Persis Commissariat, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist in the Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Section and a Research Associate in the Section of Clinical, Behavioral, and Outcomes Research, as well as an Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Commissariat received her graduate degree from Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She completed her pediatric psychology residency at the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine and her pediatric psychology fellowship training at Joslin Diabetes Center. Dr. Commissariat provides individual and family therapy to children, teens, and young adults with diabetes at Joslin, with a special interest in adjustment to new diabetes diagnosis, coping, diabetes burnout, treatment adherence issues. Dr. Commissariat’s research focuses on illness identity, new technologies, qualitative methods, and behavior change. She has presented her work at national and international research meetings for the American Diabetes Association (ADA), Behavioral Research in Diabetes Group Exchange (BRIDGE), JDRF, International Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), and the Type 1 Exchange Registry. She is a member of ADA and BRIDGE, and on the Psychosocial Advisory Board for JDRF.