Faculty and Staff Announcements

Congratulations! The Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research @AcadBehavMedRes has awarded@DrGKPerez of @MGH_HPRIR with the 2024 Early-Stage Investigator Award. @MonganInstitute@MassGeneralNews@MGHMedicine pic.twitter.com/3PXrKh7elc — MGH Psychiatry (@MGHPsychiatry) January 26, 2024 Congratulations to @TinaLubertoPhd chlinical health psychologist @MGH_HPRIR who will be receiving the Society of Behavioral Medicine,@BehavioralMed, Cardiovascular Disease SIG Early Career Professional (ECP) Read more…

Many HPRIR faculty and staff were co-authors on a recently published article in Supportive Care in Cancer, titled “Do cancer curvivors and metavivors have distinct needs for stress management intervention? Retrospective analysis of a mind–body survivorship program.” Read the key findings here. Read the original published article here.

Home Base announces that Rachel Millstein, PhD has accepted the position of Clinical and Research Co-Director of Mind Body Health, and April Hirschberg, MD has accepted the position of Medical Co-Director of Mind Body Health! “Home Base Leadership is happy to announce that April Hirschberg, MD has accepted the position Read more…

Drs. Daniel Hall, Lucy Finkelstein-Fox, and Elyse Park are co-authors on an abstract accepted to the 21st International Vasculitis Workshop which will be held in Barcelona this April! Title: Validation of a Brief Measure of Uncertainty in Vasculitis and Other Rheumatic Disease Caleb Bolden, Claire Cook, Lucy Finkelstein-Fox, Xiaoqing Fu, Flavia V. Read more…

New publication! Improvements in health insurance literacy are seen in this RCT with adolescents and young adults with cancer. https://t.co/ibtFNIkfSB@annersck @PsycholERPark @DrGKPerez#AYA #healthinsurance #cancer #CancerResearch #RCT #financialtoxicity pic.twitter.com/gjTRSqDIsA — MGH HPRIR (@MGH_HPRIR) December 15, 2023 Publication alert! We examined the representation of race and ethnicity among cancer survivors in trials Read more…

The MGH Healthy Lifestyle Program recently hosted a webinar in which Dr. Hall addressed poor sleep and insomnia. The video includes information on CBT-I, stimulus control, sleep hygiene, relaxation training, resources and more.  Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maT3qsfFJH8

Daniel Hall, PhD, was featured on the Vasculitis Foundation’s Youtube Education Channel, speaking about Stress Management Tips for Vasculitis.   Watch it here: https://youtu.be/LNu1JalvZQs  

Congratulations Dr. Wang!

Esteban Barreto, PhD, was recently featured in the Daily Bulletin for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)! Read the piece here: Focus Groups on Health Equity Speak to Need For Change

Dr. Elyse Park was featured in a recent publication in The Lancet Oncology, providing commentary on the new recommendations made by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Find the article here: IASLC calls for clinical trials to use tobacco use data