Welcome
 Dr. Carolyn M. Tucker Ph.D.
is a Professor of Psychology, Professor of Community
Health and Family Medicine, and Affiliate Professor of
Pediatrics at the University of Florida (UF). She is
also the Richard and Thelma O. C. Barney Term Professor
of Health Disparities in the College of Medicine at UF,
the Director of the UF Health Disparities Research and
Intervention Program, a UF Research Foundation
Professor, and a UF Distinguished Alumni Professor. From
2005-2009, she was on the U.S. Health and Human Services
Advisory Committee on Minority Health. She is presently
on the Expert Panel for the YMCA of the USA's Diversity
Health and Wellness Collaborative.
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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News
The Motivators of and
Barriers to Health-Smart Behaviors Inventory has been
published in the journal Psychological
Assessment!
Reference: Tucker, C. M., Rice,K. G.,
Hou, W., Kaye, L. B., Nolan, S. E. M., Grandoit, D.
J.,...Desmond, F. F. (2011, March 28). Development of
the Motivators of and Barriers to Health-Smart Behaviors
Inventory. Psychological Assessment. Advance
online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0022299
Dr. Tucker’s
Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care Model
has been published in the journal Health
Psychology.
Tucker, C. M., Marsiske, M., Rice, K.
G., Nielson, J. J., & Herman,K. (2011).
Patient-centered culturally sensitive health care: Model
testing and refinement. Health Psychology,
30(3),342-350. doi: 10.1037/a0022967
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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