Janet Reis
Senior Research Scientist
College of Health Sciences Office of Research
Boise State University
United States of America
Biography
Janet Reis came to Boise State University as a Professor Emerita from the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her 23 years at the University of Illinois, she also worked with the School of Nursing and the Department of Community Health. She began her career as a National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, having completed her doctorate in Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY B). In the ten years of working in the Chicago area, she collaborated with the Chicago Department of Health on an evaluation of the Department’s Maternal and Child Health program funded by the Ford Foundation and Chicago foundations. Leaving Chicago to return to Western New York, she obtained a faculty position in SUNY B’s School of Nursing and then moved West again back to Illinois.
Research Interest
Dr. Reis’s research interests include health education interventions primarily for health disparity populations, clinical trial testing, HIV and safe sec strategies, substance abuse, minority health and health promotion. She has worked extensively with physicians in a community hospital based Family Medicine Residency program in the development of clinical research programs.
Publications
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Hardin PC, Reis J. Interactive multimedia software design: concepts, process, and evaluation. Health Education & Behavior. 1997 Feb;24(1):35-53.
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Trockel M, Williams SS, Reis J. Considerations for more effective social norms based alcohol education on campus: an analysis of different theoretical conceptualizations in predicting drinking among fraternity men. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2003 Jan;64(1):50-9.
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Orme JG, Reis J. Multiple regression with missing data. Journal of Social Service Research. 1991 Nov 19;15(1-2):61-91.
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Hedrick B, Pape TL, Heinemann AW, Ruddell JL, Reis J. Employment issues and assistive technology use for persons with spinal cord injury. Journal of rehabilitation research and development. 2006 Mar 1;43(2):185.
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Shah S, Gopal B, Reis J, Novak M. Hear today, gone tomorrow: An assessment of portable entertainment player use and hearing acuity in a community sample. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2009 Jan 1;22(1):17-23.
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Rhodes F, Fishbein M, Reis J. Using behavioral theory in computer-based health promotion and appraisal. Health Education & Behavior. 1997 Feb;24(1):20-34.
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Rhodes F, Fishbein M, Reis J. Using behavioral theory in computer-based health promotion and appraisal. Health Education & Behavior. 1997 Feb;24(1):20-34.
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Reis J. A comparison of young teenage, older teenage, and adult mothers on determinants of parenting. The Journal of psychology. 1989 Mar 1;123(2):141-51.
