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Dr. Robert Friis

Professor and Department Chair Health Science

Professor, 1988‑Present,
Chair (1997-Present), Department of Health Science, California State University, Long Beach.
Director, VA/CSULB Joint Studies Institute, 1995-present.
Clinical Professor, 2003-Present, Department of Community and Environmental Medicine, University of California, Irvine

Education

Undergraduate

  • B.A., Psychology,Universityof California, Berkeley, 1964
  • EuropeanStudy: Alliance Francaise (Paris); Centre UniversitaireMediterranean (Nice);University ofMunich;Escuela de Idiomas (Madrid), 1964‑1965. Speaking and readingknowledge of German, French, and Spanish

Graduate

  • M.A., Educational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1966
  • Ph.D.,Higher Education (Research Training Track),ColumbiaUniversity, 1969

Postgraduate

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Epidemiology, (Research training inhealth aspects of the work and social environment; statisticalmethods) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969‑1971

VisitingProfessor,Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany, and Dresden TechnicalUniversity,spring 2001. Sabbatical leave devoted to researchon psychiatric epidemiology.

VisitingResearcher,Center for Nutrition and Toxicology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm(Huddinge), Sweden, fall 1993. Sabbatical leave devoted toresearch on resettlement and adjustment ofmigrants/immigrants/refugees in Sweden.

Assistantto Associate Clinical Professor,1982‑1993, Department of Medicine and Program in Social Ecology, Departmentof Neurology, University of California, Irvine.

Director,Epidemiology Field Services,County of Orange, Public Health and Medical Services, Divisionof Epidemiology, Santa Ana, California, 1978‑1980. This was acombination administrative/research position that involvedsupervision of infectious disease nurses as well as diseasecontrol in Orange County.

AssociateProfessor (Epidemiologist), Department of Health Science, City Universityof New York, Brooklyn College, 1976‑1978.

AssistantProfessor of Pediatrics and Community Health,Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1974-1976.Continued as Visiting Assistant Professor until 1977.

AssistantProfessor of Epidemiology,School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York,1971-1974. Continued as part-time course instructor until 1978.

Representative Publications

Friis R. Social support. In: Craighead WE, Nemeroff CB, eds. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience. 3rdEd.. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; 2000.

Wittchen H, Hoyer J, Friis R. Generalized anxiety disorder – a risk factor for depression? Internatl J Methods in Psychiatric Research. 2001;10(1):52-57.

Wittchen HU, Friis R, Jacobi E, Pfister H. Health is not given - patterns of 12 month somatic and mental disorders comorbidity in the community. European J Psychiatry. 2002; 17: Suppl. 1:82S-82S.

Friis RH, Wittchen H -U, Pfister H, Lieb R. Life events and changes in the course of depression in young adults. European J Psychiatry. 2002;17:241-53.

Lieb R, Zimmermann P, Friis R, Höfler M, Tholen S, Wittchen H -U. The natural course of DSM-IV somatoform disorders and syndromes among adolescents and young adults: A prospective-longitudinal community study. European J Psychiatry. 2002;17:1-

Friis RH, Nomura W, Ma C, Swan J. Socioepidemiologic and health-related correlates of walking for exercise among the elderly: results from the Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA). The Journal of Physical Activity and Aging. 2003;11:54-65.

Chernick M, Friis R. Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 2003.

Hoefler M, Wittchen H-U, Lieb R, Hoyer J, Friis RH. Statistics: How association chain graphs can model pathways into disorders. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 2003;12(2):78-85.

Friis RH, Sellers TA. Epidemiology for Public Health Practice. 3rd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2003.

Friis RH, Piane GM, Safer AM. Public Opinion Analysis Regarding the Uses of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) Funds. Public Health. 2004 (In Press)

Principal Investigator, Cambodian research initiative,CARA Grant 12BT-2201, Tobacco-Related Disease Program,University of California,, $106,456, 7/1/03-6/30/05.

Dr. Robert Friis

Department of Health Science
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840

Office Location: HHS2 115

Phone: (562) 985-1537
FAX: (562) 985-2384