Her studies aim to uncover innovative ways in which parents and teachers encourage children’s friendships in order to improve existing interventions for peer problems in the population of youth with Attention- Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder. Dr. Mikami received her BA and MA in Psychology from Stanford University in 1998, her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UC Berkeley in 2004, and completed clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Francisco. She is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar and has active research projects funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Institute for Education Sciences (USA).