Megan Lewis, PhD

Director, Patient and Family Engagement Research Program
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Rd
Research Triangle Park, NC
USA 27709
Email: melewis@rti.org


Biographical Sketch: Megan A. Lewis is a senior research scientist with more than 20 years of experience in both quantitative and qualitative research, specializing in social science and health behavior research, program evaluation, including formative, outcome, and impact evaluation. She has unique expertise in health-related interpersonal communication focusing on health promotion and chronic illness management and the use of health and social science behavior theory in guiding research and intervention development. She is experienced in multiple quantitative research methods, including short-term and longitudinal observational studies, experiments, and experience sampling methods as well as qualitative methods such as semi-structured interviewing techniques, focus group moderation, and analysis of qualitative data with qualitative comparative analysis. Her research is distinguished by the use of dyadic and interpersonal theories and analytic methods to study how couple and family functioning affect a wide array of health behaviors and disease processes, and she has published extensively on these topics. She has worked on public health subjects such as physical activity, nutrition, cancer prevention, HIV, type 1 and 2 diabetes, arthritis and chronic disease management. Her work has been funded by multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (NIAMS), and the National Institute on Aging, as well as private foundations and universities. Education PhD, Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 1992. MA, Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 1989. BA, Psychology, 1984, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1984. Graduated with honors and distinction.

Papers:
PARTNER INFLUENCE ON ASTHMA PATIENTS' DECISION MAKING ABOUT PRESCRIPTION DRUGS