Director of the Center for Translational Behavioral Science. College of Medicine’s, Florida State University. Tallahasee, USA.
Dr. Sylvie Naar is a Distinguished Endowed Professor at the Florida State University College of Medicine’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine. Dr. Naar is the Director of the Center for Translational Behavioral Science and Director of the FSU Clinical and Translational Science Award. She is a clinical researcher with studies across the spectrum of intervention research from early trials translating basic behavioral science into new interventions, to randomized clinical trials, to comparative effectiveness, to implementation.
She has several decades of clinical and research experience in prevention and treatment of HIV in adolescents and emerging adults in the United States, Thailand, and Zambia. Dr. Naar is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of trainers and authored two books in the Guildford Press Series, Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults and Motivational Interviewing and CBT.