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Name: Colleen Doyle
Email: doyl0050@umn.edu
Summary
Dr. White is a board certified clinical health psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of South Florida and completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in primary care behavioral health in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, Dr. White worked as an integrated primary care psychologist at Hennepin Healthcare. Dr. White specializes in health psychology and behavioral medicine with clinical expertise in stress, anxiety, and the biopsychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. She also has a passion for health equity and social justice. Dr. White’s primary area of interest is in the overlap among health psychology, behavioral medicine, and environmental sustainability. Specifically, she is interested in taking an environmental justice perspective to promote equitable human and environmental co-benefit solutions, using her academic training as a stress researcher to guide her work.
PhD, University of South Florida
Adams, E. L. (Lead Author), Figueroa, R., White, K. E., Bell, B. M., Alegria, K., Yaroch, A. L. (2024). Prioritize “Food is Medicine” initiatives in the 2024 Farm Bill for human and planetary health. Translational Behavioral Medicine(ibad083). https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibad083,
Groer, M., Murphy, R., Bunnell, W., Salomon, K., Van Eepoel, J., Rankin, B., White, K. E., & Bykowski, C. A. (2010). Salivary measures of stress and immunity in police officers engaged in simulated critical incident scenarios. Journal of Occupational Medicine, 52(6), 595-602.,
Sacco, W.P., Bykowski, C. A., Mayhew, L., & White, K. E. (2012). Educational Attainment Moderates the Effect of a Brief Diabetes Intervention. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 95(1), 62-67. ,
Salomon, K., Bylsma, L. M., White, K. E., Panaite, V., & Rottenberg, J. (2013). Is blunted cardiovascular reactivity mood-state dependent? A comparison of Major Depressive Disorder, remitted depression and healthy controls. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 90(1), 50-57.,
Unrod, M., Gironda, R. J., Clark, M. E., White, K. E., Simmons, V. N., Sutton, S. K., & Brandon, T. H. (2014). Smoking behavior and motivation to quit among chronic pain patients initiating multidisciplinary pain treatment: A prospective study. Pain Medicine, 15(8), 1294-1303. ,
White, K. E., Mayhew, L. L., Sacco, W. A. (2015). Diabetes. Chapter in T. Hadjistavropoulos & H. D. Hadjistavropoulos (Eds). Fundamentals of Health Psychology.,
Doherty, T. J., Lykins, A. D., Piotrowski, N. A., Rogers, Z., Sebree Jr., D. D., & White, K. E. (2022). Clinical Psychology Responses to the Climate Crisis. Chapter in G. Asmundson (Ed). Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, 2nd Edition.,
*Nogueira, L. & *White, K. E., Bell, B., Alegria, K. E., Bennett, G., Edmondson, D., Epel, E., Holman, E. A., Kronish, I. M., & Thayer, J. (2022). The role of behavioral medicine in addressing climate change-related health inequities. Translational Behavioral Medicine. *Denotes co-first authorship,
Salomon, K., Beatty Moody, D. L., White, K. E., & Darden, T. M. (2022). Childhood Factors in Adult Risk for Cardiovascular Disease. Chapter in S. R. Waldstein, W. J. Kop, E. C. Suarez, W. R. Lovallo, & L. I. Katzel (Eds). Handbook of Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine.,
Pearson, A. R., White, K. E., Nogueira, L. M., Lewis, N. A., Green, D. J., Schuldt, J. P., & Edmondson, D. (2023). Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science. The American psychologist, 78(2), 244–258. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001074,
Mezuk, B., Sin, N. L., Stanton, M. V., Szabo, Y. Z., Tomiyama, A. J., & White, K. E. (2023). The American Psychosomatic Society Antiracism Task Force: Implementation, Activities, and Lessons Learned. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85(6):p 466-473. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001222,
Nogueira, L. M. & White, K. E. (2023). Environmental Justice, Equity, and Cancer. Chapter in Bernicker, E. H. (ed) Environmental Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33750-5_9.,
Outstanding Early Career Psychologist Award, Minnesota Psychological Association, 2019
Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate
Society for Health Psychology (APA Division 38)
Society for Environmental Population & Conservation Psychology (APA Division 34)
Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12)
Minnesota Psychological Association
Society of Behavioral Medicine
American Psychosomatic Society
American Psychological Association
Stress reduction, anxiety management, health promotion and disease prevention, inflammatory illness, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, physical and mental health impacts of climate change, and health benefits of climate solutions