Stephanie Milan, Ph.D.

Stephanie Milan, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Connecticut. Dr. Milan received a joint doctoral degree in Clinical and Quantitative Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2001. She then completed a clinical internship at the Yale Child Study Center, with a focus on mental health services for underserved children, adolescents, and families. Following internship, Dr. Milan spent two years as an NIMH postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aids at Yale University. Dr. Milan’s current research and clinical interests include identifying risk and protective factors during the transition to early motherhood; developing mental health and violence prevention programs for high-risk new mothers; and developing empirically grounded reproductive health promotion programs for adolescents in alternative settings (e.g., psychiatric facilities, foster care). She has also worked as a statistical consultant on several large research projects and interventions, and is particularly interested in the use of longitudinal methods and structural equation modeling to address developmental research questions.