Elyse Park, PhD

Dr. Park is a professor of psychiatry at Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and director of the Health Promotion and Resiliency Intervention Research Program at the Mongan Institute at MGH. She directs the behavioral research for the MGH Tobacco Research & Treatment Center and the MGH Cancer Survivorship Program. Her clinical work focuses on cancer survivorship. She has utilized national cohorts to examine tobacco treatment among survivors, specifically, the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance (CanCORS) Consortium, and the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) cohort. As recipient an NCI K24 mentoring award recipient to promote patient-oriented research, she conducts her research, and mentors junior medicine trainees and faculty, on the integration of behavioral interventions into cancer clinical care. She recently published, in JAMA, the findings of a randomized clinical trial which demonstrated the efficacy of a sustained counseling and medication intervention in helping recently diagnosed cancer patients to quit smoking. She is currently conducting two NCI-funded R01 effectiveness-implementation trials integrating telehealth-delivered tobacco treatments into patients’ care during cancer screening and at the time of a cancer diagnosis.