Lynn Ponton

Education

• 1969-1973 University of Wisconsin, Madison: B.A., Cum Laude, Biochemistry
• 1973-1974 Pasteur Institute, Paris, France: Research Assistant, Biochemistry
• 1974-1978 University of Wisconsin, Madison: M.D., Medicine
• 1977-1978 Maudsley and King's College Medical School
• 1978-1979 St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City: Resident, Pediatrics
• 1979-1980 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Resident, Adult Psychiatry
• 1980-1981 University of California, San Francisco: Resident, Adult Psychiatry
• 1981-1983 University of California, San Francisco: Fellow, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• 1983-1992 San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute: Psychoanalytic Trainee

  Faculty appointments

• 1994–present, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
• 1988-1994, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
• 1983-1988, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

  Books

• The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do
• The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls
• Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior