Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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NAME
POSITION TITLE
Fisher, Edwin B.
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
Professor and Chair, Health Behavior & Health
Education
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
DEGREE
(if applicable)
YEAR(s)
B.A.
1968
Psychology
Ph.D.
1972
Clinical Psychology
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
State University of New York, Stony Brook
FIELD OF STUDY
A. Positions and Honors.
Positions and Employment
1972 - 2005
Professor (Associate Professor, 1978-92; Assistant Professor, 1972-78), Department of
Psychology, Washington University.
1980 - 2005
Research Professor of Medicine (Research Assistant Professor, 1980-92; Research
Associate Professor, 1992-94), Washington University School of Medicine.
1980 - 2005
Associate Director for Prevention & Control Research, Diabetes Research and Training
Center, Washington University School of Medicine.
1985 - 2005
Director, Division of Health Behavior Research, Washington University School of Medicine.
1995 - 2005
Associate Director for Prevention & Control Research, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center,
Barnes-Jewish Hospital & Washington University School of Medicine.
1998 - 2005
Research Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine.
2005 – present Professor and Chair, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public
Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
1980 - 1984
Member, Pulmonary Diseases Advisory Committee, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
1985 - 1987
National Advisory Committee, Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, Department of
Health and Human Services.
1990 - 1995
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington: Member, External Advisory
Committee, Cancer Prevention Research Program.
1982 - present American Lung Association: Chair, Smoking and Health Committee (1982-87); Board of
Directors (1982-90); Executive Committee (1987-90); National Council (1990-94); Technical
Advisory Committee on Asthma (1990-1995); American Lung Association of Eastern
Missouri, Board of Directors (1979-present); Chair, Smoking and Health Committee (198286); President (1988-90); Assistant Treasurer (1993-present).
2000 - present Society of Behavioral Medicine: Secretary/Treasurer (2000–05); President Elect (2005-06);
President (2006-07).
2002 - present Director, National Program Office for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative for SelfManagement and Community Support Programs in Diabetes Care.
Honors
Phi Beta Kappa; Society of the Sigma XI; NIMH pre-doctoral research fellow, 1969-72; National Program
Director, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative, May, 2002.
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (from over 120 publications).
Fisher, E. B., Jr., Lichtensetin, E., Haire-Joshu, D., Morgan, G., & Rehberg, H. R. (1993). Methods,
successes, and failures of smoking cessation programs. Annual Review of Medicine, 44, 481-513.
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Fisher, E. B., Jr., Heins, J. M., Hiss, R. G., Lorenz, R. A., Marrero, D. G., McNabb, W. L., Wylie-Rosett, J., &
Garfield, S. A. (1994). Metabolic control matters: Nationwide translation of the Diabetes Control and
Complications Trial: Analysis and recommendations (NIH Publication No. 94-3773). Bethesda: NIDDK.
Fisher, E. B., Jr. (1995). Editorial: The results of the COMMIT Trial. American Journal of Public Health, 85(2),
159-160.
Fisher, E. B., Jr. (1996). A behavioral-economic perspective on the influence of social support on cigarette
smoking. In L. Green & J. H. Kagel ( Eds.), Advances in behavioral economics: Vol. 3. Substance use and
abuse. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Fisher, E. B., Jr. (1996). Prediction, causation, description, and natural history of smoking cessation.
Commentary on Farkas et al.’s “Addiction versus stages of change models in predicting smoking cessation.”
Addiction, 91, 1285-1287.
Fisher, E. B., Arfken, C. L., Heins, J. M., Houston, C. A., Jeffe, D. B., & Sykes, R. K. (1997). Acceptance of
diabetes regimens in adults. In D.S. Gochman (Ed.), Handbook of health behavior research II: Provider
determinants. NY: Plenum.
Fisher, E. B., La Greca, A. M., Greco, P., Arfken, C., & Schneiderman, N. (1997). Directive and nondirective
social support in diabetes management. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 4, 131-144.
Fisher, E. B., Jr. (1997). Two approaches to social support in smoking cessation: Commodity Model and
Nondirective Support. Addictive Behaviors, 22, 819-833.
Fisher, E. B., Jr., Auslander, W. F., Munro, J. F., Arfken, C. L., Brownson, R. C., & Owens, N. W. (1998).
Neighbors for a smoke free north side: Evaluation of a community organization approach to promoting smoking
cessation among African Americans. American Journal of Public Health, 88, 1658-1663.
Glasgow, R. E., Fisher, E. B., Anderson, B. J., La Greca, A., Marrero, D., Johnson, S. B., Rubin, R. R., Cox, D. J.
