Diane M. Becker
SC.D., M.P.H.
appointment)
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URRENT PPOINTMENTS
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Professor, Division of Internal Medicine,
The Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, (primary
Director, Center for Health Promotion
Division of Internal Medicine
Professor, Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University,
School of
Public Health, (joint appointment)
Adjunct Professor, Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI
ERSONAL
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The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Promotion
Curriculum Vitae
Diane M. Becker
MPH, ScD
1-4-2010
1830 East Monument Street - Suite 8028
Baltimore, Maryland 21287
Telephone: 410-***-**** Fax: 410-***-****
E-mail: *******@****.***
DUCATION AND RAINING
E T :
1984Sc.D. The Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Behavioral Sciences, Health Policy and Management
1979M.P.H The Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health
1978 B.S.N. The Johns Hopkins UniversityROFESSIONAL XPERIENCE
P E :
Academic:
1999-PresentProfessor, Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine
1991-1999Associate Professor, Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine
1987-1991Assistant Professor, Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine
1984-1987Instructor, Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine
Other:
1995-1996Health Policy Fellow Institute of Medicine, US Senate
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Office of Senator John Chaffee (R, RI)
(Chairman, Senate Finance Subcommittee on
(Medicaid and Low Income Families)
1993-1994Instructor St. Mary s Seminary and University
(part-time) Health Care and Religion
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Clinical:
Nursing Administration and Faculty Appointments
1974-1978Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Director,
Cardiac Care Units
1972-1974North Carolina Memorial Hospital
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDirector, Intensive Care Units
(Surgical, Medical, Pediatric, Burn Unit,
Cardiac Surgical, and Coronary Care Units)
1972-1974The Brompton Hospital
National Heart and Chest System
London, Great Britain
Head Nurse,
Cardiac Intensive Care Units
1970-1972The Johns Hopkins School of NursingInstructor,
Cardiac Surgery, General Surger
Head Nurse, General Surgery
1966-1968The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Staff Nurse, Surgical Intensive Care
1964-1966The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Charge Nurse, Medical, Surgical, ER, OR Units
Other Professional Experience:
1988-1996Director and Co-Founder, Heart, Body and Soul, Inc.
A community health partnership of
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Clergy
United for Renewal in East Baltimore.
(250 churches, 6 Community Prevention Centers)
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Publications
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Gudbjartsson DF, WaltersGB, Thorleifsson G, StefanssonH, HalldorssonBV, ZusmanovichP,
SulemP,
ThorlaciusS, GylfasonA, SteinbergS, HelgadottirA, IngasonA, SteinthorsdottirV,
OlafsdottirEJ, Olafsdottir
GH, JonssonT, Borch-JohnsenK, HansenT, AndersenG, JorgensenT, PedersenO, AbenKK,
WitjesJA,
SwinkelsDW, den HeijerM, FrankeB, VerbeekALM, BeckerDM, YanekLR, BeckerLC,
TryggvadottirL,
RafnarT, GulcherJ, KiemeneyLA, KongA, ThorsteinsdottirU, Stefansson K. Many sequence
variants
affecting diversity of adult human height. Nature Genetics. 2008.
Faraday N, Becker DM, Becker LC. Pharmacogenomics of platelet responsiveness to aspirin.
Pharmacogenomics, 8:1413-1425, 2007.
Vaidya D, Yanek LR, Moy TF, Pearson TA, Becker LC, Becker DM. Incidence of coronary
artery disease in
siblings of patients with premature coronary artery disease: 10 years of follow-up.
American Journal of
Cardiology, 100:1410-5, 2007.
Bekelman DB, Havranek EP, Becker DM, Kutner JS, Peterson PN, Wittstein IS, Gottlieb SH,
Yamashita TE,
Fairclough DL, Dy SM. Symptoms, depression, and quality of life in patients with heart
failure. Joural of
Cardiac Failure, 3
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MPH, ScD
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MPH, ScD
Lasater TM, Becker DM, Hill MN, Gans KM. Synthesis of findings and issues from religious-
based
cardiovascular disease prevention trials. Annals of Epidemiology, 7(S7): S46-53, 1997.
Roberts CA, Wilder LB, Jackson RT, Moy TF, Becker DM. Accuracy of self-measurement of
waist and hip
circumference in men and women. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 97(5): 534-
6, 1997.
Voorhees CC, Stillman FA, Swank RT, Becker DM. Cigarette sales to African-American and
white minors in
low-income areas of Baltimore. American Journal of Public Health, 87(4): 652-4, 1997.
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MPH, ScD
1-4-2010
Voorhees CC, Stillman FA, Yanek LR, Becker DM. Reducing cigarette sales to minors in an
urban setting:
issues and opportunities for merchant intervention. American Journal of Preventive
Medicine, 14: 138-142,
1997.
Kral BG, Becker LC, Blumenthal RS, Aversano T, Fleisher LA, Yook RM, Becker DM.
Exaggerated
reactivity to mental stress is associated with exercise-induced myocardial ischemia in an
asymptomatic high-
risk population. Circulation, 96: 4246-4253, 1997.
