Dr. Pantin, a Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has had a distinguished career in her 20 years as a faculty member at the Center for Family Studies. She is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Associate Director of the... Read more

Dr. Pantin, a Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has had a distinguished career in her 20 years as a faculty member at the Center for Family Studies. She is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Associate Director of the Prevention Division. She is the Principal Investigator of a $2.8 million, NIDA-funded research grant and has been Co-Principal Investigator of several other NIH-grants amounting to more than $10 million. In her previous role as the Director of the Center for Family Studies Prevention Division, she launched a systematic program of research for the prevention of problem behaviors in Hispanic adolescents. Dr. Pantin is the clinical model developer of Familias Unidas, a very promising family-centered, ecodevelopmental intervention to prevent behavior problems (including conduct problems, drug abuse, HIV risky sexual behaviors) in Hispanic adolescents. Dr. Pantin currently has over 50 scholarly publications including several that describe the Familias Unidas clinical model and/or the results of clinical trials documenting the efficacy of the Familias Unidas intervention. Dr. Pantin was selected as the 2003 Winner of the Outstanding Research Publication Award by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and received the National Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the National Hispanic Science Network in 2005. Most recently, she was awarded the 2010 Community, Culture, and Prevention Science Award by the Society for Prevention Research. Dr. Pantin serves on the National Institute of Mental Health's Consortium on Family and HIV/AIDS, is a member of National Institute on Drug Abuse’s National Hispanic Science Network, and is a member of the Society for Prevention Research.

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