ADVISOR BIO

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Chris Sciamanna

Dr. Chris Sciamanna is a general internist with a Masters in Public Health degree. He has spent the past 20 years developing and testing the impact of interventions, both online and face-to-face, for smoking, physical inactivity, stress reduction and obesity. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, has been the PI of four NIH-funded clinical trials. He is now the PI of a 1300 person PCORI-funded pragmatic trial to test the impact of Band Together, including strength, aerobic and balance training – on fall-related injuries among seniors. For 9 years, he was previously the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine and is now the Chief of the Division of Population Health Research and Development, whose goal is to develop, test and disseminate highly cost effective interventions to improve the small number of key health behaviors that contribute to the deaths of nearly half of US adults each year. He has his own panel of primary care patients, who are the inspiration for the type of programs he develops as well as how he crafts the user experience to be something patients truly look forward to participating in.