Ellen Dornelas, Ph.D.

Ellen Dornelas, Ph.D. is the Director of Behavioral Health Programs, Preventive Cardiology at Hartford Hospital and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Dornelas is a health psychologist specializing in psychotherapy with cardiac patients and smoking cessation in special populations including: pregnant women, adolescents and medical patients. She is the author of the book, Psychotherapy with Cardiac Patients: Behavioral Cardiology in Practice published by the American Psychological Association. She has authored multiple research publications and book chapters on behavioral approaches to cardiac risk factor reduction. In collaboration with the MATCH Coalition, Urban Policy Strategies, and the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, she developed Latino No Fumes: Protégé su Salud, a smoking cessation program delivered in Spanish and offered in sites throughout Connecticut. Dr. Dornelas serves on the Tobacco and Health Trust Board for the State of Connecticut and is a volunteer for the American Heart Association.