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Dr. Monica Webb Hooper is Director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at the Case
Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
She is also Professor of Oncology, Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and
Psychological Sciences. Dr. Webb Hooper is a clinical health psychologist whose research
interests are in the health behavior change of cancer risk behaviors, with an emphasis on the
intersection between cancer prevention and control, and minority health and disparity
elimination. Dr. Webb Hooper’s research includes aspects of clinical health psychology,
biobehavioral oncology, public health, and social psychology. Her research program, the
Tobacco, Obesity, and Oncology Laboratory (TOOL) conducts theoretical, experimental, and
applied investigations on tobacco use, cessation, and relapse prevention in multiple populations
of smokers, including the general population, college students, people living with HIV/AIDS,
African Americans, and Hispanics. Her research has been funded continuously since 2006 by
the National Cancer Institute (NCI), American Cancer Society (ACS), and the Florida
Department of Health James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program (JEK). This line of
programmatic research is focused on reducing/eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in smoking
cessation. Dr. Webb Hooper undertakes novel, theory-based, approaches to understanding
methods to enhance treatment outcomes, with specific foci on modifiable mechanisms of
change. Substantively, her research focuses on tobacco use, group-based and individually
tailored smoking cessation interventions, culturally specific cessation interventions, biological
influences, and obesity/weight management. Her current research examines genetic and
personality factors as predictors of success in a group cessation intervention, best practices for
behavioral tobacco interventions among African American and Hispanic smokers,
understanding relationships between race/ethnicity, cultural variables, the biological stress
response and cessation. She is also interested in alternative tobacco product use among
smokers, such as electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). Dr. Webb Hooper has received national
recognition for her contributions to nicotine and tobacco research, and is a leader in the field of
tobacco-associated health disparities. Her overarching research goal is to make a significant
public health impact by reducing the prevalence of cancer overall, and cancer health disparities
in high-risk populations. The long-term result would be the elimination of disparities in tobaccoattributable illnesses.
Dr. Webb Hooper maintains active involvement in service at multiple levels, including scholarly
bodies, international organizations, university activities, and within communities. She serves on
committees for the NIH, several refereed journal editorial boards, and for the Tobacco Health
Disparities Network of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT).