Ric G. Steele

Ric Steele earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Georgia in 1998, after which he completed a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Division of Behavioral Medicine at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. In 2000, Dr. Steele joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he has published more than 95 empirical articles, approximately 40 chapters and reviews, and 6 books. Steele's empirical research has been funded by grants from the US DHHS Maternal Child Health Bureau, and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.

Steele is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and serves on the editorial boards for Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Steele is Board Certified (ABPP) in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and recently served as a member of the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board (KS BSRB).

Dr. Steele served as Director of the KU Clinical Child Psychology Doctoral Program from 2012 until 2022, and as Interim Chair of the Department of Economics from 2022 to 2023.  Steele currently serves as the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, and as the faculty supervisor for the Child Life Specialty concentration in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science.