Dr. Judith K. Ockene, Ph.D., M.Ed., M.A., is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the
Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, and Associate Vice Provost for Gender and
Equity at UMass Medical School. Some of her research interests include the prevention and
management of chronic illness, women's health, the relationship of lifestyle
behaviors to disease, and patient-centered counseling. She has been the Principal
Investigator on numerous NIH studies including the national Women's Health
Initiative.

Articles

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Frequency of Private Spiritual Activity and Cardiovascular Risk in Post-menopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative (with Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, George Fitchett, Kathleen M. Hovey, Eliezer Schnall, Cynthia Thomson, Christopher A. Andrews, Sybil Crawford, Mary Jo O'Sullivan, Stephen Post, and Rowan T. Chlebowski), Annals of Epidemiology (2013)
 

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Can Attention Control Conditions Have Detrimental Effects on Behavioral Medicine Randomized Trials (with Sherry L. Pagoto, Mary McGrae McDermott, George W. Reed, Philip Greenland, Kathleen M. Mazor, Matthew C. Whited, Kristin L. Schneider, Bradley M. Appelhans, Katherine Leung, Philip A. Merriam, and Ira S. Ockene), Psychosomatic medicine (2012)
 

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Smoking Status, Physical Health-Related Quality of Life, and Mortality in Middle-Aged and Older Women (with Carole K. Holahan, Charles J. Holahan, Rebecca J. North, Rashelle B. Hayes, and Daniel A. Powers), Nicotine and tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2012)
 

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Depressive symptoms, antidepressant use, and future cognitive health in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (with Joseph S. Goveas, Patricia E. Hogan, Jane Morley Kotchen, Jordan W. Smoller, Natalie L. Denburg, JoAnn E. Manson, Aruna Tummala, W. Jerry Mysiw, Nancy F. Woods, Mark A. Espeland, and Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller), International psychogeriatrics / IPA (2012)
 

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Determinants of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Incidence of Diabetes in Postmenopausal Women in the U.S.: The Women's Health Initiative 1993-2009 (with Yunsheng Ma, James R. Hebert, JoAnn E. Manson, Raji Balasubramanian, Simin Liu, Michael J. Lamonte, Chloe E. Bird, Yongxia Qiao, Barbara C. Olendzki, Kristin L. Schneider, Milagros C. Rosal, Deidre M. Sepavich, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Marcia L. Stefanick, Lawrence S. Phillips, Ira S. Ockene, Robert C. Kaplan, Gloria E. Sarto, Lorena Garcia, and Barbara V. Howard), Diabetes care (2012)
 

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Contributions to Books

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

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Stimulants and Related Drugs: Tobacco (with Lori Pbert), Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, Fourth Edition (TPD-IV) (2007)