Donna Parker, ScD
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Epidemiology
Dr. Parker is a cardiovascular epidemiologist and an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Epidemiology at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is also the Director of Community Health and Research in the Center for Primary care and Prevention. Dr. Parker has a long history of collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams on epidemiologic research and smoking cessation. She is currently the PI on a COPD grant entitled "Translating the GOLD COPD Guidelines into primary care practice" and has been involved in conducting both patient and provider focus groups to discuss the knowledge, attitude and behaviors regarding COPD. She recently was the Chairperson on a COPD conference entitled, "The Changing Face of COPD: From Bedside to the Community to help increase the current knowledge base of COPD diagnosis and management in primary care practices. She has published peer reviewed articles related to cardiovascular disease, primary care and smoking cessation. She is also a Women's Health Initiative investigator and is a member of the Scientific Interest Group in CVD. She has also been involved in smoking cessation studies with a variety of populations including a recent smoking cessation clinical trial to enhance smoking abstinence rates among individuals following release from a tobacco free prison. Additionally, she has been involved in several smoking intervention trials for pregnant and postpartum women. New England SCRIPT, a smoking cessation RCT for under served pregnant women, was very successful in recruitment and smoking cessation rates; Postpartum Maintenance of Abstinence from Tobacco, tested whether a telephone counseling intervention could maintain postpartum abstinence among women who quit at the start of or during their pregnancy; and Reducing ETS Exposure of Pregnant Women and Newborns assessed an intervention (home-based tailored videotapes) to help pregnant women maximize their pregnancy outcome and their new infants health through reduction in exposure to ETS.
Clarke JG, Stein LAR, Martin RA, Martine SA, Parker D, Lopes CE, McGovern AR, Simon R, Roberts M, Friedman P, Bock B. Behavioral intervention to maintain smoking abstinence after release from prison. 2012 Arch Intern Med (in press).
Eaton CB, Parker DR, Borkan J, Roberts MB, Lu B, Ahern D. Translating Cholesterol Guidelines into Primary Care Practice: A multi-modal cluster randomized trial. 2011 Ann Fam Med May 1; 9(3):(3):250-6. PMID: 22084264
Zlotnick C, Capezza NM, Parker, DR. An Interpersonally Based Intervention for Low-income Pregnant Women with Intimate Partner Violence: A Pilot Study. Arch Womens Ment Health 2011; 14:55–65. PMID: 21153559
Parker DR, Eaton CB. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Smoking Cessation. Amer J Lifestyle Med 2011;5(3).
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Parker DR, Luo X, Jalber JJ, Assaf AR. Impact of upper and lower gastrointestinal blood loss on health care utilization and costs: A systematic review. J Med Econ 2011; 14 (3):279-287. PMID: 21456948
Lu B, Zhou J, Waring ME, Parker DR, Eaton CB. Abdominal obesity and peripheral vascular disease in men and women: a comparison of waist-to-thigh ratio and waist circumference as measures of abdominal obesity. Atherosclerosis 2010;208:253-257 PMID: 19656509
Tabenkin H, Eaton CB, Roberts MB, Parker DR, McMurray JH, Borkan J, Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Management in Primary Care by Sex of Physician and Patient. Ann of Fam Med 2010;8:25-32. PMID: 20065275
Eaton CB, Parker DR, Craft J, McMurray J, Roberts M, Borkan J, Goldman R, Ahern D. Using E-Health to Improve Cholesterol Management in Primary Care Practice. J Med Pract Manage 2009 January/Febraury:224-230. PMID:19288645
Waring ME, Roberts MB, Parker DR, Eaton CB. Documentation and management of overweight and obesity in primary care. J Am Board Fam Med 2009;22:544-552. PMID: 19734401
Kabat GC, Kim M, Chlebowski RT, Khandekar J, Ko MG, McTiernan A, Neuhouser ML, Parker DR, Shikany JM, Stefanick ML, Thomson C, Rohan TE. A Longitudinal Study of the Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18:2046-53. PMID: 19567502
Parker DR, Gramling R., Goldman RE, Eaton CB, Ahern D, Cover RT, M.A., Borkan J. Physicians’ Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators Regarding Adoption of the National Cholesterol Education Program Guidelines. Prev Cardiol 2008; 11:29-35.PMID: 18174789
Eaton CB, Gramling R, Parker DR, Roberts MB, Lu B, Ridker P. Prospective Association of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A) with Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Southeastern New England. Atherosclerosis, 2008 Sep;200(1):221-7. PMID: 18261732
Lu B, Parker D, Eaton CB. Relationship of Periodontal Attachment Loss to Peripheral Vascular Disease: An Analysis of NHANES 1999-2002 Data. Atherosclerosis, 2008 Sep;200(1):199-205. PMID: 18262191
Parker DR, Goldman RE, Eaton CB. A Qualitative study of individuals at risk or who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: What do they understand about their disease? Lung, 2008 Sep-Oct; 186(5):313-6. PMID: 18463922