Website: drsharonlo.com | Twitter: @DrSharonLo

Dr. Lo will be accepting PhD students for Fall 2021.

Sharon Lo, PhD, LP, received her doctorate from the Clinical Science program at Michigan State University and completed her predoctoral internship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University and Children’s Health Council Consortium. Most recently in her fellowship at University of Michigan, she obtained NIH funding through NICHD to test the role of early stress physiology in the relationship between early adversity, self-regulation, and emotional well-being in a sample of children with a history of living in poverty. Dr. Lo joined the Clinical Psychology PhD faculty in the School of Graduate Psychology in 2020.

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2018-2020
• Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Michigan State University, 2018
• Clinical Residency in Psychology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University and Children’s Health Council Consortium, 2017-2018

Recent Publications (*lab student co-author)

Pesch, M. H., Julian, M., Lo, S. L., Wu, J., Miller, A., Appugliese, D., & Lumeng, J. C. (Accepted, print forthcoming) Phenotypes of controlling feeding behaviors in mothers of toddlers: A mixed methods study. Pediatric Obesity.

Miller, A. L., Lo, S. L.,Albright, D., Lee, J. M., Hunter, C. M., Bauer, K. W., ... & Katz, B. (2020). Adolescent Interventions to Manage Self-Regulation in Type 1 Diabetes (AIMS-T1D): randomized control trial study protocol. BMC pediatrics, 20(1), 1-10.

Riley, H., Lo, S. L.,Rosenblum, K., Sturza, J., Kaciroti, N., Lumeng, J. C., Miller, A. L. (2020). Sex differences in the association between household chaos and bmiz in low-income toddlers. Childhood Obesity.

Miller, A. L., Lo, S. L.,Bauer, K. W., & Fredericks, E. M. (2020). Developmentally informed behaviour change techniques to enhance self-regulation in a health promotion context: A conceptual review. Health Psychology Review, 14(1), 116-131.

Hemberg, J. L., Pomeranz, E., Rogers, A. J., Lo, S. L., Harrison, L., Donohue, L., & Kullgren, K. (2020). Functional impairment predicts outcomes of youth with headache in the emergency department. Clinical Pediatrics, 59(1), 62-69.

Lo, S. L., & Miller, A. L. (2020). Learning behaviors and school engagement: opportunities and challenges with technology in the classroom. In Technology and Adolescent Health (pp. 79-113). Academic Press.

Lo, S. L. (2018). A meta-analytic review of event-related potentials (ERN and N2) in childhood and adolescence: A developmental perspective on effortful control and Conflict Monitoring Theory. Developmental Review, 48, 82-112.

Gornik, A., Neal J. W., Lo, S. L., & Durbin, C. E. (2018). Connections between preschoolers’ temperament traits and social behaviors as observed in a preschool setting. Social Development, 27(2), 335-350.

Schroder, H. S., Fisher, M., Lin, Y., Lo, S. L., & Moser, J. S. (2017). Neural evidence for enhanced attention to mistakes among school-aged children with a growth mindset. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 42-50.

Neal, J. W., Durbin, C. E., Gornik, A. E., & Lo, S. L. (2017). Co-development of preschoolers’ temperament traits and social play networks over an entire school year. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(4), 627-640.

Lo, S. L., Schroder, H. S., Fisher, M. E., Durbin, C. E., Fitzgerald, K. D., & Moser, J. S. (2016). Associations between disorder specific symptoms of anxiety and error monitoring brain activity in young children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45(7), 1439-1448.

Schleider, J. L., Schroder, H. S., Lo, S. L., Fisher, M. E., Danovitch, J. H., Weisz, J. R., & Moser, J. S. (2016). Parents' intelligence mindsets relate to child internalizing problems: Moderation through child gender and parent mastery orientation. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(12), 3627-3636.

Clark, D. A., Listro, C., Lo, S. L., Durbin, C. E., Donnellan, M. B., Neppl, T. K. (2016). Measurement invariance and child temperament: An evaluation of sex and informant differences on the Child Behavior Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment, 28(12), 1646-1662.

Roles and Interests

Dr. Lo holds expertise in examining how self-regulation develops in childhood, what gets in the way of such development, and how to support the development of these skills. This work has contributed to a program of research dedicated to elucidating pathways of emotional resilience that promote positive health outcomes in children and their families. Dr. Lo applies multi-method approaches to integrate behavioral and physiological measures to better understand how self-regulation processes unfold over time as well as within interventions. For example, Dr. Lo has tested mindfulness-based interventions to improve emotion regulation and reduce anxiety in pediatric populations with chronic medical illness. Future work includes bridging academia, digital health innovations, and community partners to better disseminate evidence-based practices to underserved populations. Applying participatory action research methods, Dr. Lo aims to increase access to evidence-based practices and interventions that enhance well-being in under-represented youth and communities of color.

Instructor

• Child Clinical Assessment
• Diversity Science
• Foundations in Psychological Science – Social and Emotional Development

Current Projects

• Measuring the impact of COVID, racial injustice, and climate change in adolescents and their parents on emotional well-being, stress, and mental health
• Examining protective factors that buffer against pandemic and lockdown stress in youth of color
• Mindfulness processes that mitigate stress effects in caregivers

Professional Memberships & Affiliations

• American Psychological Association
• American Psychological Science
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Society for Pediatric Psychology
• Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology