Deborah J. Ossip, Ph.D.

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Research: Behavioral medicine, health impact of lifestyle change with particular focus on cigarette smoking/tobacco use, obesity, physical activity, aging, child/adolescent health, outcomes measurement, community intervention, and global health.

Dr. Ossip directs the Smoking Research Program, which focuses on community based interventions and underserved populations. She is principal investigator on two NIH-funded projects. The first is a tobacco research and capacity building project in 6 economically disadvantaged communities in the Dominican Republic. The second is a US and Canadian project examining promotional strategies to engage underserved populations to call quitlines. She also directs a state-funded contract to deliver proactive telephone counseling and OTC nicotine replacement medications to Medicaid and uninsured smokers across New York State through the NYS Smokers' Quitline. Recent projects include a statewide trial of various combinations of mail and telephone interventions for mid-life and older smokers, a multi-county trial of primary care interventions for adolescent smoking, and a national survey of smoking attitudes, beliefs, and policies regarding smoking in nursing homes. Dr. Ossip is Member Delegate for North America for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, and is a member of various other local, state, national, and international committees, working groups, and advisory boards for tobacco prevention and control issues.

Current Appointments

• Associate Professor - Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)

Education
PhD Clinical Psychology	Univ of Pittsburgh	1981
MS Clinical Psychology	Univ of Pittsburgh	1978
BA Psychology	University of Miami	1975

Recent Journal Articles
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Dozier, A.M., Ossip-Klein, D.J., Diaz, S., Sierra, E., Quiñones, Z., Armstrong, L., Chin, N.P., McIntosh, S. "Health Care Providers in the Dominican Republic: Self-perceived role in smoking cessation". Evaluation and the Health Professions 32 (2009): 144-164.
Ossip, D.J., Abrams, S.M., Mahoney, M.C., Sall, D., & Cummings, K.M. "Adverse effects with the use of nicotine replacement therapy among quitline clients". Nicotine & Tobacco Research 11 (2009): 408-417.
Hall, N., Hipple, B., Friebely, J., Ossip, D.J. & Winickoff, J.P. "Addressing family smoking in child healthcare settings". Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management 16(8) (2009): 31-39.
Watt, C.A., Lassiter, J.W., Boyle, J.R., Kulak, J.A., & Ossip-Klein, D.J. "An examination of policies addressing resident smoking in nursing homes". Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 10 (2009): 258-263.
Ossip-Klein, D., Fisher, S., Quinones, Z., Sierra, E., Dozier, A., McIntosh, S., Guido, J., Winters, P., Diaz, O. & Armstrong, L. "Tobacco use in six economically disadvantaged commmunities in the Dominican Republic". Nicotine and Tobacco Research 10 (2008): 851-860 PMCID: PMC 2730378.