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Biographical Sketch
Arthur J. Garvey, Ph.D., was born in Worcester, MA. He attended the State College at Worcester, MA as an undergraduate, and received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 1972 in Educational Psychology and Statistics. He has been on the faculty of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine since 1980.
Dr. Garvey began his research career with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 1972, and was Director of Social Epidemiology at the VA-sponsored Normative Aging Study (NAS) from 1980-1996. He worked for 25 years on the prospective follow-up of NAS participants, and on the analysis of medical and dental data collected on the 2,280 NAS research participants. He has also been involved in the study of psychosocial and biomedical aspects of smoking for the past 33 years.
Dr. Garvey was Principal Investigator (PI) of a study of nicotine gum treatment efficacy funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) during the period 1991-1996, and the PI for a study involving individualized nicotine-replacement treatment funded by NIDA during the period 2000-2005. He is currently the PI of a new study of front-loaded counseling as a treatment for addicted smokers funded by NIDA that is investigating the efficacy of early, relapse-sensitive counseling vs. standard weekly counseling in improving smoking cessation outcomes.
Clinical / Academic / Research Interests
Dr. Garvey has made major contributions to efforts in the field of health promotion and disease prevention. His interests are in the development of new treatments to help addicted smokers quit smoking and maintain permanent smoking abstinence. He has published many research papers and made numerous scientific presentations worldwide. He has also served on National Institutes of Health research advisory panels, and regularly reviews research papers being considered for publication in scientific journals.
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