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Lara Prizgint
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Lara Prizgint, LMHC, MSEd, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Senior Clinical Research Coordinator at Vanguard Research Group. She earned her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from St. John’s University in 2018. She has worked at Zucker Hillside Hospital for 10 years, contributing to numerous psychiatric research studies and conducting clinical and diagnostic assessments with adults and adolescents.
Her research experience includes studies involving depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Among these contributions, Lara coauthored a study on the development and validation of CAT-Psychosis, a computerized adaptive assessment tool for measuring psychotic symptoms in adults.
She also worked on a study involving adolescents ages 13–17 with bipolar disorder, examining whether smartphone keyboard metadata and sensor data could help identify youth at imminent risk for suicidal behaviors. Lara’s current work focuses on the BD² study—Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder—where she contributes her clinical assessment expertise as a member of Vanguard’s Centralized Clinical Rater Team.
Her work reflects a commitment to advancing psychiatric research through thorough clinical assessment and meaningful engagement with study participants.
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