Lisa Carter-harris PhD, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN, TTS

Dr. Carter-Harris is an Associate Attending Behavioral Scientist, and the Director of the Tobacco Research, Treatment & Training Lab in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Broadly, her program of research focuses on helping patients and their clinicians have more effective discussions, with the goal of improving patient decision-making.

She has a passion for working with patients who have been diagnosed with, or who are at high risk for, the development of tobacco-related cancers. In addition to her work focused on communication and decision-making, Dr. Carter-Harris' research also aims to decrease the stigma associated with tobacco-related cancers and to decrease health disparities among cancer patients and individuals at risk for tobacco-related cancers.

Dr. Carter-Harris first became interested in the field of lung cancer after a health policy practicum during her doctoral studies, in which she had the opportunity to attend a health policy workshop on Capitol Hill. She heard the many stories of lung cancer survivors and caregivers and saw the social injustice that lung cancer patients experienced secondary to lung cancer-related stigma. That ignited a passion for early detection and decreasing lung cancer stigma that has permeated every study she has conducted.