Lucas Zullo, PhD

Dr. Zullo has over a decade of experience providing family-focused, evidence-based suicide prevention care in a variety of settings, including intensive outpatient, inpatient, consult liaison, and the emergency department. Throughout his career, he has gained expertise in cutting edge suicide-prevention treatments by working directly with the developers of these interventions themselves. Dr. Zullo provides training and supervision to a wide range of trainees including psychiatry residents and fellows, as well as psychology postdoctoral fellows and masters level providers. He prides himself on delivering evidence-based care with rigorous clinical fidelity while also making therapy engaging and accessible to families to maximize clinical outcomes.

As Clinical Director of the David Farber ASPIRE Center, Dr. Zullo has a passion for community-partnered, equity driven care and is committed to making the services provided by the ASPIRE Center available to all families seeking care. His research focuses on quality improvement of clinical care, especially for improvement of care for LGBTQ+ youth at risk for suicide and he strives to elevate the voices of those with lived expertise in research.

Dr. Zullo is extremely active within national organizations, including the American Psychological Association, Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Within the NCTSN, Dr. Zullo is one of the founders and co-leaders of the NCTSN Trauma-Informed Suicide Prevention and Postvention Community of Practice and is a collaborator within the NCTSN Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Collaborative group. Additionally, Dr. Zullo is an on-call consultant for The Trevor Project and 988.