner lab, Ryan is working on a theory he developed as an undergraduate that looks at the propensity for positive life events to be proximal stressors for depression in children with low self-concepts. The idea for this theory originated from a theory of identity disruption proposed by Jonathan D. Brown, PhD, at the University of Washington. Currently, he has been investigating the concept of Allostatic Load, advanced by Bruce S. McEwen, PhD, at the Rockefeller Institute, and how it may provide a framework for the underlying concept in his research that incongruent, unpredictable life events can cause a detriment to a child’s health. Ryan’s other research interests include psychiatric epidemiology, specifically psychiatric problems in different communities, borderline personality disorder, and psychiatric problems in the homeless.