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2008-09
Chapter Officers' Bios
Stephen Palmer, PhD, ELS
Immediate Past President
Professional
title & affiliation
Scientific Medical Writer
The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital,
Houston, TX
Professional
background
A research psychologist by training, Steve changed careers after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in pain and symptom research at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He has been working as a medical writer and editor at the Texas Heart Institute since 2003.
Other
professional affiliations/offices held
- 2008 AMWA Annual Conference Poster Session Coordinator
- Member, AMWA Constitution and Bylaws Committee (2007-)
- Member, Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (2004-)
- Delegate, AMWA Southwest Chapter (2005-2008)
Education
- B.A., Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
- Ph.D., Social and Health Psychology, The State University of New York at Stony Brook
Training/courses/certifications
- AMWA Core Certificate
- Working towards Advanced Certificate and Science Fundamentals
Certificate
Presentations/publications
- Ribeiro S, Palmer SN, Antonaci F. Cervicogenic headache. Am J Pain Manage 15:48-58, 2005.
- Palmer SN, Giesecke NM, Body SC, Shernan SK, Fox AA, Collard CD. Pharmacogenetics of anesthetic and analgesic agents. Anesthesiology 102:663-671, 2005.
- Mendoza TR, Chen C, Brugger A, et al. Lessons learned from a multiple-dose post-operative analgesic trial. Pain 109:103-109, 2004.
- Mendoza TR, Chen C, Brugger A, et al. The utility and validity of the modified brief pain inventory in a multiple-dose postoperative analgesic trial. Clin J Pain 20:357-362, 2004.
- Anderson KO, Getto CJ, Mendoza TR, et al. Fatigue and sleep disturbance in patients with cancer, patients with clinical depression, and community-dwelling adults. J Pain Symptom Manage 25:307-318, 2003.
- Wiens S, Palmer SN. Quadratic trend analysis and heartbeat detection. Biol Psychol 58:159-175, 2001.
- Mezzacappa ES, Katkin ES, Palmer SN. Epinephrine, arousal and emotion: a new look at two-factor theory. Cognit Emotion 13:181-199, 1999.
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