Lauren Dalicandro

Lauren (she/her) is completing her PhD in the Clinical Psychology program at Lakehead University. Her research centers around substance use disorders and improving intervention effectiveness and cultural fit for First Nations people. Her dissertation work is supervised by Dr. Chris Mushquash. It focuses on identifying individual and group-level success factors to improve outcomes for First Nations adults in an inpatient substance use program. This dissertation project will result in the development and piloting of a psychological measure for the purpose of improving program decision-making and outcomes. Lauren's work has been supported by the St. Joseph's Care Group Award in Applied Health Research and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. In her free time, Lauren enjoys snowboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, and hiking.