Department of Health Behavior
UAB School of Public Health

James M. Raczynski, Ph.D.
Professor and Director

EDUCATION

Williams College, Williamstown, MA B.A. 1972 Psychology

Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA M.S. 1978 Clin.Psy.

Pennsylvania State Univ.,Univ. Park, PA Ph.D. 1980 Clin.Psy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1981   Residency/Internship University of Mississippi Medical Center/VA Consortium
1981-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences, University of Alabama at  Birmingham (UAB)
1982-1992 Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, UAB
1985-1988 Assistant Professor, Division of General and Preventive Medicine, UAB
1985-Present Associate Scholar, Center of Aging, UAB
1986-Present Chief, Behavioral Medicine Unit, Division of Preventive Medicine, UAB
1986-Present Associate Scholar, Center for Health Risk Assessment and Disease Prevention, UAB
1988-Present  Associate Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, UAB
1988-Present Associate Scientist, Injury Prevention Research Center, UAB
1989-Present Scientist, Comprehensive Cancer Center, UAB
1992-Present  Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, UAB
1993-Present  Director, UAB Center for Health Promotion and Disese Prevention
1993-Present  Co-Director, Alabama Consortium for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
1995-Present Professor, Division of General and Preventive Medicine, UAB

RESEARCH:

1984-Present Coronary Artery Disease in Young Adults (CARDIA), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,   Investigator (11/90-Present)
1984-1991 Continuation of Trial of Antihypertensive Interventions and Management (CO-TAIM), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Investigator
1986-1987 American Heart Association, Principal Investigator
1986-1996 Trial of Hypertension Prevention, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Co-Principal Investigator,   Intervention Sub-Committee Chair (1992-1996)
1987-1991 Health Care Seeking Among Blacks for CHD, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Principal Investigator
1988-1992   Physicians' Role in Lowering Elevated Lipids by Diet, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Principal  Investigator
1988-1991 Cooperative Agreement for Risk Reduction through Physical Activity Within Minority Populations, Centers for Disease Control, Principal Investigator
1990-1993 Comparative Substance Abuse Treatments for the Homeless, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol  Abuse, Co-Principal Investigator
1990-1993  Lipid Variability: Influence of Stress, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Investigator (3/91-Present, Principal Investigator)1992-Present Low Birthweight Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT), Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Investigator and Dissemination Core Director
1992-1994  Women's Health Trial: Feasibility Study in Minorities Populations-Clinical Centers. National Cancer Institute, Co-Principal Investigator
1992-1994 Clinical Units for the Psychophysiological Investigations of Myocardial Ischemia (PIMI), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Principal Investigator
1993-Present Vanguard Centers for the Clinical Trial & Observational Study of the Women's Health Initiative, National  Institutes of Health, Co-Principal Investigator
1993-1998 5-a-Day for Better Health, National Cancer Institute, Co-Principal Investigator
1993-Present  UAB Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  Principal Investigator/Center Director
1993-Present  Substance Abuse Awareness Intervention for Community Obstetric Practices, National Institute on Drug  Abuse, Investigator
1994-Present  Community Intervention to Reduce MI Delay, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Principal Investigator
1995-1997 Smoke-Free Families Dissemination Demonstration Project, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Principal  Investigator.
1995-Present   Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease, National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, Principal   Investigator

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Raczynski JM, Lewis CE: Reconciling the multiple scientific and community needs. Proceedings of the Workshop in Health Behavior Research in Minority Population: Access, Design, and Implementation of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (NIH Publication No 92-2965), 1993.

Lewis CE, Raczynski JM, Heath GW, Levinson R, Cutter GR . Physical activity in a low income minority population. Am J Public Health 1993;83:1016-1020.

Lewis CE, Raczynski JM, Heath GW, Levinson R, Hilyer JC, Cutter GR. Promoting physical activity in low-income African-American communities: The PARR Project. Ethnicity & Disease 1993.3:106-118.

Raczynski JM, Taylor H, Rappaport N, Cutter G, Hardin M, Oberman A: Diagnoses, Acute Symptoms and Attributions for Symptoms Among Black and White Inpatients Admitted for Coronary Heart Disease: Findings of the Birmingham-BHS Project. AJPH 1994;84:951-956.

Raczynski JM., Taylor H, Cutter G, Hardin M, Rappaport N, Oberman A. Rose Questionnaire Responses Among Black and White Inpatients Admitted for Coronary Heart Disease: Findings from the Birmingham-BHS Project. Ethnicity & Disease 1994;3:290-301.

Oberman A, Raczynski JM: Lifestyle modifications. In Taubert KA, Izzo JL, Black HR (Eds), Hypertension Primer. Dallas, Texas: American Heart Association, 288-291, 1993.

Hoegerman GS, Schumacher JE, Phelan ST, Engle M, Raczynski JM: Perceptions of Substance Use by Community Obstetricians. Substance Abuse 1993;14:89-96.

Raczynski JM, Schumacher JE, Milby JB, Michael M, Engle M, Lerner M, Woolley T: Comparing two substance abuse treatments for the homeless: The Birmingham Project. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 1993;10:217-233. Also published in Conrad KJ, Hultman CI, Lyons JS (Eds.) Treatment of the Chemically Dependent Homeless: Theory and Implementation in Fourteen American Projects (pp. 217-233). New York: The Haworth Press.

Lee JY, Oberman A, Fletcher GF, Raczynski JM, Fletcher BJ, Nanda NC, Jensen BE. Design of the Training Levels Comparison Trial. Controlled Clinical Trials 1994;15:59-76.

Schumacher JE, Milby JB, Raczynski JM, Engle M, Caldwell E, Carr J. Demoralization and threats to validity in Birmingham's Homeless Project. New Directions for Program Evaluation 1994;63:41-44.

Hoegerman GS, Lewis CE, Flack J, Raczynski JM, Caveny J, Gardin JM: Lack of association of recreational cocaine and alcohol use with left ventricular mass in young adults: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. J Ame College Cardiology 1995;25(4):895-900.

Lasser VI, Raczynski JM, Stevens V, Mattfeldt-Beman M. Kumanyika S, Evans M, Danielson E, Dalcin A, Batey D, Beldon LK, Brewer A for the TOHP Collaborative Research Group. Trials of Hypertension, Phase II: Structure and content of the weight loss and dietary sodium reduction intervention. Annals of Epidemiology 1995;5:156-164.

Lewis CE, Caan B, Funkhouser E, Hilner J, Bragg C, Dyer A, Raczynski JM, Savage P, Armstrong MA, Friedman GD: Inconsistent associations of caffeine containing beverages, blood pressure and lipoproteins: The CARDIA Study. Am J Epi (In press).

Lewis CE, Funkhouser E, Raczynski JM, Sidney S, Bild DE, Howard BV. Adverse effect of pregnancy on high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in young adult women. The CARDIA Study. Am J Epidemiology 1996;144:247-254.

Bowen D, Clifford CK, Coates R, Evans M, Feng Z, Fouad M, George V, Gerace T, Grizzle JE, Hall WD, Hearn M, Henderson M, Kestin M, Kristal A, Leary ET, Lewis CE, Oberman A, Prentice R, Raczynski JM, Toviola B, Urban N. The Women's Health Trial Feasibility Study in Minority Populations: Design and baseline descriptions. Ann Epidemiology 1996;6:507-19.

Reynolds KD, Raczynski JM, Binkley D, Franklin FA, Duvall RC, DeVane-Hart K, Harrington KF, Daldwell E, Jester P, Bragg C, Fouad M. Design of "High 5": A school-based cancer education study to promote fruit and vegetable consumption. J School Health, in press.

 

 

 

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