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Family Medicine
Naomi L. Lacy, PhD
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ACADEMIC DEGREES:
MA/PhD Sociology
BS Earth Sciences
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Contact Name: Naomi L. Lacy
Phone Number: 402-559-8492
e-mail address: nlacy@unmc.edu
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1RO1CA096831-01A1 McVea (PI)
9/12/03 – 8/31//07
National Cancer Institute
Teen Counselors for Smoking Cessation
Using peer counselors to deliver brief, tailored smoking cessation messages
to high school smokers. The study design is a randomized controlled trial of
peer smoking cessation counseling.
Role: Co-Investigator
1
RO1 HD044144-01A1 White (PI)
3/01/04 – 12/31/08
National Institute of Child Health and Development
Infertility: Pathways and Psychosocial Outcomes
The proposed research will track a sample of 5,700 women and their partners
through an initial telephone interview and a re-interview 3 years later, to
document and explain disparities by race/ethnicity and social class in
helpseeking, in behavioral outcomes of helpseeking, and in psychosocial
responses.
Role: Co-investigator
2006-03B Lacy (PI)
7/01/05 – 6/30/06
NE DHHS LB506
Discussing Smoking at Family Practice Visits
The major goals of this project are to determine how the content and process
of physician/patient conversations differs between encounters which do and
do not include smoking cession, how patients react to physician counseling
or failure to counsel and how the dynamics of counseling affect physicians’
willingness to counsel.
Role: PI
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McCurdy FA, O’Dell DV,
Susman J, Steele DJ, Paulman PM, Harper JL, Lacy NL. From library to
discharge: A managing care student project. Fam Med 2004;
36(Suppl): S93-S97.
Lacy NL, Paulman A,
Reuter MD, Lovejoy B. Why we don’t come: Patient perceptions on no-shows.
Annals of Family Medicine 2004;2(6): 541-545.
Lacy NL, Paulman PM,
Hartman TL. Effect of preceptorship rurality on students’ self-perceived
clinical competency. Family Medicine 2005; 37(6):404-409.
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PREVIOUS
GRADUATE STUDENTS/POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS (present location):
Paige Toller. GR Intern, UNL
Jamie Marincic, GRA UNL
Terri
Morrow, GRA UNO
Frances Olson, GRA UNL
Sarah Boro, summer M1 student (UNMC)
Leah Bryant, GRA, from UNL (DePaul University)
Ryon Parker, undergraduate summer student, Hastings College (employed
Hastings, NE)
Talking About
Prevention: Physician-Patient Encounters in Family Medicine. Current:
Discussing Smoking.Upcoming: Discussing Diabetes control. Analysis of
videotaped patient/physician conversations.
Faculty Assessment of
Needs. Development and analysis of faculty surveys. Coordinated by
Department of Continuing Education.
Peer counselors for
smoking cessation in high schools. Training “friends to help friends” among
hs student smokers.
Infertility: data
analysis. Interviews with couples about their help seeking process.
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The department of Family Medicine offers summer students
formal research training and seminars during an orientation week. These
sessions help prepare students to understand the broader context of clinical
research including study design, sampling, data collection,
analysis/statistical testing, and medical ethics. Students actively involved
in our research projects are acknowledged as co-authors on published
manuscripts resulting from their work.
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