Siobhan Phillips, PhD, MPH has been appointed as Interim Chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Phillips is currently a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Director of Physical Activity Promotion in the Cancer Survivorship Institute at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Phillip’s interdisciplinary research is focused on understanding the determinants and outcomes of physical activity participation, designing and optimizing innovative interventions and clinical trials to maximize adherence, physical and cognitive function, health and disease outcomes, and longevity, and translating research into practice with an emphasis on cancer prevention and control.
Siobhan holds a PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a MPH from Harvard University and completed the National Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. She has made significant contributions to exercise oncology research through developing and testing digital health tools to promote physical activity across many cancer survivors populations and interventions including Fit2Thrive, Fit2ThriveMB, Opt2move, and Fit2ThriveMIND. Her work has been recognized by several awards including the National Institute of Health (NIH) Early-Stage Investigator Lecture Award. She is also an elected Fellow in the Society of Behavioral Medicine where she has also served as the leader of the Physical Activity and Optimization of Biobehavioral Interventions special interest groups.
In this new role, Dr. Phillips looks forward to further advancing behavioral medicine research at
Northwestern. “Health behaviors and lifestyle factors are major preventable contributors to morbidity and mortality in the U.S. It is a privilege to take on this role to build and expand on the remarkable work of our faculty in pioneering innovative approaches to understanding health behaviors and lifestyle factors and developing, testing and implementing impactful behavioral medicine interventions that improve health, longevity and quality of life.”
