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Dr. Heckman's research program goals are to develop, evaluate, and disseminate innovative interventions to improve cancer risk and risk-reduction behaviors. Her current focus is on primary prevention of skin cancer, and a second interest area is tobacco cessation. Dr. Heckman is a licensed counseling psychologist and runs FCCC's employee and family tobacco cessation program (ASAP: the All Smoking Aside Program), she is also a staff member in the patient Tobacco Treatment Program (TTP).

Dr. Heckman has several projects funded by the NCI and ACS:

• NCI K07 Skin Savvy Study: A Skin Cancer Prevention Intervention for young adults (completed 2010)
• NCI R03 Project INCITE: Identifying Novel Correlates of Indoor Tanning Experiences among young women
• NCI R21 Project BRITE: Biopsychosocial Relationships in Indoor Tanning Experiences among young women
• NCI R01: A Tailored Internet Intervention for Skin Cancer Risk Reduction among Young Adults (to begin in 2011)

1. Coups EJ, Geller AC, Weinstock MA, Heckman CJ, Manne, SL. Reply re. letter to the editor regarding prevalence and correlates of skin cancer screening among middle-aged and older white adults in the United States. Am J Med. Forthcoming, 2010.
2. Heckman CJ, Dykstra JL, Collins BN. Substance-related knowledge, attitude, and behavior among college students: opportunities for health education. Health Educ J. Forthcoming. NIHMSID: NIHMS211929.
3. Heckman CJ, Manne SL, Kloss JD, Bass SB, Collins BN, Lessin SR. Beliefs and intentions for skin protection and exposure. Am J Health Behav. Forthcoming. NIHMSID: NIHMS197846.
4. Heckman CJ, Egleston BL, Hofmann, MT. Efficacy of motivational interviewing for smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Tob Control. 2010 Jul 30. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed
5. Egleston BL, Cropsey K, Lazev AB, Heckman CJ. A tutorial on principal stratification-based sensitivity analysis: application to smoking cessation studies. Clin Trials. 2010;7(3):286–298. Epub 2010 Apr 27. PubMed
6. Coups EJ, Geller AC, Weinstock MA, Heckman CJ, Manne SL. Prevalence and correlates of skin cancer screening among middle-aged and older white adults in the United States. Am Jof Med. 2010 May;123(5):439-45. PubMed
7. Fang CF, Coups EJ, Heckman CJ. Behavioral correlates of HPV vaccine acceptability in the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Feb;19(2):319-26. PubMed
8. Brown PH, Viner JL, Brewster A, Heckman CJ, Hursting S, Johnson K, Mao JT. Conference Report: Seventh Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. Cancer Prev Res. 2009 Nov;2(11):995-8. PubMed
9. Coups EJ, Dhingra LK, Heckman CJ, & Manne SL. Receipt of provider advice for smoking cessation and use of smoking cessation treatments among cancer survivors. J Gen Intern Med. 2009 Nov;24 Suppl 2:S480–6. PubMed
10. Ingersoll KS, Cropsey KL, Heckman CJ. A test of motivational plus nicotine replacement interventions for HIV positive smokers. AIDS Behav. 2009 Jun;13(3):545-54. Epub 2007 Dec 8. PubMed
11. Heckman CJ, Wilson DB, Ingersoll KS. The influence of appearance, health, and future orientations on tanning behavior. Am J Health Behav. 2009 May-Jun;33(3):238-43. PubMed
12. Daniel LC, Heckman CJ, Kloss JD, Manne SL. Comparing alternate methods of measuring skin color and damage. Cancer Causes Control. 2009 Apr;20(3):313-21. Epub 2008 Oct 18. PubMed