Megan Ware

Megan Ware is an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation. She joined the faculty at the University of North Texas in Fall of 2024. Dr. Ware received her B.S. degree in Health and Human Peformance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2016), and her M.S. (2018) and Ph.D. (2021) degrees from the University of Georgia. She completed an NCI T32 post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Her research focuses fall in the field of sport, exercise, and health psychology. Specifically, Dr. Ware's research focuses on developing a better understanding of effective or emotional factors influencing physical activity behavior and exercise engagement in populations that experience chronic disease and disability. She employs quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies in small and large samples to deeply explore this research interest. Through her work, Dr. Ware seeks to develop intervention strategies to increase physical activity participation and increase quality of life of population that experience chronic disease and disability.

• Ware, M., De La Cruz, A., Dong, Q., Shelton, K., Brinkman, T., Huang, I., Webster, R., Potter, B., Krull, K., Mirzaei, S., Ehrhardt, M., Hudson, M., Armstrong, G., Ness, K. Characterization of Patient Activation Among Childhood Cancer Survivors in the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort (SJLIFE). (2024) Manuscript under review in Cancers.

• Ware, M., Goodenough C., Wogksch, M., Krull, K., Brinkman, T., Hebert, J., Willard, V., Webster, R., Ehrhardt, M., Mirzaei, S., Armstrong, G., Hudson, M., Ness, K. Associations between Perceived Cancer Impact and Measures of Health Behavior in Survivors of Childhood Cancer. (2024) Accepted for publication in Journal of Cancer Survivorship.

• Ware, M., Delaney, A., Krull, K., Brinkman, T., Armstrong, G., Wilson, C., Mulrooney, D., Wang, Z., Lanctot, J., Krull, M., Partin, R., Shelton, K., Srivastava, K., Hudson, M., Robison, L., Ness, K. Cancer-Related Worry as a Predictor of 5-Year physical Activity Level in Childhood Cancer Survivors. (2023) Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise (MSSE). Doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003195, April 24, 2023.

• Ware ME, Kadan-Lottick NS, Devidas M, Terrell S, Chow EJ, Ehrhardt MJ, Hardy KK, Chemaitilly W, Hein W, Winick N, Teachey D, Esbenshade A, Armenian SH, Partin RE, Ness KK. Design and methods of a randomized web-based physical activity intervention among children with cancer: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 Nov;122:106961. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106961. Epub 2022 Oct 10. PMID: 36228982; PMCID: PMC9669240.

• Ware M, O'Connor P, Bub K, Backus D, McCully K. Investigating Relationships Among Interoceptive Awareness, Emotional Susceptibility, and Fatigue in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis. Int J MS Care. 2023 Mar-Apr;25(2):75-81. doi: 10.7224/1537-2073.2022-007. Epub 2022 Sep 13. PMID: 36923579; PMCID: PMC10010111.

• Ware M, O'Connor P, Bub K, Backus D, McCully K. The role of worry in exercise and physical activity behavior of people with multiple sclerosis. Health Psychol Behav Med. 2022 Aug 18;10(1):786-805. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2022.2112197. PMID: 36016871; PMCID: PMC9397454.

• Ware ME, McCully KK. Impact of marriage on physical activity behavior in women with multiple sclerosis. Disabil Rehabil. 2022 Oct;44(20):5941-5949. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2021.1953622. Epub 2021 Jul 24. PMID: 34308724.