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Dr. Wendy Nelson, PhD, MPH
Program Director
Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Dr. Wendy Nelson has been a member of the Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch since October 1999. She received undergraduate degrees from Smith College and Duke University School of Nursing, a M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saint Louis University. Dr. Nelson completed a clinical psychology internship at Harvard University Medical School and postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University Medical School, where she specialized in consultation-liaison psychiatry, health psychology, and chemical dependence treatment.
Early in her career, Dr. Nelson worked in nursing and public health. Her public health career included an Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and several years as an epidemiologist in the Office of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, at the Food and Drug Administration. Prior to working at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Nelson was assistant professor at Northwestern University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she specialized in behavioral medicine and treatment of HIV-infected patients and families. In 1998, Dr. Nelson joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as a behavioral scientist in the Division of AIDS. In 1999, she was appointed program director at the National Cancer Institute and shortly thereafter developed the Basic and Applied Decision Making in Cancer Control initiative in an effort to bridge basic judgment and decision making science and applied cancer prevention and control research. Dr. Nelson’s research interests include basic judgment and decision making, medical decision making, the role of numeracy in health-related decision making, and decision support tool development.
Select Publications and Presentations
Friedberg M, Saffran B, Stinson TJ, Nelson W, Bennett CL: Evaluation of conflict of interest in economic analyses of new drugs used in oncology. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999, 282:1453-1457.
Stefanek M, Hartmann L, Nelson W: Risk-reduction mastectomy: Clinical issues and research needs. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2001, 93:1297-1306.
Stefanek M, Hess S, Nelson W. Behavioral and social science research at the National Institutes of Health. American Psychological Society Observer. 2005, 18:1.
Nelson W, Stefanek M, Peters E, McCaul K: Basic and applied decision making in cancer control. Health Psychology. 2005, 24(Suppl.):S3-S8.
McCaul K, Peters E, Nelson W, Stefanek M: Linking decision-making research and cancer prevention and control: Important themes. Health Psychology. 2005, 24(Suppl.):S106-S110.
Peters E, McCaul KD, Stefanek M, Nelson W: Understanding cancer risk perceptions: Contributions from judgment and decision-making research. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2006, 31:45-52.
Moser RP, McCaul K, Peters E, Nelson W, Marcus S: Associations of perceived risk and worry with cancer health-protective actions. Journal of Health Psychology. 2006, 12:1-13.
Nelson W, Han PKJ, Fagerlin A, Stefanek M, Ubel PA: Rethinking decision aids: A call for conceptual clarity. Medical Decision Making. 2007, 27:609-618.
Holmes-Rovner M, Nelson WL, Pignone M, Elwyn G, Rovner DR, O’Connor AM, Coulter A, Correa-de-AraujoR: Are Patient Decision Aids the Best Way to Improve Clinical Decision Making? Report of the IPDAS Symposium. Medical Decision Making. 2007, 27:599-608.
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