Faculty & Staff
Education
1978
Ph.D. (Biological Psychology)
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Tulsa, OK
Teaching
Dr. Pollak came to the College in 1981 following a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina Medical School.
Dr. Pollak coordinates and teaches parts of three courses in the undergraduate medical education curriculum: Medical Information Sciences and Health Promotion/Disease Prevention I and II. He is also an instructor in Complex Interviewing Skills, which is a component of the Primary Care Clinic Clerkship. He co-coordinates the Stress Management Program offered to first year medical students. In the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, he teaches the Biomedical Statistics course.
Research Interest
Dr. Pollak's research interests are in the field of psychophysiology. He has studied individual differences in cardiovascular reactivity in response to stressful tasks in the laboratory and during daily life. His current research activities focus on the effects of stressful life events on motor activity during daily life.
Publications
Stevens, V. M., Redwood, S. K., Neel, J. L., Bost, R. H., Van Winkle, N. W., & Pollak, M. H. (2004). Behavioral Science (Rapid Review Series). St. Louis: Mosby.
Pollak, M.H. (1991). Heart rate reactivity to laboratory tasks and ambulatory heart rate in daily life. Psychosomatic Medicine, 53, 25-35.
Pollak, M.H. (1994). Heart rate reactivity to laboratory tasks and in two daily life settings. Psychosomatic Medicine, 56, 271-276.
Stevens, V.M., Pollak, M.H., & Neel, J. (1998). Developing skills in promoting effective behavioral change. Academic Medicine, 73, 576-577.
