Biography
Dr. Janey Peterson is Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Cardiothoracic Surgery. She is a clinical epidemiologist and behavioral scientist whose reasearch area is behavioral approaches to improving outcomes among older adults with chronic illness. She is also interested in measurement and methodology, and teaches in the Graduate School of Medical Sciences. As a registered nurse, her clinical work has focused in the areas of cardiothoracic critical care, psychiatry and general medicine.
Dr. Peterson has extensive experience in designing and conducting clinical trials in the peri-operative, inpatient as well as community settings. She is interested in long-term clinical and psychosocial outcomes in older adults with multimorbidity. She has recently focused on developing behavioral interventions that promote lifestyle change. In particular, she is interested in motivating maintenance of physical activity to improve long-term clinical outcomes in high risk populations, such as elderly adults with multiple chronic diseases. Dr. Peterson works in both quantitative and qualitative research.
