Samuel F. Sears

Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Cardiovascular Sciences | Division Chief of Innovation and Research | Associate Director of the ECU Cardiology Fellowship

East Carolina Heart Institute

Speaker Sessions

September 06, 2024 | 02:45 PM (EDT) - 03:35 PM (EDT)

About Samuel F. Sears, Ph.D., ABPP

Samuel F. Sears, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Cardiovascular Sciences at East Carolina University.

Dr. Sears is the Division Chief of Innovation and Research at the East Carolina Heart Institute. He also serves as Associate Director of the ECU Cardiology Fellowship.

Dr. Sears has published over 200 articles in the medicine and psychology research literatures and has well over 12, 000 citations. In 2021, Expertscape.com named Dr. Sears one of the top 50 experts/ prolific authors in the world on implantable defibrillators over the last 10 years amongst the 27,847 authors on the topic.

Dr. Sears is a Board-Certified clinical health psychologist and continues to practice cardiac psychology at the East Carolina Heart Institute. Dr. Sears received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (1995) in clinical health psychology from the University of Florida.