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Amy Hughes Lansing, Ph.D.

University of Vermont


Dr. Amy Hughes Lansing is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at the Unversity of Vermont.  Over the past decade, she has been conducting research on type 1 diabetes management in adolescence, including both developmental and clinical trials research.  Her research program, clinical training program, and service emphasize identifying key mechanisms that underlie success in scalable and pragmatic interventions to target those mechanisms in adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes.  These interventions include technology-delivered family therapy, online self-guided family mangement and behavior change skills training, and home-based mindfulness stress management taining.  One of her primary interests as a researcher and clinician is supporting the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions for youths with chronic diseases, in particular for rural health care providers.