Welcome
 Carolyn M.
Tucker, Ph.D. is the
Florida Blue Endowed Chair in Health Disparities
Research at the University of Florida (UF) and the
Richard and Thelma O. C. Barney Endowed Term Professor
of Health Disparities in the UF College of Medicine
(2008-present). She also is a Distinguished Alumni
Professor, Professor of Psychology, Professor of
Community Health and Family Medicine, Affiliate
Professor of Pediatrics, Research Foundation Professor,
and a Fellow in the American Psychological Association.
She is the Director of the UF Health Disparities
Research and Intervention Program and is a member of the
Editorial Board for the Journal of the National Medical
Association. She is nationally known as the founder of
the evidence-based Health-Smart Behavior Program to
modify and prevent obesity, which is being used
nationally in community centers, YMCAs, churches, and
health care sites.
Dr. Tucker has 30 years of experience
conducting culturally sensitive community-participatory
health promotion and health care research in
racial/ethnic minority and low-income communities. Her
research has resulted in effective tools and strategies
for empowering people to modify and prevent
overweight/obesity and engage in general health
promoting behaviors "under whatever conditions that
exist in their lives." Her grant-funded projects include
the Family Health Self-Empowerment Program and the
Health-Smart Church Program, and her grants total over
$10 million dollars. She has 85 published refereed
journal articles and numerous other publications,
including one book. Currently, she is on the Editorial
Review Board for the Journal of the National Medical
Association and serves as a reviewer for several other
journals.
Dr. Tucker is the recipient of numerous
awards and honors. However, she is most proud of the
fact that under her mentorship, 42 doctoral students
have received their Ph.D. degrees (42% of whom are
racial/ethnic minorities), and 40 graduate students have
received their Master's degrees (50% of whom are
racial/ethnic minorities). Dr. Tucker's doctoral
research mentoring record is the best at the University
of Florida.
Dr. Tucker received her B.S. degree in
Psychology from North Carolina A&T State University
(graduating summa cum laude), did her internship in
Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of
Florida, and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
She is a Fellow in the American Psychological
Association.
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