Dr. Bernard F. Fuemmeler, PhD, MPH

Research Interests: 

Obesity and tobacco control, AYA cancer survivorship, early life exposure and cancer, social/behavioral epidemiology, digital health communication

Education:

Undergraduate Education

• University of New Mexico, Psychology/Philosophy 1989 - 1994

Graduate Education

• Harvard University, Quantitative Methods/Epidemiology, M.P.H. 2002 - 2003

• Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Ok, Clinical Psychology, Ph.D.  1998 - 2001

• Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, Psychology, M.S. 1996 - 1998

Post Graduate Education

• Clinical Psychology Internship, Behavioral Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina 2000 - 2001

• Pediatric Psychology Research, Behavioral Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina 2001 - 2002

• Cancer Prevention and Control, Division of Cancer Prevention, Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, National Cancer Institute 2003 - 2005

Select Publications:

• Fuemmeler, B.F., Behrman, P., Taylor, M., Sokol, R., Rothman, E., Jacobson, L.T., Wischenka, D., Tercyak, K.P. (accepted). Child and family health in the era of prevention: new opportunities and challenges. 

• Fuemmeler, B.F., Wang, L., Iversen, E.S., Maguire, R., Murphy, S.K., Hoyo, C. (2016) Association between prepregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain with size, tempo and velocity of infant weight gain: Analysis of the Newborn Epigenetic Study (NEST) cohort. Childhood Obesity, 12 (3): 210-218. PMCID: PMC4876550 2016

• Joubert BR, Felix JF, Yousefi P, Bakulski KM, Just AC, Breton C, Reese SE, Markunas CA, Richmond RC, Xu CJ, Küpers LK, Oh SS, Hoyo C, Gruzieva O, Söderhäll C, Salas LA, Baïz N, Zhang H, Lepeule J, Ruiz C, Ligthart S, Wang T, Taylor JA, Duijts L, Sharp GC, Jankipersadsing SA, Nilsen RM, Vaez A, Fallin MD, Hu D, Litonjua AA, Fuemmeler BF, Huen K, Kere J, Kull I, Munthe-Kaas MC, Gehring U, Bustamante M, Saurel-Coubizolles MJ, Quraishi BM, Ren J, Tost J, Gonzalez JR, Peters MJ, Håberg SE, Xu Z, van Meurs JB, Gaunt TR, Kerkhof M, Corpeleijn E, Feinberg AP, Eng C, Baccarelli AA, Benjamin Neelon SE, Bradman A, Merid SK, Bergström A, Herceg Z, Hernandez-Vargas H, Brunekreef B, Pinart M, Heude B, Ewart S, Yao J, Lemonnier N, Franco OH, Wu MC, Hofman A, McArdle W, Van der Vlies P, Falahi F, Gillman MW, Barcellos LF, Kumar A, Wickman M, Guerra S, Charles MA, Holloway J, Auffray C, Tiemeier HW, Smith GD, Postma D, Hivert MF, Eskenazi B, Vrijheid M, Arshad H, Antó JM, Dehghan A, Karmaus W, Annesi-Maesano I, Sunyer J, Ghantous A, Pershagen G, Holland N, Murphy SK, DeMeo DL, Burchard EG, Ladd-Acosta C, Snieder H, Nystad W, Koppelman GH, Relton CL, Jaddoe VW, Wilcox A, Melén E, London SJ. (2016). DNA methylation in newborns and maternal smoking in pregnancy: genome-wide consortium meta-analysis. American Journal of Human Genetics (16) epub ahead of print  2016

• Daniel, CL, Emmons, K.M., Fasciano, K., Nevidjon, B., Fuemmeler, B.F., Demark-Wahnefried. (2015). Needs and lifestyle challenges of adolescent and young adults with cancer: summary of the Institute of Medicine Workshop. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 19(6): 675-81 PMCID: PMC4795831 2015

• * Lee, C.T., Clark, T.T., McClernon, F.J., Kollins, S.H., Fuemmeler, B.F., (2015). Racial/ethnic and gender differences in the association between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and smoking trajectories. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 148: 180-187. PMCID: PMC4437797 2015

• Fuemmeler, B.F., Stroo, M., Lee, C.T., Bazemore, S., Blocker, B., & Ostbye, T. (2015). Racial differences in obesity-related risk factors among 2-year old children born of overweight mothers. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 40(7): 649-656. PMCID: PMC4505075 2015

• Østbye, T., Stroo, M., Brouwer, R. J., Peterson, B. L., Eisenstein, E. L., Fuemmeler, B. F., Joyner, J., Gulley, L., & Dement, J. M. (2015). Steps to Health Employee Weight Management Randomized Control Trial: Short-Term Follow-Up Results. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 57(2), 188-195. 2015

• Vidal, A., Benjamin Neelon, S.E, Liu, Y., Tuli, AM, Fuemmeler, B.F., Hoyo, C., Murtha, A.P., Huang, Z., Schildkraut, J., Overcash, F., Kurtzberg, J., Jirtle, R., Iversen, E.S., & Murphy, S.K. (2014). Maternal stress, preterm birth, and DNA methylation at imprint regulatory sequences in humans. Genetics and Epigenetics, 6: 37-44. PMCID: PMC4251062 2014

• * Clark, T.T., Yang, C., McClernon, F.J, Fuemmeler, B.F., (2014) Racial differences in parenting style typologies and heavy episodic drinking trajectories. Health Psychology, 34: 697-708. PMCID: PMC25222086 2014

• Hoyo, C., Daltveit, A.J., Iversen, E., Benjamin Neelon, S.E., Fuemmeler, B.F., Schildkraut, J., Murtha, A.P., Overcash F., Vidal, A.C., Wang, F., Huang, Z., Kurtzberg, J., Sweewaldt, V., Forman, M., Jirtle, R.L., Murphy, S.K. (2014). Erythrocyte folate concentrations CpG methylation at genomically imprinted domains and birth weight in a multiethnic newborn cohort. Epigenetics, 9(8). 1120-30 PMCID: PMC4164497 2014