Marissa Carraway

Marissa Carraway is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University. As Director of Behavioral Medicine, she integrates psychological principles into primary care through teaching, mentoring, and program development.

• Education: PhD and BA from East Carolina University
• Primary Roles: Behavioral Medicine Director, Integrated Care Educator

Her research focuses on health behavior change and integrated primary care for patients with chronic medical conditions. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in integrated care at Cherokee Health Systems before returning to ECU to enhance their behavioral medicine program.

Recent publications explore behavioral health training, clinician-patient relationships, and immersion treatment models for obesity. While not explicitly listing awards, her HRSA-funded work demonstrates institutional recognition.

She mentors medical residents, students, and psychology doctoral candidates in integrated care settings, and is open to advising doctoral students in the current academic year.