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Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Psychology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Ana-Maria Vranceanu is a clinical health psychologist, the David T. Rovee PhD and Joanne V Rovee Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, (HMS) and Founding Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is an expert in the development, testing and implementation of behavioral and lifestyle intervention for older adults, their caregivers, and dyads, using the NIH Stage Model and Science of Behavior Change frameworks. She works primarily with older adults with chronic pain and neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, and has a strong interest in dyads. To date she has developed 6 interventions (2 dyadic) which are in various stages of the NIH stage model.

Dr. Vranceanu has served as Principal Investigator (PI) for over 40 research grants (including 10 R01s) and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Vranceanu gets joy from mentoring and training junior investigators. Dr. Vranceanu has a mid-career mentoring award (NCCIH K24) focused on mentoring interdisciplinary trainees at MGH and nationally. She developed and runs a “K club” that includes 21 mentees from various disciplines who are either K awardees or in the process of preparing or submitting K awards.She co-leads the Lifespan Health Track of the APA approved Clinical Psychology Internship at MGH, a T32 and an R25 in behavioral intervention development in aging and serious illness, a Roybal Center for Dyadic Interventions in Dementia, and a the Research and Education Core of the MGH Dementia Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR).

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