Dr. Marilyn Stern received her Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in clinical health psychology. Before she joined USF in 2013, she held academic positions at the University at Albany and Virginia Commonwealth University. At USF, she holds a primary appointment in the Department of Child and Family Studies as well as an affiliate position in the Departments of Psychology and Pediatrics. She also holds a Full Member position at the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. Her primary professional focus in pediatric psychosocial oncology has been in children and adolescents with cancer, communication, and transition to survivorship; developing interventions to reduce childhood and adolescent obesity, and the vulnerable child syndrome. Her current work strives to identify those factors related to developing interventions to optimize development among children and adolescents transitioning off active cancer treatment. She also has a related line of community-based intervention work targeting vulnerable Latino youth and their working families with obesity living in rural communities. She has been recognized for her scholarship and has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Fellow of the American Psychological Association (in 3 Divisions). She also was awarded Outstanding Researcher at USF in 2021 and is recipient of the Dorothy Booz Black Award for Outstanding Scholarship and was twice awarded a senior Fulbright scholarship for international work and named a Lady Davis international fellow. She most recently was elected as fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM). Dr. Stern leads an active lab: Interventions for Health-promotion in Oncology and Obesity in Pediatrics (I-HOPE) and is currently PI of several grants from the National Institutes of Health to support her intervention work in pediatric psychosocial oncology and obesity.