Linda Ellen Carlson

Dr. Carlson is the holder of the Enbridge Endowed Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology, an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Health Scholar award, and is Associate Professor in Psychosocial Oncology in the Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Psychology. She is Director of Research and works as a Clinical Psychologist at the Department of Psychosocial Resources at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. Dr. Carlson trained as a Clinical Health Psychologist at McGill University in Montreal, researching the area of psychoneuroendocrinology. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, sponsored by a Terry Fox Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute of Canada/Canadian Cancer Society and subsequently received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award from 2002-2007. Dr. Carlson received the Kawano New Investigator Award from the International Psycho-Oncology Society in 2006, and the William E. Rawls Prize in cancer control from the National Cancer Institute of Canada/Canadian Cancer Society in 2007.

Dr. Carlson's current research interests are focused in the areas of computerized distress screening, psychoneuroimmunology, integrative oncology and complementary and alternative medicine, providing and evaluating interventions for cancer patients such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), yoga, Reiki, acupuncture, exercise, and smoking cessation. She has published over 80 book chapters and research papers in peer-reviewed journals, holds several millions of dollars in grant funding and regularly presents her work at international conferences.

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Beck, A.M., Robinson, J.W. & Carlson, L.E. (2009). Sexual intimacy in heterosexual couples after prostate cancer: What we know and what we still need to learn. Urologic Oncology, 27, 137-143.

Garland, S.N., Carlson, L.E., Marr, H., & Simpson, S. (2009). Recruitment and retention of palliative care patients and their partners participating in a longitudinal evaluation of a psychosocial retreat program. Palliative and Supportive Care, 7, 49-56.

Shapiro, S.L. & Carlson, L.E. (2009). The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness Into Psychology and the Helping Professions. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Carlson, L.E., Labelle, L., Garland, S.N., Hutchins, M.L., & Birnie, K. (2008). Mindfulness-based interventions in oncology. In F. Didonna (Ed.), Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness (pp. 383-405). New York, NY: Springer.

Chunlestskul, K., Carlson, L.E., Koopmans, J.P., & Angen, M. (2008). Lived experiences of Canadian women with metastatic breast cancer in preparation for their death: A qualitative study. Part I - Preparations and Consequences. Journal of Palliative Care, 24(1), 5-15.

Chunlestskul, K., Carlson, L.E., Koopmans, J.P., & Angen, M. (2008). Lived experiences of Canadian women with metastatic breast cancer in preparation for their death: A qualitative study. Part II - Enabling and Inhibiting Factors; the Paradox of Death Preparation. Journal of Palliative Care, 24(1), 16-25.

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