Tené T. Lewis, PhD

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

1996	B.A. (with distinction)	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Psychology
1998	M.A.	University of California, Los Angeles, Clinical Psychology
2003	Ph.D.	University of California, Los Angeles, Clinical Psychology

Positions

1996-2001	Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, Social Behavioral Division, University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center
1997-2001	Therapist, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
1998	RAND Graduate Student Intern, Santa Monica, CA
1998-1999	Therapist, Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1999-2001	Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University California, Los Angeles
2001-2002	Psychology Intern, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Medical Center
2003-2005	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
2005-2006	Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
2006-	Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Professional Memberships

2000-	Member, American Psychological Association, Division 38 (Health Psychology)
2003 -	Member, American Psychosomatic Society
2003 -	Member, American Psychological Association
2005-	Member, American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention
2005	Member, Program Committee, American Psychosomatic Society
2005-	Member, Minorities Committee, AHA Council on Epidemiology and Prevention

Honors

1990	Martin Luther King Scholarship, University of Michigan
1990-1994	Michigan Competitive Scholarship, State of Michigan
1990-1994	Scholar Recognition Scholarship, University of Michigan
1991-1994	Class Honors, University of Michigan
19,921,993	James B. Angell Award, University of Michigan
1994	NIH Fogarty International Center Summer Training Fellowship, Beijing, China
1994-1995	College of Literature, Science and Arts Scholarship, University of Michigan
1996	Bachelor of Arts with Distinction and Honors in Psychology, University of Michigan
1996-1998	American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship
1996-2000	Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
1998	American Psychological Association Division 35 Graduate Student Research Paper Award
1999	RA/Mentorship Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1999	Summer Research Mentorship Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1998-2000	NRSA/NIMH Health Psychology Training Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2001	Graduate Division HIV/AIDS Research Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2001-2002	Institute for American Cultures Dissertation Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
2004	Citation Poster Award, American Psychosomatic Society
2004	Scholar Award, American Psychosomatic Society
2004	NIH/NCMHD Health Disparities Scholar
2005	Practice-relevant Abstract Award, American Psychosomatic Society

Publications

• Lewis TT, Sherman MP  (1996).  Perceived cultural awareness and multicultural counseling skills in a peer counseling program.  Peers and Preventions:  A Journal of Undergraduate Peer Helping Research, 1(1), 23-27.
• Myers HF, Lewis TT, Parker-Dominguez T.  Stress, Coping & Minority Health:  Biopsychosocial perspectives on ethnic health disparities (2003).  In G. Bernal, J. Trimble, A.K. Burlew & Leong, F.T. (Eds), Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology.  California, Sage Publications, Inc.
• Lewis TT, Everson-Rose SA, Sternfeld B, Karavolos K, Wesley D, Powell LH.  (2005).  Race, Education and Weight Change in a Biracial Sample of Women at Midlife.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 165: 545-551.
• Everson-Rose SA, Lewis TT. (2005). Psychosocial factors and Cardiovascular Disease.  Annual Review of Public Health, 26:469-500
• Roux AV, Ranjit N, Powell LH, Jackson S, Lewis TT, Shea S, Wu C (2006).  Psychosocial Factors and Coronary Calcium in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.  Annals of Internal Medicine, 144 (11): 822-831. 
• Lewis TT, Everson-Rose SA, Powell LH, Matthews KA, Brown C, Sutton-Tyrell K, Jacobs EA, Wesley, D (2006).  Chronic Exposure to Everyday Discrimination and Coronary Artery Calcification in African-American Women:  The SWAN Heart Study.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 68(3): 362-368. 
• Everson-Rose SA, Lewis TT, Karavolos K, Matthews KA, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Powell LH (2006).  Levels of Hostility are Associated with Carotid Atherosclerosis in African-American and Caucasian Women: The SWAN Heart Study.  American Heart Journal, 152(5): 982e7-982e13.

Research Funding

Completed

A Longitudinal Study of the Menopause and Fat Patterning

RO1 HL67128 (L. Powell, PI)
4/1/03 to 6/30/06
NIH/NHLBI
Minority Supplement:  Race, Chronic Stress and Intra-abdominal fat (T. Lewis, PI)

The major goal of this Minority Supplement is to determine whether chronic stressors influence the development of intra-abdominal fat in menopausal women, and whether this association is stronger for African-American, compared to Caucasian women.