Lynda Powell
Fellowship year
2015-16 - Rush Medical College - Study 53
At CASBS, Lynda Powell aims to tackle one of the most significant challenges in health care today, by writing a book on innovations in sustained lifestyle change that draw upon the multidisciplinary expertise provided by the rich CASBS environment. Healthy living is fundamental to chronic disease prevention and management. Decades of research have shown that we can produce lifestyle changes, but we cannot make them stick. The status quo is to target individual behaviors and keep a blind eye to the social, cultural, environmental, economic, and policy-level factors that drive them. A potential solution to the sustainability problem is to take a multidisciplinary perspective.
Powell is professor in the department of family and preventative medicine at Rush University Medical Center. She is recognized for expertise in developing behavioral interventions to improve chronic diseases, and rigorous methods for evaluating them in clinical trials. She has trained over 800 new investigators as a founding faculty member in two NIH training institutes. During her 2015-16 CASBS fellowship, she wrote the first book on methods for behavioral clinical trials for chronic diseases. Powell has shown that after a six-month lifestyle intervention, health benefits were sustained by two years. Core elements of the intervention integrated strategies from psychology, sociology, and behavioral economics, suggesting the potential value of a multidisciplinary approach to solving the sustainability problem.
Tyler Books
| Book Cover | Book Title and link |
|---|---|
 | Powell, Lynda H., Freedland, Kenneth E., Kaufmann, Peter G.. 2021. Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases. Cham, Switzerland: Springer |
Tyler Journal Articles
Shahabi, Leila; Karavolos, Kelly; Everson-Rose, Susan A.; Lewis, Tené T.; Matthews, Karen A.; Sutton-Tyrrell, Kim; Powell, Lynda H.; . 2016. Associations of Psychological Well-Being with Carotid Intima Media Thickness in African American and White Middle-Aged Women. 78(4): 511-519.
Janssen, Imke; Powell, Lynda H.; Matthews, Karen A.; Jasielec, Mateusz S.; Hollenberg, Steven M.; Bromberger, Joyce T.; Sutton-Tyrrell, Kim; Everson-Rose, Susan A.; . 2016. Relation of Persistent Depressive Symptoms to Coronary Artery Calcification in Women Aged 46 to 59 Years. 117(12): 1884-1889. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002914916304222
El Khoudary, Samar R.; Shields, Kelly J.; Janssen, Imke; Hanley, Carrie; Budoff, Matthew J.; Barinas-Mitchell, Emma; Everson-Rose, Susan A.; Powell, Lynda H.; Matthews, Karen A.; . 2015. Cardiovascular fat, menopause, and sex hormones in women: The SWAN cardiovascular fat ancillary study. 100(9): 3304-3312. https://doi.org/10.1210/JC.2015-2110
Janssen, Imke; Powell, Lynda H.; Jasielec, Mateusz S.; Kazlauskaite, Rasa; . 2015. Covariation of change in bioavailable testosterone and adiposity in midlife women. 23(2): 488-494. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20974
Doukky, Rami; Avery, Elizabeth; Mangla, Ashvarya; Collado, Fareed M.; Ibrahim, Zeina; Poulin, Marie France; Richardson, De Juran; Powell, Lynda H.; . 2016. Impact of dietary sodium restriction on heart failure outcomes. 4(1): 24-35.
Doukky, Rami; Mangla, Ashvarya; Ibrahim, Zeina; Poulin, Marie France; Avery, Elizabeth; Collado, Fareed M.; Kaplan, Jonathan; Richardson, Dejuran; Powell, Lynda H.; . 2016. Impact of physical inactivity on mortality in patients with heart failure. 117(7): 1135-1143. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002914916300194
Kazlauskaite, Rasa; Innola, Pilvi; Karavolos, Kelly; Dugan, Sheila A.; Avery, Elizabeth F.; Fattout, Yacob; Karvonen-Gutierrez, Carrie; Janssen, Imke; Powell, Lynda H.; . 2015. Abdominal adiposity change in white and black midlife women: The study of women's health across the nation. 23(12): 2340-2343. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21350
Dugan, Sheila A.; Lange-Maia, Brittney; Karavolos, Kelly; Kazlauskaite, Rasa; Hollings, Chiquia S.; Avery, Elizabeth; Nackers, Lisa; Lynch, Elizabeth; Ventrelle, Jennifer; Normand, Patricia; Johnson, Tricia; Fullam, Francis; Shipp-Johnson, Karla; Wilbur, Jo Ellen; Powell, Lynda H.; . 2016. Design of a lifestyle intervention to slow menopause-related progression of intra-abdominal adipose tissue in women: The Women in the Southside Health and Fitness (WISHFIT) study. 4(): 74-83. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451865416300291
Dugan, Sheila A.; Karavolos, Kelly; Lynch, Elizabeth B.; Hollings, Chiquia S.; Fullam, Francis; Lange-Maia, Brittney S.; Powell, Lynda H.; . 2016. A Multimethod investigation into physical activity in midlife women. 13(12): 1351-1359. https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/jpah/13/12/article-p1351.xml