Contributors
Acknowledgments
I. Overview of Cardiology, Psychocardiac Disorders, and Pathophysiologic Mechanisms
II. Psychosocial Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease
III. Clinical Cardiac Psychology
Index
About the Editors
Robert Allan, PhD, is a clinical assistant professor of
psychology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. In 1983,
with cardiologist Stephen S. Scheidt, MD, he cofounded the Coronary
Risk Reduction Program at New York–Presbyterian Hospital. Since
then, Dr. Allan has taught twice-weekly classes on the Step-Down
Cardiac Care Unit, educating well over 10,000 patients and their
family members. In addition, he leads the stress management
programs at New York–Presbyterian Hospital's cardiac health
centers.
Dr. Allan's practice specialty is the psychological treatment of
cardiac patients; he has treated hundreds of cardiac patients in
individual therapy and has conducted more than 2,500 support
groups. In 1996, with coeditor Stephen S. Scheidt, he edited the
first edition of Heart and Mind: The Practice of Cardiac
Psychology. He has written many journal articles and book chapters
on cardiac psychology, including contributions to Braunwald's Heart
Disease series. Dr. Allan is also the author of Getting Control of
Your Anger; he had an extensive interview about anger with Diane
Sawyer on Good Morning America.
In 1982, Dr. Allan established the first stress reduction-support
group for cardiac patients in the New York metropolitan area, at
the Nassau County chapter of the American Heart Association.
Subsequently, he led the first stress management program for
officers and wives at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He
also is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Allan earned his BA from Queens College of the City University
of New York and his PhD in clinical psychology from New York
University, after which he took a position playing keyboards in a
band at the Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Subsequently, he studied music at the Juilliard School and has
performed popular music around the United States and in Europe and
Morocco. He is actively involved in music as a pianist, electric
keyboardist, and composer and is currently completing a recording
project with a number of celebrated jazz and classical musicians.
His website is http://robertallanphd.com.
Jeffrey Fisher, MD, is clinical professor of medicine
(cardiology) at the Weill Cornell Medical College and an attending
physician at New York–Presbyterian Hospital. He graduated with an
AB with "distinction in all subjects" from Cornell University
(College of Arts and Science) in 1972. He double majored in biology
(neurobiology and behavior) and psychology (physiological
psychology) and was an undergraduate teaching assistant for
Professor James Maas's famous "Introduction to Psychology–Psych
101," Professor William Lambert's "Theories of Personality," and
Professor Parker Marden's "Sociology of Medicine."
Anticipating a career as a psychiatrist, he attended the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, where he became enamored with
internal medicine, specifically cardiology. He deferred graduating
from Einstein after 3 years to spend a year doing laboratory
research with Drs. Edmund Sonnenblick and Edward Kirk, presenting
his research at the American Heart Association meeting in 1975.
After graduating with honors, he completed his internship and
residency at Einstein and did his cardiovascular fellowship
training at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Dr. Fisher joined the faculty of Cornell Medical College in 1981 as
an invasive cardiologist and began private practice in 1989. He has
continued to teach and write, and he has authored and/or coauthored
original articles and reviews on cardiovascular anatomy and
physiology; coronary, valvular, and congenital heart disease;
pulmonary hypertension; cardiogenic shock; cardiac tumors;
metabolic cardiopulmonary disease; cardiac psychology; and medical
history. He has served as a cardiologist to both the New York City
fire and police departments.
Dr. Fisher has been the recipient of numerous academic
scholarships, awards, and honors. His coediting of this book, and
cowriting Chapter 3 ("Psychocardiac Disorders") has taken him full
circle to his long-standing interest in how the psyche affects the
soma.
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