Lucas Zullo, PhD

Lucas Zullo, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow & Clinical Instructor

Lucas Zullo, Ph.D. obtained his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Currently he is a NIMH Diversity Fellow and Clinical Instructor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA, under the mentorship of Drs. Joan Asarnow and Jeanne Miranda. His research focuses on adolescent suicide prevention, with an interest in harnessing mHealth technology for suicide prevention and improving care for suicidal LGBTQ youth. Currently he is assisting with the development of a mHealth intervention that serves as a decision aid on lethal means restriction for parents of suicidal adolescents. On his NIMH Diversity supplement, Dr. Zullo is studying the attitudes and beliefs of ethnic and racial minority youth around mHealth utilization for suicide prevention.