Lynn Ponton, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at UCSF, a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and the author of The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do and The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls. She works primarily with adolescents, focusing on risk behaviors such as sexual experimentation and eating disorders. She enjoys writing and has been published widely in scholarly journals, textbooks, newspapers, magazines, editorials, online and has been interviewed by numerous television and radio shows, magazines, and newspapers.
Ponton is the mother of two young adult daughters and lives in San Francisco. She is very interested in the future of young people throughout the world and believes that parenting children, adolescents, and young adults is the world’s greatest challenge. Through her work and writing, she hopes to contribute knowledge and practical information to this vital area.