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Stuart
Hauser, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator, PATHS
shauser@jbcc.harvard.edu
Dr. Stuart T. Hauser is the former president of Judge Baker Children's Center and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hauser continues in his role as principal investigator of Judge Baker’s Paths Over Time and Across Generations Project.
During Dr. Hauser’s 10-year term as president, he strengthened the Center's commitment to its original mission: to provide services of the highest standard, search for new knowledge, educate and train professionals serving children and their families, and apply and disseminate relevant knowledge to promote the healthy development of children and their families.
Career Overview
Since returning to Harvard Medical School, Dr. Hauser has directed two longitudinal studies of adolescent development. The first study focuses on psychosocial determinants and consequences of adolescent onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The second study addresses family aspects of adolescent ego development in high school students and psychiatric patients. The latter study, Paths Over Time and Across Generations, is now in its second decade and extends into the young adult and mid-life adult years. This research has evolved into a three-generation study of development that includes the parents, spouses, and children of the original adolescent subjects. Central questions in this 25-year development study concern trajectories of psychosocial development from adolescence through several phases of adulthood, and their relation to major tasks of these years – forming of close and romantic peer relationships, attachments with family of origin, beginning new families, parenting, and work relationships.
Education and Training: Dr. Hauser earned his BS in Philosophy and Physics from Antioch College in 1960, and his M. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 1965. In 1966, he earned his MD from Yale University School of Medicine. He received his residency training in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center from 1967 to 1970. Shortly after completing his residency, Dr. Hauser began his early research training in adolescent development, adolescent psychopathology, and family processes at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1977, he received his PhD in Developmental Psychology and Personality from Harvard University, and completed his training in psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute the following year.