Evaluating Adaptive Treatments for Suicidal College Students: Primary Outcomes and Moderators from the CAMPUS Trial

Sponsored by The Ewald W. Busse, MD, ScD Lectureship Endowment Fund Dr. Compton received his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, under the mentorship of Bill Follette and Steve Hayes. He completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric anxiety and OCD at Duke University with Dr. John March, and additional postdoctoral training in developmental epidemiology and mental health services research with Drs. Jane Costello and Barbara Burns. Following his postdoctoral training, he joined the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine in 2001, later holding a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, serving as core faculty in the PhD program in clinical psychology, where he taught research methods and biostatistics. During his 26 years at Duke, he directed the Program in Child Anxiety and Affective Disorders (PCAAD), the Data Center for the Autism Center of Excellence, and the Psychiatry Clinical Research Unit. He maintained an active outpatient clinical practice and led multiple large NIH-funded clinical trials and collaborative research programs focused on anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, ADHD, autism, and suicide risk among children, adolescents, and young adults. He is currently the Chief Psychologist and Vice Chair for Psychology at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He also directs the newly established Complex Clinical Trials Design Core, which supports the design and implementation of innovative clinical trials and related research methods as an institutional resource. His broader research interests include behavioral theory, philosophy of science, advanced data analysis and clinical trial design, particularly adaptive and pragmatic clinical trials, the application of artificial intelligence to clinical research and care, and implementing evidence-based treatments into community settings.