Division of Social and Behavioral Medicine

Research Activites

Tobacco Control Clinical Research: telephone, mailed, web-based, and pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation across large populations and broad geographic areas; health care provider interventions; attitudes, beliefs, readiness to change and intervention practices among smokers and health care providers; special populations including adolescents and older adults.

Historical Perspectives on Health care: health politics and policy in twentieth century America; career patterns of social activist physicians; American psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, 1880-1980; health services research and its transformations; public health in twentieth century America.

Cancer Control Clinical Research: etiology, prevention, and amelioration of adverse effects of cancer treatment, including role of the autonomic nervous system in the development and expression of chemotherapy-associated nausea; role of cognitive factors, including patient expectations, in the development of anticipatory and post-treatment nausea; prevention and treatment of fatigue in patients receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy; cognitive consequences of receipt of chemotherapy.

Sociolinguistic Analyses of provider-Patient Communications

Academic Activities

Courses Offered:
PM410 Intro to Data Management and Analysis Using The SAS System
PM412 Survey Research
PM420 Intro. Politics and Policy in the U.S. Healthcare System
PM426 Social and Behavioral Medicine
PM470/PPA473 Public Health and the Environment
PM479/HIS20 Health, Medicine and Social Reform
PM480/HIS209 Changing Concepts of Disease
Special topic seminars and independent study research

Other Educational Activities:
Offer postdoctoral fellowships
Contribute to Medical School curriculum
Undergraduate courses
Undergraduate, graduate, medical student research placements
Participating faculty on training grants

Other Training:
Provide CME training to pediatric health providers in tobacco cessation intervention
Partner with Monroe County on GottaQuit campaign and website for teen smokers
Host colloquia/seminar on Social and Behavioral Medicine topics
Cardiovascular Health Practitioners' Institute (www.cvhpinstitute.org) (S. McIntosh, Co-Director)
Nutrition Academic Award Program (www.naarochester.org) (S. McIntosh, Web Design)

Projects

"Primary Care and Self-Help Intervention for Teen Smokers"
Principal Investigator: Deborah J. Ossip-Klein, Ph.D.
Agency: National Cancer Institute

"Retargeting Mid-Life and Older Smokers"
Principal Investigator: Deborah J. Ossip-Klein, Ph.D.
Agency: National Cancer Institute

"'GottaQuit' Adolescent Smoking Intervention Campaign"
Partnership with Monroe County

"Smoking Attitudes, Beliefs, and Readiness to Change Among Nursing Home Patients and Staff" Mentor: D. J. Ossip-Klein, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow and Faculty in Residence Project)