Dr. Evans is a Behavioral Scientist in the Tobacco Control Research Branch within the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Evans received her B.A. in Psychology from the College of William and Mary (1992), and her M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2005) in Experimental Biopsychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Evans completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles (2007). Prior to graduate training, Dr. Evans was the Executive Director of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (1997-2000).
Within TCRB, Dr. Evans’ areas of research interest include bridging the critical disconnect between research and discovery and program delivery of evidence-based cancer control interventions, harm reduction, and smoke-free meetings.
Select Publications and Presentations:
Nides M, Leischow S, Sarna L, Evans SE. (2007). Maximizing smoking cessation in clinical practice: pharmacologic and behavioral interventions. Prev Cardiol. Spring;10(2 Suppl 1):23-30.
Evans SE, Blank M, Sams C, Weaver MF, Eissenberg T. (2006). Transdermal nicotine-induced tobacco abstinence symptom suppression: nicotine dose and smokers' gender. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. May;14(2):121-35.
Buchhalter AR, Acosta MC, Evans SE, Breland AB, Eissenberg T. (2005). Tobacco abstinence symptom suppression: the role played by the smoking-related stimuli that are delivered by denicotinized cigarettes. Addiction. Apr;100(4):550-9.
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