Dr. Sherry L. Pagoto, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Fellowship Training
Director in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine in the Department of
Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is a licensed clinical
psychologist and a staff clinician in the UMass Weight Center. Her clinical work in the
Weight Center informs her program of research which focuses on psychological and physical
health co-morbidities. She currently has an R01 from the NIMH for a randomized clinical
trial comparing two behavioral approaches to weight loss for women with clinical
depression. She completed an NHLBI career development award on emotional eating, and has
received 5 private foundation grants (Boston Obesity and Nutrition Research Center,
American Cancer Society, Worcester Foundation of Biomedical Research, University of
Massachusetts Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Project Program, Healey
Foundation). She is also actively involved in skin cancer prevention research and has
completed 2 large randomized trials in this area. She teaches courses on Team Science and
Randomized Clinical Trials in the Master’s of Clinical Investigation and Clinical and
Population Health Research Doctoral Programs, respectively. She was also the recipient of
the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Early Career/Young Investigator Award in 2006 and is
currently a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
Articles
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Randomized controlled trial of behavioral treatment for comorbid obesity and depression in women: the Be Active Trial (with Kristin L. Schneider, Matthew C. Whited, Jessica L. Oleski, Philip A. Merriam, Bradley M. Appelhans, Y Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, Molly E. Waring, A. M. Busch, Stephenie C. Lemon, Ira S. Ockene, and Sybil L. Crawford), International journal of obesity (2005) (2013)
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Can Attention Control Conditions Have Detrimental Effects on Behavioral Medicine Randomized Trials (with Mary McGrae McDermott, George W. Reed, Philip Greenland, Kathleen M. Mazor, Judith K. Ockene, 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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Fluoxetine, Smoking, and History of Major Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial (with Bonnie Spring, Neal Doran, Dennis E. McChargue, Jessica Werth Cook, Katherine Bailey, John Crayton, and Donald Hedecker), Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology (2007)
