Welcome to the
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital!
The Centers were established in 1990
at The Miriam Hospital, with the goal of becoming the Brown University designated
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. In 1998, the Centers for Behavioral
and Preventive Medicine were officially designated as representing Brown Medical
School and the Lifespan Academic Medical Center's programs for research and
training in Behavioral and Preventive Medicine.
Founded in 1976, as the Division of Behavioral Medicine the Centers are guided by a commitment to academic research, educational and
training programs at the pre- and post- doctoral level, and clinical and community
service in behavioral medicine.
Directed by Bess Marcus, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School, the Centers employ
30 faculty
and over 50 staff members. In 2005, the Centers received a total of over $17.6 million in
direct and indirect external funding.
The day-to-day work of the Centers provides
faculty and staff the opportunity to live up to a critical mission - to
explore ways, from cells to society, to prevent and reduce disease
burden and to improve the quality and quantity of life.
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Behavioral Medicine
is the interdisciplinary field concerned
with the development and integration
of
behavioral and biomedical science, knowledge, and techniques relevant to
health and illness and the application of this knowledge and these techniques
to prevention, diagnosis, treatment
and rehabilitation.
Schwartz and Weiss,1978
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