Elyse Park, PhD
Elyse Park, PhD
About Elyse Park, PhD
As a behavioral researcher, my area of excellence is designing and testing behavioral interventions for medical populations, with a primary focus on integrating systems-based behavioral interventions into oncology settings. I currently direct the behavioral research for the MGH Tobacco Research & Treatment Center, the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, and the MGH Cancer Survivorship Program. I also have expertise in developing and analyzing qualitative research to inform behavioral intervention and survey development and direct the Qualitative Research Unit for the MGH Division of Clinical Research. My clinical work focuses on cancer survivorship. Please see the links below for more information.
Mongan Institute for Health Policy
Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
Tobacco Research & Treatment Center
Clinical Interests:
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer treatment
- Cancer survivorship
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Psychiatry-Outpatient Department
One Bowdoin Street
7th Floor
Boston, MA 02114-2927
Phone: 617-643-7257
Phone: 617-724-6836
Fax: 617-724-4738
Medical Education
- PhD, Yeshiva University
- Fellowship, Brown University
- Fellowship, Miriam Hospital/Lifespan
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna Health Inc.
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Cigna Behavioral Health
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
- Humana/Choice Care PPO
- Maine Community Health Options (MCHO)
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- OSW - Maine
- OSW - New Hampshire
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Unicare
- United Behavioral Health
- United Behavioral Health - MGH
- Well Sense Pediatrics
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
I currently direct the behavioral research for the MGH Tobacco Research & Treatment Center, the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and the MGH Cancer Survivorship Program. The contributions of my skills are reflected in my collaborations, funding and over 200 peer-reviewed publications. I have led numerous externally funded research projects, most of which have involved applications of mixed methods research. An American Cancer Society training grant is supporting my research examining risk perceptions of individuals undergoing lung cancer screening. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, I examined the effect of depression and anxiety on postpartum relapse to smoking. I received a grant for the Livestrong Foundation to conduct a national survey among childhood cancer survivors to examine the quality of their health insurance coverage. I then conducted a multicenter RCT to compare the effectiveness of integrating an intensive counseling plus pharmacological intervention vs. a brief counseling intervention. With proven efficacy for the intensive treatment, I secured NCI funding to conduct an effectiveness implementation trial, bringing a Video-based tobacco intervention into NCI-affiliated community cancer centers nationwide. I received an NCI R01 and am conducting a study integrating a telehealth delivery tobacco treatment intervention Mass General Brigham-wide to patients undergoing lung screening. I received ACS funding to develop a patient navigator intervention to assist childhood survivors of adult cancers to obtain and utilize health insurance. At the Benson-Henry Institute of Mind-Body Medicine I developed an evidence-based resiliency treatment program that we are administering to a variety of patient and provider populations.
Publications
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