Christi Patten

Consultant, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology at Mayo Clinic

Biography

Christi A. Patten, Ph.D., focuses on developing novel, theory-based behavioral interventions for tobacco cessation. Her focus areas include: 

  • Tobacco cessation interventions for adolescents and smokers with psychiatric comorbidity
  • Social support and smoking cessation
  • Community-based participatory research to reduce health disparities among underserved populations
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded intervention programs to reduce tobacco disparities among Alaska Native adolescents and pregnant women