Robert Miranda Jr., PhD, MEd

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Robert Miranda, Jr., PhD, MEd, ABPP, is the founder and director of Vista at Bradley Hospital and a board-certified clinical psychologist. He has committed his career as a clinician scientist to advancing understanding of how substance-related problems develop during adolescence and to  improving innovative therapeutics to treat youth during the early stages of addiction.

He directs a federally-funded research program on the treatment of young people with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, with a particular focus on testing new pharmacological and digital interventions. He has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, or mentor on nearly 50 federally-funded research projects, and he has developed several novel assessment and intervention approaches for adolescents with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders.

In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Miranda founded and directs the intensive adolescent substance use and mental health treatment program (Vista) at Bradley Hospital. The program is the region's premier teenage substance use and mental health treatment service and training clinic. It received recognition as a model treatment program for youth with co-occurring disorders by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Miranda is also a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, professor of behavioral and social sciences at Brown University School of Public Health, and postdoctoral training director at Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.

As both a clinician and a scientist, he understands intimately the day-to-day clinical management of substance use disorders in youth, along with the shortcomings of the best available therapies and areas that warrant more research attention.