Resource and Coordinating Center
The Resource and Coordinating Center (RCC) aims to provide strategic leadership, efficient coordination, inspired support, and pioneering dissemination of the innovative experimental medicine approaches that SOBC consortium scientists adopt to identify and validate measures, and engage novel behavior change targets.
Donald Edmondson, PhD
Principal Investigator
dee2109@cumc.columbia.edu
Columbia University Medical Center
Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health
New York, NY
Dr. Edmondson is an Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), and Director of the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health at CUMC. He is currently the director of Resource and Coordinating Center of the NIH Science of Behavior Change Program, which aims to identify and measure the underlying mechanisms of behavior change using an experimental medicine approach. His research on stress, health behaviors, and cardiovascular risk has been featured in the New York Times, ABC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, and other print and media outlets.
Jeffrey Birk, PhD
R21 Principal Investigator; U24 Co-Investigator
jlb2287@cumc.columbia.edu
Columbia University Medical Center
Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health
New York, NY
Dr. Birk is an Instructor in Medical Sciences at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health. Prior to this position he completed his doctoral training in experimental psychology at Tufts University and postdoctoral training at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research focuses on the influence of emotions and their regulation on cardiovascular health. One goal of this research, exemplified by this R21 SOBC project, is to investigate how negative emotions that arise due to serious medical conditions may reduce patients’ engagement in health behaviors. A second research goal concerns the health effects of different strategies for regulating emotion. For example, perseverative thinking involves ruminating about the past or worrying about the future and is generally regarded as a maladaptive regulatory strategy. Dr. Birk and colleagues investigate how the occurrence and duration of perseverative thoughts may contribute to heightened blood pressure by cognitively prolonging the stress response. A third research goal is to understand the behavioral and physiological pathways by which depression and post-traumatic stress disorder have adverse effects on long-term health outcomes.
Talea Cornelius, PhD
Co-Investigator
tmc2184@cumc.columbia.edu
Columbia University Medical Center
Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health
New York, NY
Dr. Cornelius conducts research focused on understanding health behaviors in the social context in which they are performed. In particular, her work explores processes of health-related power and influence, interdependence in change over time, and how partner support can both facilitate and/or undermine health-promoting behaviors. Recent projects include an examination of how the presence of close others (i.e., a spouse/partner, a child) in the Emergency Department (ED) impacts patients' ED experience, the effect of romantic partners on blood pressure both short and long term, and a qualitative study describing couples' experiences following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Dr. Cornelius is also exploring novel applications of dyadic analysis to interdependent, individual-level processes. As an RCC Co-Investigator, Dr. Cornelius oversees the scientific development of the Measures Repository and works with external scientists for Repository engagement and data processes.
Lisbeth Nielsen, PhD
NIH/NIA
Program Official
nielsenli@nia.nih.gov
Jonathan W. King, PhD
NIH/NIA
Project Scientist
kingjo@nia.nih.gov
Elaine Collier, MD
NIH/NCATS
Project Scientist
CollierE@mail.nih.gov
Melissa Riddle, PhD
NIH/NIDCR
Project Scientist
riddleme@nidcr.nih.gov
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