Director, Health Management Research
Gordian Health Solutions, Informatics Dept
Areas of Expertise:
Scientific methodology; research design & analysis; worksite health promotion; cost of lifestyle health risks; social psychology; program evaluation
Education/Credentials:
Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Awards:
Best Dissertation on a Topic Relevant to Community Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, 2005
Best Paper Award (with coauthor Douglas Perkins) for 2002 from the Urban Affairs Association for our chapter published in the Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing volume Psychological Sense of Community: Research, Applications, and Implications;
Richard P. Walsh Clinical Psychology Graduate Student of the Year Award for 1995, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Business Affiliations/Boards:
Member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Member of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management.
Published Works:
Long, D. A., Reed, R.W., & Lehman, G.O. (2006). The cost of lifestyle health risks: Obesity. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 48(3), 244-251.
Long, D. A., Perry, T.L., Pelletier, K.R., & Lehman, G.O. (2006). Care management program evaluation: Constituents, conflicts, and moves toward standardization. Disease Management, 9(3), 176-181.
Long, D. A. & Perkins, D. D. (in press; slated for an early 2007 issue). Community social and place factors in sense of community: A multilevel and longitudinal analysis. Journal of Community Psychology.
Long, D. A. (2005). Residential community identification and psychological well-being. Doctoral dissertation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. (Winner, Best Dissertation on a Topic Relevant to Community Psychology Award, 2005, from the American Psychological Association.)
Long, D. A., & Perkins, D. D. (2003). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Sense of Community Index and development of a brief SCI. Journal of Community Psychology, 31(3), 279-296.
Perkins, D. D., & Long, D. A. (2002). Neighborhood sense of community and social capital: A multi-level analysis. In A. T. Fisher, C. C. Sonn, & B. J. Bishop's (Eds.) Psychological sense of community: Research, applications, and implications(pp. 291-318). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. (Winner of the Urban Affairs Association’s best paper award contest sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation.)
Long, D. A., Mueller, J. C., Wyers, R., Khong, V., & Jones, B. (1996). Effects of gender and dress on helping behavior. Psychological Reports, 78, 987-994.
Long, D. A. (1994). Hand differences and reported intensity of nociceptive stimuli. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79, 411-417.
Speeches/Presentations:
June 2006 - Direct and Indirect Medical Costs of Alcohol/Substance Abuse and Residential Community Identification and Psychological Well-Being. Two separate papers presented at the Hawaii International Conference of the Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii.
October 2005 - Care enhancement program evaluation: Is standardization possible? Presenter and panel member for the Outcomes Symposium breakout session entitled Outcomes Consolidation and Measurement – the Conundrum, moderated by V. Villagra at the Disease Management Leadership Forum conference, San Diego, California.
June 2005 - Residential community identification and psychological well-being: The predictive utility of self-identity as situated in the street block as social group and physical place. Presented as part of the Innovative Symposium on Multilevel Modeling at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, Urbana, Illinois.
2004 Fall - An Introduction to Multi-Level Modeling. Invited lecture for Professor Kenneth Wallston’s graduate research methods course, Vanderbilt University.
August 2003 - Self-Identity, Place, and Psychological Well-Being: An Ecological Analysis of Neighborhood Place Identity and Social Identity on Psychological Well-Being Controlling for Social Capital, Crime Rates, Defensible Space, Stress, Social Support, and Multilevel Sociodemographics. Presenter and panel member for a special session entitled Place, Space, and Mental Health. 53rd Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 Fall - Self-Identity Space and Psychological Well-Being. Invited lecture for Professor Douglas Perkin’s course Environmental Change and Psychology, Vanderbilt University.
June 2003 - Brief Sense of Community Index and Multi-Level Analysis of SOC. Part of an innovative symposium-poster session entitled Innovations in Quantitative and Qualitative Measurement of Sense of Community. Also, panel discussant in a companion session entitled Methodological Choices in Community Research: Sense of Community Case Studies. 9th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
2000 Spring - The Illusion of Control. Invited lecture for Professor Oakley Ray’s course Control of Human Behavior, Vanderbilt University.
