Nancy Frasure-Smith

Dr. Frasure-Smith received a PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and completed an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in psychology at McGill University. She holds the rank of Professor of psychiatry at McGill with a cross-appointment at McGill’s Ingram School of Nursing. She is also an associated Professor (professeure associée) of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, a researcher at the Centre hôspitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), and Senior Research Associate at the Montreal Heart Institute. She is a past President of the American Psychosomatic Society. Her research program, carried out in conjunction with psychiatrists, cardiologists and nurses at McGill, the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute, has been concerned with assessing the importance of psychological and social variables in the development and prognosis of cardiovascular disease; exploring physiological and behavioural mechanisms linking psychological and social variables with cardiovascular disease; and developing and evaluating interventions to change the impact of psychological and social variables in cardiovascular disease. Along with her colleague, Dr. François Lespérance, Dr. Frasure-Smith is known internationally for bringing depression to the forefront of behavioural cardiology.