Stanford Center on Adolescence

His current and past research on adolescents includes the following:

Longitudinal studies to determine risk factors for eating and anxiety disorders. Interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk factors and promote a healthy lifestyle in middle and high school students. Interventions to prevent eating disorders in early adolescents. Interventions to promote physical activity in early adolescent African-American and Hispanic females. Innovative technological approaches to helping adolescents achieve a healthy lifestyle. He has helped develop a NintendoTM game to prevent smoking in older children and young adolescents, an interactive cardiovascular risk reduction program for high school students, an interactive weight loss program for high school students, and a Web-based program to prevent eating disorders in first-year college students. The effect of the Web-based program to prevent the incidence of eating disorders in first-year college students is now being examined in a long-term controlled study. The development of these new technologies may drastically change the field of disease prevention and provide new tools for prosocial learning.