Justin M. Nash, PhD

   Associate Director, 
   Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine

   Director, Training and Education Programs
   Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine
   The Miriam Hospital

   Associate  Professor,
   Dept. of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
   Brown Medical School

Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine
Coro Building, Suite 500
One Hoppin Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Phone: (401) 793-8009 or (401) 793-4377
Email: Justin_Nash@Brown.edu
Fax:  (401) 793-8078

Justin Nash, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine.  He is an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Ohio University. He interned at the VA Medical Center in West Haven and completed postdoctoral work in the Pain Evaluation and Treatment Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.  In addition to being the Director of Training and Education Programs for the Centers, he is the coordinator of the Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine Track in the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium and is the training coordinator and co-investigator on the NCI funded R25T transdisciplinary cancer prevention and control training grant.  His research interests are in the areas of pain and headache and also in transdisciplinary training processes and outcome.  He administers the Headache Management Program at The Miriam Hospital. His research focuses on developing and evaluating cost-effective interventions for recurrent headache sufferers. 

Honors

• Board of Directors, State Representative (elected), New England Pain Association, 2002.
• Education and Training Committee, International Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2002.
• Education and Training Committee, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2001.
• Electronic Media Committee, American Headache Society, 2001.
• Member, Mentoring Task Force, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2001.

Esler, J. L., Barlow, D. H., Woolard, R. H., Nicholson, R. A., Nash, J. M., & Erogul, M.  (in press).  A brief cognitive behavioral intervention for patients with non-cardiac chest pain.  Behavior Therapy.

Lipchik, G., Holroyd, K. A., & Nash, J. M.  (2002).  Cognitive-behavioral management of recurrent headache disorders: A minimal therapist contact approach.  In D. C. Turk & R. J. Gatchel (Eds.), Psychological approaches to pain management (2^nd ed.).  New York: Guilford Press.

Lipchik, G. L., & Nash, J. M.  (2002).  Cognitive-behavioral issues in the treatment and management of chronic daily headache.  Current Pain and Headache Reports, 6, 473-479.

Nash, J. G., & Nash, J. M.  (in press).  A structural representation of migraine diagnostic criteria: The experts' view.  Headache.

Nash, J. M., Holroyd, K. A., Rokicki, L. A., Kvaal, S., & Penzien, D. B.  (2002).  Does placebo awareness affect drug response: Stimulant drug response under double-blind versus clinical administration instructions.  Psychopharmacology, 161, 213-221.

Nash, J. M., Lipchik, G. L., Holroyd, K. A., McCool, H., & Stensland, M.  (in press).  American headache society members' assessment of headache diagnostic criteria.  Headache.

Paul, R., Nash, J. M., Cohen, R., & Gilchrist, J. M.  (2002).  Quality of life in two samples of myastehnia gravis patients.  Muscle and Nerve, 25, 467-468.

Paul, R., Nash, J. M., Cohen, R., Gilchrist, J., & Goldstein, J.  (2001).  Quality of life in patients with myasthenia gravis.  Muscle and Nerve, 24, 512-516.

Walker, B. B., & Nash, J. M.  (2002).  Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary outpatient headache management program.  Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 85, 269-272.