Blumenthal RS, Becker DM, Moy TF, Coresh J, Wilder LB, Becker LC. Exercise thallium
tomography
predicts future clinically manifest coronary heart disease in a high-risk asymptomatic
population. Circulation,
93(5): 915-23, 1996.
Voorhees CC, Stillman FA, Swank RT, Heagerty PJ, Levine DM, Becker DM. Heart, Body and
Soul: Impact
of church-based smoking cessation interventions on readiness to quit. Preventive
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Disorder I. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986. (monograph)
Pearson T, Becker DM. Screening Strategies for Lipid Disorders. A Practical Approach to
the Ptient
with a Lipid Disorder II. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986. (monograph)
Pearson T, Becker DM. Managing Lipid Disorders: Lifestyle Changes and Pharmacotherapy.
Approach to
the Patient with a Lipid Disorder III. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986.
(monograph)
Becker DM, Swank B. A Computerized Self-Assessment Smoking Profile. Baltimore, MD, The
Johns
Hopkins University, 1985. (Software)
EXTRAMURAL SPONSORSHIP
Current
R01 NR010021-01A1 (D. Becker) 9/29/07 5/31/12 4.2 calendar
NIH/NINR $393,663
Patient Navigators: Secondary Prevention in Underserved Coronary Diseas Patients
Role: Principal Investigator
R01 HL089474-01A1 (D. Becker) 7/2/08 4/30/13 4.8 calendar
NIH/NHLBI $484,523
Community Exercise and Metabolic Syndrome in Black Families
Role: Principal Investigator
R01 HL087698 (L. Becker) 3/5/07-2/28/2012 0.6 calendar
NIH /NHLBI $317,629
Genome-Wide Association of Platelet Phenotypes
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
1 R01 HL088215-01A1 (M. Province) 5/15/08 0 4/30/12 0.24 calendar
NIH/NHLBI $26,000
Genomic Scan for Atherosclerosis Pathway Genes in African Americans From FHS Scan
Role: Co-investigator
1R01 HL092165-01A1 (D. Vaidya) 4/1/09 3/21/2010 0.6 calendar
NIH/NHLBI $459,166
Genetic Determinants of Premature Vascular Dysfunction in Families
Role: Co-investigator
R01 NS062059-01A2 (P. Nyquist) 3/1/09 12/31/12 0.6 calendar
NIH $499,170
Occult Small Vessel Cerebrovascular Disease in High Risk Families
Role: Co-investigator
Previous Principal Investigator
:
2003-2005Principal Investigator, Centering Prayer in Congestive Heart Failure, supported
by a grant
from the National Institutes of Health, Center for Complementary and AlternativeMedicine
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2002-2006Principal Investigator, Nurse Model in Black Families at Risk for Heart
Disease,
supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of
Nursing Research R01
2002-2003Principal Investigator, Dissemination of Church-Based Cardiovascular Risk
Reduction in
Black Women, supported by a grant from The Center for Disease Control, National
Institutes of
Health
2001-2006Principal Investigator, The Johns Hopkins Sibling Study: Correlation of
Lipoprotein
Subclasses with Development of CAD, supported by a grant from Atherotech, Inc.
2000-2004Principal Investigator, Prayer in African American Women, supported by a grant
from the
National Institutes of Health, Center for Complementary and Alternative edicine
U-01 Center Grant
1998-2004Principal Investigator: Community-site Coronary Risk Control in Black Families,
supported
by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of
Health
R01
1998-2003Principal Investigator, Characterizing Nontraditional Cardiovascular Disease
Risk Factors in Tj
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[(High Risk African American Families: The Johns Hopkins Sibling Study
Supported by a National Institutes of Health General Clinical Research Center award.
2000-2003Principal Investigator, Adherence to Pharmacotherapy Among High Risk African
American
Families, Supported by an award from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
1998-2002Principal Investigator: Community-Site Coronary Risk Control in Black Families.
Supported by a grant from the N National Institute of Nursing Research, National
Institutes of
Health
1995-2000Principal Investigator: Culturally Integrated Health Promotion in Urban
Churches, supported
by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and The Office of Women s Health, Nationa
Institutes of Health
1992-1997Principal Investigator: Nutrition Education in Urban African Americans,
supported by a
grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health,
(Supplemented by support for a Minority Faculty Development Award, 1993)
1991-1997Principal Investigator: Behavioral Strategies to Reduce Coronary Risk Factors
in Families,
supported by a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes
of
Health
1989-1997Principal Investigator: Church-based Smoking Cessation in an Urban Black
Community,
supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National
Institutes of
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Health, (supplemented by a Minority Graduate Student Award)
1992-1995Principal Investigator: Neighborhood Health Worker Training Model, supported by
a grant
from the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission.
1989-1991Principal Investigator: A Trial of Educational Strategies to Improve
Cholesterol
Management Practices in Ambulatory Care Settings, supported by a grant from the National
Fund for Medical Education.
1988-1991Principal Investigator: Family and Community Heart Disease Prevention Program,
supported
by a Grant from the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission.
1989-1990Principal Investigator: Validation of Rapid Capillary Methods for Cholesterol
Screening-
Precision, Accuracy, Efficiency and Screening Topography, supported by grants from Abbott
Laboratories and Johnson and Johnson, Inc.
1988-1990Principal Inve