| Behavioral Research Program Leadership Changes
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August 2004
Dr. Linda Nebeling has been appointed the new acting associate director for behavioral research in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), leaving her post as branch chief for the Health Promotion Research Branch (HPRB). She has been the leader of HPRB since 1998, and before joining DCCPS, was a nutritionist and cancer prevention fellow in the former NCI Division of Cancer Prevention and Control. Dr. Nebeling replaces Dr. Scott Leischow, branch chief for NCI’s Tobacco Control Research Branch and former acting associate director for behavioral research, who is performing a four- to six-month detail to the Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, to facilitate the planning and implementation of trans-agency tobacco control initiatives. Dr. Louise Mâsse, a psychometrician with expertise in exercise psychology, succeeds Dr. Nebeling to serve as acting branch chief for HPRB.
Dr. Gary Kreps will leave his position as branch chief for the DCCPS Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch to accept a position as endowed chair and tenured professor of health communication and chair of the Department of Communication at George Mason University. Dr. Brad Hesse, a senior health communication scientist, will serve as acting branch chief.
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