Dr. Lori Pbert, Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Tobacco
Treatment Research and Training, and Associate Chief of the Division of Preventive and
Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Pbert’s
NIH-funded program of research focuses on the prevention and treatment of tobacco and
obesity, integrating health behavior change interventions into routine health care
practice and organizations. To this end she works with health care providers to design,
implement and evaluate behavior change interventions that are feasible to deliver in real
world settings. A particular area of interest is adolescent health risk behavior change
in pediatric primary care and school health settings. She is a founding member of the
American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research Tobacco Consortium, which
translates the results of tobacco prevention and treatment research into practice-based
interventions for children and adolescents.

Featured Publications

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Implementing State Tobacco Treatment Services: Lessons From the Massachusetts Experience (with Jane G. Zapka, Denise Jolicoeur, Mary Jo White, Karin V. Goins, George W. Reed, and Judith K. Ockene), Health promotion practice (2011)
 

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Effect of a pediatric practice-based smoking prevention and cessation intervention for adolescents: a randomized, controlled trial (with Alan J. Flint, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Martin H. Young, Susan Druker, and Joseph R. DiFranza), Pediatrics (2008)
 

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An evaluation of tobacco treatment specialist counseling performance using standardized patient interviews (with Denise Jolicoeur, George W. Reed, and Wendy L. Gammon), Nicotine and tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2007)
 

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A school nurse-delivered adolescent smoking cessation intervention: a randomized controlled trial (with Stavroula K. Osganian, Diane Gorak, Susan Druker, George W. Reed, Katherine M. O'Neill, and Anne Sheetz), Preventive medicine (2006)
 

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Smoking prevention and cessation intervention delivery by pediatric providers, as assessed with patient exit interviews (with Kenneth E. Fletcher, Alan J. Flint, Martin H. Young, Susan Druker, and Joseph R. DiFranza), Pediatrics (2006)
 

Articles

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Development and validation of worksite weight-related social norms surveys (with Stephenie C. Lemon, Qin Liu, Robert P. Magner, and Kristin L. Schneider), American journal of health behavior (2013)
 

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Effect of mindfulness training on asthma quality of life and lung function: a randomised controlled trial (with J. Mark Madison, Susan Druker, Nicholas Olendzki, Robert P. Magner, George W. Reed, Jeroan J. Allison, and James F. Carmody), Thorax (2012)
 

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Exploratory research to design a school nurse-delivered intervention to treat adolescent overweight and obesity (with Lauren A. Gellar, Susan Druker, Stavroula K. Osganian, Mary Ann Gapinski, and Nancy R. LaPelle), Journal of nutrition education and behavior (2012)
 

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The Natural History and Diagnosis of Nicotine Addiction (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Robert J. Wellman, Robin J. Mermelstein, Jonathan D. Klein, James D. Sargent, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Harry A. Lando, Deborah J. Ossip-Klein, Karen M. Wilson, Sophie J. Balk, Bethany J. Hipple, Susanne E. Tanski, Alexander V. Prokhorov, Dana Best, and Jonathan P. Winickoff), Current Pediatric Review (2011)
 

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Enhancing the effect of telephone quitline counseling through proactive call-back counseling, Chest (2009)
 

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Contributions to Books

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Addressing Tobacco Use and Dependence (with Denise Jolicoeur, Beth M. Ewy, Judith K. Ockene, and David B. Abrams), Handbook of Health Behavior Change (2009)
 

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Stimulants and Related Drugs: Tobacco (with Judith K. Ockene), Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, Fourth Edition (TPD-IV) (2007)
 

Presentations and Posters

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A School Nurse-Delivered Intervention for Overweight and Obese Adolescents: Lessons Learned (with Stavroula K. Osganian, Kristin L. Schneider, Susan Druker, Robert P. Magner, George W. Reed, Lauren A. Gellar, Mary Ann Gapinski, and Anne Sheetz), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)
 

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The Impact of Worksite Weight-Related Social Norms on Associated Behaviors (with Stephenie C. Lemon, Qin Liu, Robert P. Magner, and Kristin L. Schneider), Obesity Society Annual Meeting (2011)
 

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The Social Context as a Determinant of Weight-Related Behaviors: Focus on Social Norms (with Stephenie C. Lemon), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2011)