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James D. Sargent, MD

Title(s)
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Professor of Community and Family Medicine
Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Norris Cotton Cancer Center

Department(s)
Pediatrics
Biomedical Data Science
Community and Family Medicine

Education
Tufts University School of Medicine, MD 1984
University of Oregon, BS 1979

Programs
Children's Hospital At Dartmouth
Dartmouth Cancer Center
Quantitative Biomedical Sciences
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Websites
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/koop/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q3nQg3wAAAAJ&hl=en

Contact Information

Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Rubin 8
Lebanon NH 03756

Office: DHMC Lebanon, NH
Phone: 603-653-9025
Email: James.D.Sargent@Dartmouth.edu

Assistant: Jennifer Hebb
Asst. Phone: 603-653-6036
Asst. Email: Jennifer.J.Hebb@dartmouth.edu


Professional Interests

Adolescent Risk Behaviors
Media Influences
Prevention Studies
Tobacco Control
Early Onset Alcohol Use

Courses Taught

Undergraduates Course Psych 53
Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Corporate and Environmental Influences
Psychological and Brain Sciences

Biography

My science aims to better understand how media and marketing influence health behaviors. For 20 years, I have conducted population based studies of adolescents and young adults, developing survey techniques to capture media and marketing exposures and examining their association with substance use (tobacco and alcohol), aggression and violence, and risky sexual practices. The translational aim of the research is to influence media and marketing exposures during childhood and adolescence by developing individual interventions and influencing policies.


Selected Publications

 

Are online alcohol marketing restrictions warranted?
Sargent JD
Lancet Public Health. 2025 Nov;10(11):e891-e892. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00249-X.
PMID: 41162118

An Examination of Sex Differences and Cigarette Smoking as Predictors of COPD Prevalence and Incidence in Older US Adults.
Ozga JE, Steinberg AW, Sargent JD, Tang Z, Stanton CA, Paulin LM
Nicotine Tob Res. 2025 Oct 22;27(11):1975-1984. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaf162.
PMID: 40913563

Childhood cigarette smoking is associated with health-related quality of life in older US adults.
Ozga JE, Sargent JD, Steinberg AW, Tang Z, Stanton CA, Paulin LM
Tob Induc Dis. 2025;23 doi: 10.18332/tid/204009. Epub 2025 Jul 23.
PMID: 40704128

Rural-Urban Patterns in Household Rules Limiting Combustible Tobacco, Noncombustible Tobacco, and E-Cigarette Use.
Steinberg AW, Ozga JE, Tang Z, Stanton CA, Sargent JD, Paulin LM
Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Jun 30; doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202504-419OC. Epub 2025 Jun 30.
PMID: 40587370

Gender, tobacco and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: analysis of the 2020 National Health Interview Survey.
Steinberg AW, Ozga JE, Tang Z, Stanton CA, Sargent JD, Paulin LM
BMJ Open Respir Res. 2025 May 8;12(1) doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2024-002462. Epub 2025 May 8.
PMID: 40340913

Correction to: Association of tobacco product use with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prevalence and incidence in waves 1 through 5 (2013-2019) of the population assessment of tobacco and health (PATH) study.
Paulin LM, Halenar MJ, Edwards KC, Lauten K, Stanton CA, Taylor K, Hatsukami D, Hyland A, MacKenzie T, Mahoney MC, Niaura R, Trinidad D, Blanco C, Compton WM, Gardner LD, Kimmel HL, Lauterstein D, Marshall D, Sargent JD
Respir Res. 2025 Mar 8;26(1):93. doi: 10.1186/s12931-025-03166-0. Epub 2025 Mar 8.
PMID: 40057741

Functionally important respiratory symptoms and continued cigarette use versus e-cigarette switching: population assessment of tobacco and health study waves 2-6.
Sargent JD, Lauten K, Edwards KC, Tanski SE, MacKenzie TA, Paulin LM, Brunette MF, Goniewicz ML, Malasky A, Stark D, de Moura FB, Griffin H, Nguyen KH, Backlund E, Kimmel HL, Kingsbury JH, Ozga JE, Cummings KM, Hyland A
EClinicalMedicine. 2025 Jan;79:102951. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102951. Epub 2024 Dec 19.
PMID: 39968205

Association of e-cigarette and cigarette use with self-reported chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a multivariable analysis of a large United States data set.
Burns AJ, Steinberg AW, Sargent JD, Ozga JE, Tang Z, Stanton CA, Paulin LM
Respir Res. 2025 Feb 7;26(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s12931-024-03087-4. Epub 2025 Feb 7.
PMID: 39920672

Comprehensive Assessment of Lifetime Cigarette Smoking and Its Association with Health-Related Quality of Life among Older US Adults-A Cross-sectional Study.
Sargent JD, Ozga JE, Stanton CA, Tang Z, Paulin LM
Res Sq. 2024 Nov 17; pii: rs.3.rs-5319716. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5319716/v1. Epub 2024 Nov 17.
PMID: 39606494

Childhood Cigarette Smoking and Risk of COPD in Older United States Adults: A Nationally Representative Replication Study.
Ozga JE, Sargent JD, Steinberg AW, Tang Z, Stanton CA, Paulin LM
Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2024 Nov 22;11(6):549-557. doi: 10.15326/jcopdf.2024.0514.
PMID: 39413254

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