 | Bonnie Spring earned her PhD in psychology from Harvard University and is Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of Behavioral Medicine, and Co-Program Leader in Cancer Prevention at Northwestern University. She is the Immediate Past President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) and recipient of SBM’s Distinguished Research Mentor award. She is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, member of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and holds the American Board of Professional Psychology's Diplomate in Clinical Health Psychology. She is an advisory editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, and Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, founding editor for Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research, and serves on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Spring’s research career has been defined by a proclivity for posing questions whose answers require a multidisciplinary, team science approach. For example, she initiated and Chairs the NIH-funded Council for Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice (EBBP), whose members are experts in medicine, psychology, nursing, public health, nursing, and library sciences. The EBBP Council’s mission is to create training resources and tools that help bridge the gap between research and behavioral health practice at the individual and population levels. Funded continuously since 1976, her research intervening on behavioral risk factors (smoking, poor quality diet, physical inactivity, obesity) brings together collaborators in behavioral science, medicine, nutrition, kinesiology, engineering, economics, and social networks science. Within RTS, Dr. Spring is developing a series of online learning resources to help researchers conduct better team science. The learning modules will convey background knowledge about the science of team science, and will feature lessons learned from the experiences of successful basic, clinical and behavioral science research teams. |
