Samuel Meisel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Director of the SUMMIT Lab, Boston University
Expertise: Licensed clinical psychologist, adolescent substance use, peer relationships, developmental psychopathology, longitudinal data analytic techniques
Dr. Samuel Meisel received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, in 2020. He completed his clinical residency at the Alpert Warren Medical School of Brown University, a two-year NIAAA-funded F32 postdoctoral fellowship, and a two-year NIAAA-funded K99 postdoctoral fellowship at E. P. Bradley Hospital and Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. He joined the BU faculty in 2024. His research focuses on social relationships, such as peer and caregiver relationships, and how they interact with multiple levels of influence (e.g., temperament, schools, neighborhoods) to influence adolescent substance use etiology and treatment. The overarching questions guiding his work include (1) What developmental pathways lead to adolescent substance use? (2) What are the critical ingredients of adolescent substance use treatments that lead to behavior change? (3) How do we leverage developmental science and work on key ingredients to improve and scale adolescent substance use treatments?
Pronouns: he/him
smeisel@bu.edu