Tené Lewis

Tené T. Lewis’ primary area of research is in the area of health psychology/psychosocial epidemiology, with an emphasis on cardiovascular health in women. She has a particular interest in understanding how psychological and social factors contribute to the disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality observed in African-American women compared to women of other racial/ethnic groups. Dr. Lewis has two primary projects: one focused on psychosocial stress, resilience, and ambulatory blood pressure in healthy African-American women, and the other focused on psychosocial stress, inflammation and atherosclerosis in African-American women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Dr. Lewis’ scientific work has received honors from the American Psychosomatic Society and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and has been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, Essence Magazine, JET magazine and on National Public Radio (NPR).

Areas of Interest

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Mental Health
• Social Determinants of Health
• Social Epidemiology
• Women’s Health

Education

• B.A. 1996, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor
• M.A. 1998, University of California, Los Angeles
• Ph.D. 2003, University of California, Los Angeles

Publications

• Lewis TT, Charles D, Lampert R, Katz S., 2019, Expectations of Racism and Carotid Intima Media Thickness in African-American Women., Psychosomatic Medicine, ,
• Neergheen VL, Topel ML, Van Dyke M, Sullivan S, Pemu P, Gibbons GH, Vaccarino V, Quyyumi A, Lewis TT , 2019, Neighborhood Social Cohesion is associated with Lower Levels of Interleukin-6 In African American Women, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 76, 28-36
• Lewis TT, Van Dyke ME , 2018, Discrimination and the Health of African-Americans: The Potential importance of “Intersectionalities” , Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 176-182
• Van Dyke M, Vaccarino V, Dunbar SB, Pemu P, Gibbons GH, Quyyumi A, Lewis TT, 2017, Socioeconomic status discrimination and C-reactive protein in African-American and White adults, Psychoneuroendocrinology, 82, 9-16
• Lewis TT, Cogburn C, Williams DR. , 2015, Self-Reported Experiences of Discrimination And Health: Scientific Advances, Ongoing Controversies, and Emerging Issues. , Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. , 28, 407-440
• Lewis TT, Yang F, Jacobs EA, Fitchett G, 2012, Racial/Ethnic Differences in Responses to the Everyday Discrimination Scale: A Differential Item Functioning Analysis, American Journal of Epidemiology , 175, 391-401
• Lewis TT, Kravitz HK, Janssen I, Powell LH. , 2011, Self-Reported Experiences of Discrimination and Visceral Fat in Middle-Aged African-American and White Women. , American Journal of Epidemiology., 173, 1223-1231