Susan Rosenthal

Susan L. Rosenthal, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Division of Adolescent and Behavioral Health
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston, Texas

Susan Rosenthal, PhD, is Professor of the Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Adolescent and Behavioral Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in Texas. She has been a Senior Scientist at the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston since 2001, and she is also a member of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.

Dr Rosenthal earned her BA in Psychology from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1978. She worked as a Pediatric Psychology Intern at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland from 1985 to 1986. Dr. Rosenthal graduated with a PhD in Psychology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1986, after which she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1986-1988.

Dr Rosenthal's area of research mainly concentrates on the acceptability of vaccines by preadolescents, adolescents, and their parents, and the prevention, management, and sequalae of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents including HSV-2 and HPV. She has published over 100 articles, book chapters, newsletters and web articles. In addition, Dr Rosenthal has edited one book, Clinical Assessment in Child & Adolescent Psychology (2001) and one special issue of Pediatric Annals entitled Adolescent Sexuality, which is currently in press. Dr Rosenthal also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation and the Journal of Adolescent and Pediatric Gynecology.

Dr Rosenthal has been honored with the awards for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (2005-2006) and the Society for Adolescent Medicine Iris F. Litt Visiting Professorship in Adolescent Health Research (2006).