Welcome
Dr.
Carolyn M. Tucker is a licensed clinical
psychologist, a University of Florida Distinguished
Alumni Professor, a Research Foundation Professor, a
Professor of Psychology, a Professor of Community Health
and Family Medicine, and she holds an affiliate
appointment in the Department of Pediatrics. In
September 2008, she was named the Richard and Thelma O.
C. Barney Term Professor of Health Disparities in the
College of Medicine and charged with establishing a
comprehensive, interdisciplinary Health Disparities
Program at the University of Florida.
Having been
awarded numerous research and training grants totaling
nearly $5 million, Dr. Tucker has conducted foundational
research in the areas of (a) patient-centered culturally
sensitive health care assessment and intervention; (b)
health promotion and obesity/overweight modification
interventions for racial/ethnic minority and low-income
children, adolescents, adults, families, and
communities; and (c) children’s problem behaviors and
academic performance. She currently is the Principal
Investigator for two research projects: the Health-Smart Church Program (funded
by the Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida) and the Clinic Staff Health-Smart Behavior Program
(funded by the University of Florida’s College of
Medicine), and she recently completed the Family Health
Self-Empowerment Project (funded by the PepsiCo
Foundation) and the Patient-Defined Culturally Sensitive
Health Care and Health Promotion Project (funded by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).
Dr. Tucker has
authored or co-authored over 80 refereed journal
articles, as well as numerous papers, training manuals,
and assessment inventories. Four of her articles on
providing culturally sensitive health care (published in
The Counseling Psychologist in 2007) were recently
nominated for this top-tier journal’s 2007 Outstanding
Contribution Award. Dr. Tucker also has authored a book
titled African American Children: A Self-Empowerment
Approach to Modifying Behavior Problems and Preventing
Academic Failure, which is being used nationally in
teacher training programs and in psychology and
education courses at several universities.
For more information, please refer to Dr. Tucker's vitae. |
News
November 2009
Dr. Tucker will
attend a two-day meeting in Chicago, Illinois to serve as an Expert Panel member for the YMCA of the USA's Diversity
Health and Wellness Collaborative targeting African-Americans and
Hispanics/Latinos
December 2009
Dr. Tucker will participate in a Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida grantee conference entitled "Embrace a Healthy Florida"
Contact Department of Psychology University
of Florida P.O. Box 112250 Gainesville, FL
32611-2250 email: cmtucker@ufl.edu TEL: (352)
273-2167 FAX: (352) 392-7985
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