Tené Lewis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology,
Social and Behavioral Sciences Program
Professor Lewis’ primary area of research is in the area of psychosocial epidemiology, with an emphasis on cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. She has a particular interest in understanding how social and psychological factors contribute to the disproportionately high rates of CVD morbidity and mortality observed in African-American women compared to women of all other racial/ethnic groups. Professor Lewis is currently involved in research projects designed to examine how psychological factors such as depressive symptoms, hostility and/or experiences of discrimination relate to adverse CVD outcomes in African-American and Caucasian women.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
Selected Publications
Everson-Rose, S.A., Lewis, T.T., Karavolos, K., Matthews, K.A., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., and Powell, L.H. Levels of Hostility are Associated with Carotid Atherosclerosis in African-American and Caucasian Women: The SWAN Heart Study. American Heart Journal, in press.
Lewis, T.T., Everson-Rose, S.A., Powell, L.H., Matthews, K.A., Brown, C., Sutton-Tyrell, K., Jacobs, E.A., and Wesley, D. Chronic Exposure to Everyday Discrimination and Coronary Artery Calcification in African-American Women: The SWAN Heart Study. Psychosomatic Medicine 68(3): 362-368, 2006.
Roux, A.V., Ranjit, N., Powell, L.H., Jackson, S., Lewis, T.T., Shea, S., and Wu, C. Psychosocial Factors and Coronary Calcium in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Annals of Internal Medicine 144 (11): 822-831, 2006.
Lewis, T.T., Everson-Rose, S.A., Sternfeld, B., Karavolos, K., Wesley, D., and Powell, L.H. Race, Education, and Weight Change in a Biracial Sample of Women at Midlife. Archives of Internal Medicine 165: 545-551, 2005.
Everson-Rose, S.A. and Lewis, T.T. Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Diseases. Annual Review of Public Health 26: 469-500, 2005.
Myers, H.F., Lewis, T.T., and Parker-Dominguez, T. Stress, Coping and Minority Health: Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Ethnic Health Disparities. In: Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Bernal, G., Trimble, J., Burlew, A.K., and Leong, F.T. (Eds.), California: Sage Publications, Inc., 2003.
For a further list of Dr. Lewis’ publications, please see PubMed. |
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