Biography
Dr. Brian Hitsman is Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a clinical health psychologist with a research program that incorporates clinical trial, human laboratory, and epidemiological methods. His work focuses on the causes and treatment of tobacco use and dependence among “healthy” people, as well as among those with psychiatric disorders, especially depression, and has published his findings in leading psychiatry and psychology journals, including Addiction, Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and Neuropsychopharmacology. Dr. Hitsman is an Associate Editor for Nicotine & Tobacco Research, has been the recipient of several NIH grants, and has served on scientific review panels for National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Cancer Institute, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His honors include an American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Young Investigator Memorial Travel Award, a Benjamin Meaker Fast Track Visiting Professorship in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in England, and a NIDA Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award. Dr. Hitsman was an invited member of the 2005-06 National Institute of Mental Health workgroup on tobacco use and cessation in psychiatric disorders and a contributing author of the 2010 Surgeon General’s Report entitled How Tobacco Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease.