Dr. Kimberley D. Lakes is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside. She is an alumna of University of Wisconsin, Madison and completed a clinical child psychology internship at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and a clinical psychology postdoctoral fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Orange County and University of California, Irvine. She began her academic career with a faculty appointment in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and in 2018, left UCI and joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine. Dr. Lakes is a licensed psychologist who practices neuropsychology at the university, with a specialty in child and adolescent neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly ADHD. The central aim of her research is to contribute to scientific understanding of self-regulation and executive functions in children and adolescents. In collaboration with Dr. Hayes and Dr. Cibrian, she received funding from the Agency for Health Research and Quality and National Institutes of Health to develop and study a digital health intervention for children and adolescents with ADHD that includes intervention delivered through Apple Watches for children and a paired iPhone application for parents. She has received a number of awards from the National Institutes of Health for the impact of her work on youth who experience health disparities. Other awards for her work include the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Aspen Brain Forum Young Investigator Prize (awarded at the international Aspen Brain Forum hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, Aspen Brain Foundation, and National Science Foundation), and a research fellowship to the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
