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Paige McDonald, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been a program director in the Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch (BBRB) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 2001. In this role, she has cultivated the growth of BBRB’s biobehavioral research portfolio, which has focused on elucidating biological mechanisms of psychosocial effects on health and disease. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology form the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Her doctoral training included an emphasis on behavioral medicine and psychophysiology within the context of cardiovascular disease. Dr. McDonald completed her clinical psychology internship, with specialization in health psychology, at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium and postdoctoral fellowships at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Howard University Cancer Center (HUCC). In 2005, she received a Master of Public Health degree form Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to joining the NCI, Dr. McDonald was a research psychologist at HUCC and a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Howard University College of Medicine. Her research interests included stress and immunity within a cancer risk context, the influence of behavioral factors on breast cancer risk and survival, and the perceptions and knowledge of breast cancer and early detection behaviors among women residing in public housing. Dr. McDonald has served as acting chief of the BBRB since March 2006.
Select Publications and Presentations
Saab PG, Llabre MM, Schneiderman N, Hurwitz BE, McDonald PG, Evans J, Wohlgemuth W, Hayashi P, & Klein B. (1997). Influence of ethnicity and gender on cardiovascular responses to active coping and inhibitory-passive coping challenges. Psychosomatic Medicine, 59(4), 434-446.
McDonald PAG, Thorne DD, Pearson JC, & Adams-Campbell LL. (1999). Perceptions and knowledge of breast cancer among African American women residing in public housing. Ethnicity & Disease, 9(1), 81-93.
Green McDonald PA, Duckett E, Williams, R, & Adams-Campbell LL. (2002). Breast cancer survival in African-American women: Is alcohol consumption a prognostic indicator? Cancer Causes & Control, 13, 543-549.
Kline KA, Saab PG, Llabre MM, Spitzer SB, Evans JD, McDonald PAG, & Schneiderman N. (2002). Hemodynamic response patterns: Responder type differences in reactivity and recovery. Psychophysiology, 39, 739-746.
Stefanek M & McDonald PG (2003). Biological mechanisms of psychosocial effects on disease: Implications for cancer control. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 17(S1), S1-S4.
Hughes C, Peterson SK, Ramirez AG, Gallion KJ, McDonald PG, Skinner S, Bowen D. (2004). Minority recruitment in hereditary breast cancer research. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 13(7), 1146-55.
Stefanek M, McDonald PG, & Hess SA. (2005) Religion, spirituality and cancer: Current status and methodological challengeshttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=
pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15376283&query_hl=105. Psychooncology, 14 (6): 450-463.
Shavers VL, Fagan P, Lawrence D, McCaskill-Stevens W, McDonald P, Browne D, McLinden D, Christian ME, & Trimble E. Barriers to racial/ethnic minority application and competition for NIH research funding. JNMA (In press, 2005)
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