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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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾. She holds the rank of Professor of psychiatry at Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ with a cross-appointment at Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾â€™s Ingram School of Nursing. She is also an associated Professor (professeure associée) of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, a researcher at the Centre hôspitalier de l’Université de Montréal (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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾, the Université de Montréal 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. François Lespérance, Dr. Frasure-Smith is known internationally for bringing depression to the forefront of behavioural cardiology.

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