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Adjunct Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Health Education, Teachers College (home department)
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| Dr. John Allegrante is an applied behavioral scientist and health education specialist whose research focuses on health behavior, disease self-management, and health outcomes in chronic disease.
He has had over two decades of continuous NIH support to develop and evaluate behavioral and educational programs designed to improve coping, communication, and control in patients with chronic disease.
Dr. Allegrante and his team of co-investigators were the first to demonstrate in a randomized controlled trial that an intervention program combining supervised fitness walking and socially supportive patient education could produce clinically meaningful improvements in functioning without exacerbating symptoms of pain or increasing use of medication in patients with knee osteoarthritis. He is currently the lead health education scientist and co-investigator on several NIH-funded projects, including the Translational Behavioral Science Research Consortium, a $7.5 million project funded by the NHLBI and based at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, that is developing and testing novel intervention strategies to support health behavior change among patients with chronic cardiopulmonary diseases who are at high risk for adverse outcomes; an NHLBI-funded trial of asthma patient education in the emergency room; and a Veterans Administration trial of behavioral intervention to improve hypertension control in veterans. Dr. Allegrante has produced an extensive bibliography of published work in health education and health promotion and in clinical epidemiology and health services research.
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