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Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh

Email: brombergerjt@upmc.edu
Phone: 412-246-5953
Fax: 412-246-5333

Assistant: Deana D’Atri, datridm@upmc.edu
412-246-5959 (Phone), 412-246-5955 (Fax) 

Research Program
Dr. Bromberger’s work focuses on the relationship between physical and mental health in
middle-aged women and the mechanisms that might explain the association between depression
and cardiovascular disease in particular.  She is currently studying the influence of psychosocial
factors, the menopausal transition, and reproductive hormonal alterations on the development of
depression and anxiety in midlife; the impact of lifetime depression and anxiety disorders on
health and functioning during the menopausal transition and as women age; and the long-term
patterns of the course of depression during and after the transition.
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Representative Publications 
Bromberger JT:  A psychosocial understanding of depression in women: For the primary care
physician.  J Am Med Women’s Assoc 53(Summer):198-206, 2004.
Bromberger JT, Harlow SD, Avis NE, Kravitz HM, Cordal A: Racial/ethnic differences in the
prevalence of elevated depressive symptoms in midlife women: The Study of Women’s Health
Across the Nation (SWAN).  Am J Pub Health 94:1378-1385, 2004.
Agatisa PK, Matthews KA, Bromberger JT, Edmundowicz D, Chang YF, Sutton-Tyrrell K:
Coronary and aortic calcification in women with a history of major depression.  Arch Intern
Med 165:1229-1236, 2005. 
Bromberger JT, Kravitz HM, Wei HL, Brown C, Youk A, Cordal A, Powell L, Matthews KA
et al.:  History of depression and women’s current health and functioning in midlife.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 27:200-208, 2005.
Kravitz HM, Janssen I, Santoro N, Bromberger JT, Schocken M, Everson-Rose S, Karavolos K,
Powell L:  Relationship of day-to-day reproductive hormone levels to sleep in midlife women.
Arch Intern Med 165:2370-2376, 2005.
  Revised 5/23/2006  la/tc

 

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