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Nancy Frasure-Smith

Academic title(s): 

Emeritus

Contact Information
Email address: 
nancy.frasure-smith [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
1033 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec
H1A 1A1

Degree(s): 

PhD

Areas of expertise: 

Social and behavioural science

Biography: 

Dr. Frasure-Smith received a PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and completed an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in psychology at 成人VR视频. She holds the rank of Professor of psychiatry at 成人VR视频 with a cross-appointment at 成人VR视频鈥檚 Ingram School of Nursing. She is also an associated Professor (professeure associ茅e) of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, a researcher at the Centre h么spitalier de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al (CHUM), and Senior Research Associate at the Montreal Heart Institute. She is a past President of the American Psychosomatic Society. Her research program, carried out in conjunction with psychiatrists, cardiologists and nurses at 成人VR视频, the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and the Montreal Heart Institute, has been concerned with assessing the importance of psychological and social variables in the development and prognosis of cardiovascular disease; exploring physiological and behavioural mechanisms linking psychological and social variables with cardiovascular disease; and developing and evaluating interventions to change the impact of psychological and social variables in cardiovascular disease. Along with her colleague, Dr. Fran莽ois Lesp茅rance, Dr. Frasure-Smith is known internationally for bringing depression to the forefront of behavioural cardiology.

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