Eric Fisher

About

Eric Fisher joined the Carolina Law faculty in 2025 as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, where he teaches first-year writing. His research interests include legal writing and pedagogy. Prior to his academic career, Fisher worked for fourteen years in K-12 and higher education settings. He attended Carolina Law, serving as the Editor in Chief of the North Carolina Law Review, graduating with high honors, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was also the 2020 recipient of the Winston Crisp Leadership Award given by the law school's Student Bar Association. Before joining the faculty, Fisher interned for the Honorable James Wynn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and clerked for the Honorable Loretta Biggs in the Middle District of North Carolina. He has experience working as a corporate associate at Smith Anderson, focusing on mergers and acquisitions representing private equity and financial institutions. Fisher holds an M.Ed. from Clemson University and a B.A. from Furman University.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Endocrinology
• Gerontology
• Family medicine
• Political Science
• Pharmacology
• Psychiatry
• Physical therapy
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• Effect of Metformin and Lifestyle Interventions on Mortality in the Diabetes Prevention Program and Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study

  Diabetes Care · 2021 · 98 citations

  OBJECTIVE: To determine whether metformin or lifestyle modification can lower rates of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Diabetes Prevention Program and Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: From 1996 to 1999, 3,234 adults at high risk for type 2 diabetes were randomized to an intensive lifestyle intervention, masked metformin, or placebo. Placebo and lifestyle interventions stopped in 2001, and a modified lifestyle program was offered to everyone,…

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• The Impact of Physical Activity on the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence and Lessons Learned From the Diabetes Prevention Program, a Long-Standing Clinical Trial Incorporating Subjective and Objective Activity Measures

  Diabetes Care · 2020 · 72 citations

  OBJECTIVE: Across the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) follow-up, cumulative diabetes incidence remained lower in the lifestyle compared with the placebo and metformin randomized groups and could not be explained by weight. Collection of self-reported physical activity (PA) (yearly) with cross-sectional objective PA (in follow-up) allowed for examination of PA and its long-term impact on diabetes prevention. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: = 1,793). Mixed models determined PA differences across tr…

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• Diabetes in China: epidemiology, pathophysiology and multi-omics

  Nature Metabolism · 2025-01-14 · 68 citations

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• Associations among neighborhood poverty, perceived neighborhood environment, and depressed mood are mediated by physical activity, perceived individual control, and loneliness

  Health & Place · 2020 · 56 citations

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• Screen to Save: Results from NCI's Colorectal Cancer Outreach and Screening Initiative to Promote Awareness and Knowledge of Colorectal Cancer in Racial/Ethnic and Rural Populations

  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention · 2020 · 40 citations

  BACKGROUND: The Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD), NCI, implemented Screen to Save, NCI's Colorectal Cancer Outreach and Screening Initiative to promote awareness and knowledge of colorectal cancer in racial/ethnic and rural populations. METHODS: The initiative was implemented through CRCHD's National Outreach Network (NON). NON is a national network of Community Health Educators (CHE), aligned with NCI-designated Cancer Centers across the nation. In phases I and II, the CHEs fo…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HL043555

  NIH · $1.4M · 1993

• NIH Grant R01CA041703

  NIH · $873k · 1991

• NIH Grant T32HL007456

  NIH · $4.1M · 2017

Frequent coauthors

• Sarah D. Kowitt

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  45 shared

• Gretchen Youssef

  42 shared

• John D. Piette

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  41 shared

• Daniel Kent

  Harvard University

  37 shared

• Linda B. Haas

  34 shared

• Andrew S. Rhinehart

  Medtronic (United States)

  33 shared

• S. A. Sklaroff

  33 shared

• Lenita Hanson

  33 shared

Education

• B.A., Political Science

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1995

• Other, Law

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1998

• M.A., Public Policy

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2000

• Ph.D., Public Policy

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2003

Awards & honors

• 2020 Winston Crisp Leadership Award

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