(1999). Behavioral science in diabetes: Contributions and opportunities. Diabetes Care, 22, 832-843.
Green, L. & Fisher, E. B. (2000). Economic substitutability: Some implications for health behavior. In. W. K.
Bickel & R. E. Vuchinich (Eds.), Reframing health behavior change with behavioral economics. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Fisher, E. B., Walker, E. A., Bostrom, A., Fischhoff, B., Haire-Joshu, D., & Johnson, S. B. (2002). Behavioral
science research in prevention of diabetes: Status and opportunities. Diabetes Care, 25, 599-606.
Chen, E., Fisher, E. B., Bloomberg, G. R., & Strunk, R. C. (2003). Predictors of repeat hospitalizations in children
with asthma: The role of psychosocial and socioenvironmental factors. Health Psychology, 22, 12-18.
Fisher, E. B., Brownson, R. C., Eyler, A. A., Haire-Joshu, D. L., & Schootman, M. (2003). Interventions to
Promote Key Behaviors in Cancer Prevention & Early Detection. Background paper for S. J. Curry, T. Byers, &
M. Hewitt (Eds.), Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection. Nat’l Cancer Policy Board,
National Academies Press.
Wright, R. J. & Fisher, E. B. (2003). Putting Asthma into Context: Community Influences on Risk, Behavior, and
Intervention. In I. Kawachi & L. F. Berkman (Eds.), Neighborhoods and Health. New York: Oxford.
Fisher, E. B., Strunk, R. C., Sussman, L. K., Sykes, R. K., & Walker, M. S. (2004). Community organization to
reduce the need for acute care for asthma among African American children in low-income neighborhoods:
The Neighborhood Asthma Coalition. Pediatrics, 114, 116-123.
Fisher, E. B., Brownson, R. C., Heath, A. C., Luke, D. A., & Sumner, W. II (2004). Cigarette smoking. In T. J.
Boll, J. Raczynski, & L. Leviton (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology, Vol. 2., pp. 75-120.
Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Heckman, B. D., Fisher, E. B., Monsees, B., Merbaum, M., Ristvedt, S., & Bishop, C. (2004). Coping and
anxiety in women recalled for additional diagnostic procedures following an abnormal screening mammogram.
Health Psychology, 23, 42-48.
Gabriele, J. M., Walker, M. S., Gill, D. L., Harber, K. D., & Fisher, E. B. (2005). Differentiated roles of social
encouragement and social constraint on physical activity behavior. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 29, 210-215.
Fisher, E., Musick, J., Scott, C., Miller, J. P., Gram, R., Richardson, V., Clark, J., & Pachalla, V. (2005).
Improving clinic- and neighborhood-based smoking cessation services within federally qualified health centers
serving low-income, minority neighborhoods. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 7, S45-S56.
Fisher, E. B., Brownson, C. A., O’Toole, M. L., Shetty, G., Anwuri, V. V., & Glasgow, R. E. (2005). Ecologic
approaches to self management: The case of diabetes. American Journal of Public Health, 95 (9), 1523-1525.
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C. Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (PI: Brownson, C.)
5/1/02  4/30/07
National Program Office for National Diabetes Initiative
for Self Management and Community Programs for Prevention and Care
This project coordinates and provides intellectual leadership to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's
National Diabetes Initiative, including 14 grants addressing self management of diabetes in primary care and
and community settings.
Role: National Program Director
RO1 CA 085920-01A1 (PI: Walker, M.)
9/30/00  2/28/06
NIH/NCI
Predictors of Relapse to Smoking in Lung Cancer
The goal of this study is to identify factors to guide improvements in interventions for maintenance of smoking
cessation among patients with lung cancer. This information will then be used to tailor smoking cessation
programs to the particular needs of the patients.
Role: Co-PI
R01 DP000098 (PI: Walker, M.)
9/30/04  9/29/07
CDC
Worksite Phone Counseling for Smoking Cessation
This study will: evaluate the Efficacy/Effectiveness of a Flexible Nondirective Intervention for telephone
counseling versus Standardized Intervention in promoting abstinence from smoking at 6 and 12 months following
enrollment; evaluate the effect of job category (Low Income, Professional, Other) on abstinence from smoking at
6 and 12 months following enrollment; and evaluate the interaction of telephone counseling (Flexible
Nondirective vs. Standardized) and job category (Low Income, Professional, Other) on abstinence from smoking
at 6 and 12 months following enrollment.
Role: Co-PI
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