Nancy Frasure-smith
Emeritus Professor
Psychiatry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Frasure-Smith received a PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and completed an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in psychology at McGill University. She holds the rank of Professor of psychiatry at McGill with a cross-appointment at McGill’s Ingram School of Nursing. She is also an associated Professor (professeure associée) of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, a researcher at the Centre hôspitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), and Senior Research Associate at the Montreal Heart Institute. She is a past President of the American Psychosomatic Society. Her research program, carried out in conjunction with psychiatrists, cardiologists and nurses at McGill, the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute, has been concerned with assessing the importance of psychological and social variables in the development and prognosis of cardiovascular disease; exploring physiological and behavioural mechanisms linking psychological and social variables with cardiovascular disease; and developing and evaluating interventions to change the impact of psychological and social variables in cardiovascular disease. Along with her colleague, Dr. François Lespérance, Dr. Frasure-Smith is known internationally for bringing depression to the forefront of behavioural cardiology.
Research Interest
Social and behavioural science
Publications
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The impact of an emergency department nursing intervention on continuity of care, self-care capacities and psychological symptoms: secondary outcomes of a randomized controlled trial. Cossette S, Frasure-Smith N, Vadeboncoeur A, McCusker J, Guertin MC.
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Randomized controlled trial of a nursing intervention to reduce emergency department revisits. Cossette S, Vadeboncoeur A, Frasure-Smith N, McCusker J, Perreault D, Guertin MC.
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Chronic depression symptoms and salivary NOx are associated with retinal vascular dysregulation: The SABPA study. Malan L, Hamer M, von Känel R, Schlaich MP, Reimann M, Frasure-Smith N, Lambert GW, Vilser W, Harvey BH, Steyn F, Malan NT.
