Janet Thomas, Ph.D., L.P.
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Undergraduate Degree: Psychology, BA, University of California-Riverside Graduate
San Diego State University, MSW, Clinical Social Work
Louisiana State University, MA and Ph. D., Clinical Psychology with emphasis in Behavioral Medicine Internship
University of California at San Diego and San Diego State University Consortium, Health Psychology Fellowship
Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
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Assistant Professor of MedicineDr. Thomas completed her Ph.D. training in clinical psychology, with an emphasis on behavioral medicine at Louisiana State University. She later completed internship training in Health Psychology at the University of California, San Diego and a post-doctoral research fellowship in tobacco research at the Nicotine Dependence Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Minnesota, she was an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. There she taught Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to incoming medical students and served as a preceptor to students in the Master’s in Public Health program. Although primarily a behavioral scientist, Dr. Thomas is also a licensed psychologist specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Her primary research interests targets tobacco control efforts among underserved populations including African American, Native American and East African communities. Her current research uses behavioral interventions to decrease smoking among young adult college students using contingency management approaches or “Quit and Win” smoking cessation contests and utilizing biomarker feedback to promote smoke free homes to decrease child exposure to secondhand smoke.
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