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Belinda Borrelli is an American clinical psychologist specializing in smoking cessation. She is a Full Professor in the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine's Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research and director of Boston University's Behavioral Science Research.

Early life and education

Growing up in Paramus, New Jersey, Borrelli worked at Chick-fil-A in Paramus Park to receive a scholarship to Rutgers University. Following this, she received her Master's degree and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed her residency and fellowship training in Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at Brown University's Alpert Medical School.

Career

Brown University

Following her residency and fellowship, Borrelli joined the faculty at Brown University in 1997. During her tenure at Brown, Borrelli led the first study focusing on Latino smokers who are caregivers to children with asthma. She also led the Parents of Asthmatics Quit Smoking project in 2002 which focused on how to motivate parents of kids with asthma to stop smoking. She served as the Co-Principal Investigator with Michelle Henshaw on a project aimed at motivating low income parents to engage in pediatric oral health behaviors, with the goal of cavity prevention. As a result of her research, Borrelli was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2009.

Boston University

Borrelli left Brown University in 2013 to become a visiting professor at the University of Manchester. Upon returning to the United States, she became the director of Boston University's the Center for Behavioral Science Research and professor in the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine's Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research in September 2014. While serving in these roles, Borrelli was the first author on a study titled Prevalence and Frequency of mHealth and eHealth Use Among US and UK Smokers and Differences by Motivation to Quit. To reach her conclusion, Borrelli and her research team evaluated a cohort of 1,000 smokers, half from the United States and half from the United Kingdom.

In May 2017, Borrelli and colleagues from across Boston University launched an Affinity Research Collaborative on Mobile and Electronic Health. The aim of Mobile and Electronic Health ARC was to conduct research and training in mobile and electronic health to improve the health of populations, through mobile technology. As a result of her collaborative research, Borrelli was the recipient of the 2017 Evans Center Research Collaborator of the Year by the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and the Boston University Department of Medicine.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Borrelli joined BU's Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy as their Director of the Digital Health Domain. She also became an associate editor of the journal American Psychologist.

Personal life

Borrelli married Steven Riesinger in 2011.

References

1. "Scholarship". Hackensack, New Jersey: The Record. July 23, 1986. Retrieved May 30, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
2. "Belinda Borrelli". bu.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
3. ^ "Belinda Borrelli Brown Profile". brown.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
4. Castello, Sofia (March 1, 2010). "Professor creates culturally adapted smoking treatment". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
5. Borrelli, Belinda; et al. (October 2002). "Motivating parents of kids with asthma to quit smoking: the PAQS project". Health Education Research. 17 (5): 659–669. doi:10.1093/her/17.5.659. PMID 12408210.
6. ^ "Dr. Belinda Borrelli Has Impressive Start at GSDM". bu.edu. July 14, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
7. "Leading health behaviour change psychologist joins Manchester". manchester.ac.uk. July 10, 2013. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
8. "Dr. Belinda Borrelli Publishes Paper on the Influence of mHealth and eHealth Interventions on Smoking Cessation". bu.edu. November 12, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
9. "Dr. Belinda Borrelli Launches Mobile and Electronic Health ARC with Colleagues from Across BU". bu.edu. May 9, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
10. Stevens, Jason (November 2, 2017). "Dr. Belinda Borrelli Receives Evans Center Research Collaborator of the Year Award". bu.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
11. "Dr. Belinda Borrelli Joins IHSIP as Director of Digital Health". bu.edu. April 2, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
12. "The American Psychologist Incoming Editorial Board". apa.org. American Psychologist. Archived from the original on May 31, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
13. "Dr. Belinda Borrelli and Dr. Steven Riesinger". The Record. June 26, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2021 – via newspapers.com.

External links

• Belinda Borrelli publications indexed by Google Scholar

• Living people
• People from Paramus, New Jersey
• Rutgers University alumni
• University of Illinois Chicago alumni
• Academics of the University of Manchester
• Boston University faculty
• American academic journal editors