Dr. Frances Marcus Lewis is a professor in the Department of Family and Child Nursing, and the recipient of the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professorship. Her main research activities focus on the processes by which life threatening chronic illness impacts the family, including school age and adolescent children. The clinical prototype of greatest interest is maternal breast cancer.
Current research activities involve a randomized clinical trial of a psychoeducational intervention for single women with breast cancer; a dissemination study of educational material to enhance the couple's self care management of the wife's breast cancer; a methods development study using new instructional videos for couples experiencing breast cancer; and three pilot studies on enhancing the quality of the parent-child relationship during the acute phase of the mother's treatment. The third pilot study is designed to enhance the quality of life and immunocompetence of breast cancer survivors.
Dr. Lewis is a noted evaluation methodologist and an expert in health behavior theory. She is currently engaged as a technical consultant in the Ukraine for the training of physicians and nurses and the provision of behavioral interventions for women with breast cancer.
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