Steering Committee Member

AssoCIATE PROFESSOR
USC Keck School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and the behavioral sciences

Dr. Semple is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC; Director of Psychological and Behavioral Health Services at LAC+USC Medical Center; and Program Director for the USC Adolescent Trauma Training Center. 

Dr. Semple’s research and clinical interests are in the applications of mindfulness to psychological health and well-being, with focus on the development and evaluation of mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents in clinic and school settings. She serves on the steering committee of Mindful USC, the research committee of the American Mindfulness Research Association, and is Co-Principal Investigator of the USC Center for Mindfulness Science. 

A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Semple is lead developer of the evidence-based clinical intervention, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C) and a mindfulness curriculum adapted for K-12 classrooms, The Mindfulness Matters Program (MMP). She has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific publications and two books for clinicians and K-12 teachers: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children (2011, New Harbinger) and The Mindfulness Matters Program for Children and Adolescents: Strategies, Activities, and Techniques for Therapists and Teachers (2019, Guilford). More information about these programs is available on Dr. Semple’s website at www.randyesemple.com.