NIH/Alpert Medical School
Centers for Behavioral & Preventative Medicine
Research Training in Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine
Rena Wing, PhD, PI, Director
Bess Marcus, PhD, Co-Director
Justin Nash, PhD, Administrative Director
The primary goal of the Research Training Program in Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine is to train post-doctoral fellows to conduct research related to changing behavior to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Research training addresses behavioral cardiology and the most prominent lifestyle risk factors for CVD, cigarette smoking, adverse diet, obesity, and physical inactivity. Specifically, there are opportunities to learn to use multidisciplinary approaches to treat healthy and medically ill populations (e.g. individuals with diabetes; participants in cardiovascular rehabilitation programs), deliver services in unique settings (e.g., emergency departments, neonatal intensive care units, after cardiovascular procedures), and use innovative channels of delivery (Internet, telephone, print) to more efficiently disseminate interventions.
Training is highly individualized with all fellows developing excellent core competencies in areas such as CVD epidemiology, clinical trials related to behavioral risk factors, and research skills. Fellows will also develop a complementary set of specialized competencies specific to their area of research (i.e., tobacco use, obesity, physical activity, or behavioral cardiology). A formal curriculum includes both formal didactics (i.e., coursework and seminars) and mentored research experiences. The mentoring team will be headed by a senior behavioral scientist ; with a physician or population scientist and a junior faculty member as secondary mentors. Applicants with a wide variety of backgrounds are sought, including physicians and doctoral level behavioral, social, or public health scientists who are interested in research areas related to cardiovascular behavioral medicine, including weight control, physical activity, nicotine dependence, nutrition, genetics-environment interplay, and neuroimaging .
Senior Mentors:
Bock,Beth C. Ph.D.
Borrelli, Belinda Ph.D.
Jelalian, Elissa Ph.D.
Monti,Peter M., Ph.D.
Pinto, Bernardine M. Ph.D.
Rende, Richard Ph.D.
Rohsenow, Damaris J. Ph.D.
Mentors in Cardiology, Epidemiology, & Biostatistics
Bostom, Andrew, M.D.
Buxton, Alfred, M.D.
Clark, Melissa A., PhD
Eaton, Charles, M.D.
Goldstein, Michael, M.D.
McGarvey, Stephen, PhD, MPH
Millman, Richard, M.D.
Parisi, Alfred, M.D.
Smith, Robert., M.D
Tilkemeier, Peter, M.D.
Vivier, Patrick., M.D.
Williams, David, M.D.