Judith Prochaska
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
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Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 724-3608Alternate Contact Marci Palacios Email Tel Work 650-725-5465
Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Jarvik-Russell New Investigator Award, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2007)
- Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, NIDA's Division of Clinical Neuroscience & Behavioral Research (2009)
- Mentor of the Year, Bay Area Clinical Research Symposium (2011)
Professional Education
| BA: | Duke University, Psychology (1995) |
| MPH: | SDSU, Health Promotion (2001) |
| PhD: | UCSD/SDSU, Clinical Psychology (2002) |
Community and International Work
- Evaluating the efficacy of an integrated smoking cessation intervention for mental health patients, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
My research program focuses on developing effective treatments for tobacco dependence and other leading risk factors (e.g., sedentary behavior, obesity, stress and distress), with a focus on complex and multi-problem groups including people with serious mental illness, alcohol and drug problems, and heart disease, the unemployed, and homeless.
Publications
- Tobacco Use and Its Treatment Among Young People in Mental Health Settings: A Qualitative Analysis. Nicotine Tob Res. 2013
- Tobacco use among the job-seeking unemployed in California. Prev Med. 2013; (5): 329-32
- Medical students' attention to multiple risk behaviors: a standardized patient examination. J Gen Intern Med. 2012; (6): 700-7
- Risk of cardiovascular serious adverse events associated with varenicline use for tobacco cessation: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ. 2012: e2856
- Twitter=quitter? An analysis of Twitter quit smoking social networks. Tob Control. 2012; (4): 447-9
- An online survey of tobacco use, intentions to quit, and cessation strategies among people living with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2011 Aug-Sep; (5-6): 466-73
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