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Co-Investigator - Core C: Psychosocial and Health Behavior Assessment
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Email: cyranowskijm@upmc.edu
Phone: 412-246-5525
Fax: 412-246-5530

Research Program
Dr. Cyranowski’s research focuses on mechanisms impacting depression treatment outcome,
psychosocial treatment of comorbid depression and anxiety, and physiologic mechanisms
underlying stress-depression relationships, with a special emphasis on examining biobehavioral
mechanisms of depression in women.  She is currently working to develop enhanced models of
interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depressed patients with lifetime panic and anxiety
symptoms; on the assessment of metabolic, neuroendocrine and immune function within
depressed samples; on the development of depression treatment trials that integrate physiologic
stress assessment paradigms; and on the examination of complex relationships among
depression, stress, and interpersonal function among depressed and never-depressed women.
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Leadership Positions and Honors
Member, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society
Member, Society of Biological Psychiatry
Member, American Psychosomatic Society Program Committee
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Junior Faculty Scholars Program, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Executive Committee, WPIC Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program

Representative Publications 
Cyranowski JM, Frank E, Young E, Shear MK.  Adolescent onset of the gender difference
in lifetime rates of major depression: A theoretical model.  Archives of General Psychiatry
57:21-27, 2000.
Cyranowski JM, Frank E, Winter E, Rucci P, Novick D, Pilkonis P, Houck P, Maccarelli L,
Kupfer DJ: Personality pathology and outcome in recurrently depressed women over two
years of maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy.  Psychological Medicine 34:659-669, 2004.
Cyranowski JM, Frank E, Shear MK, Swartz H, Fagiolini A, Scott J, Kupfer DJ. Interpersonal
psychotherapy for depression with panic-spectrum symptoms (IPT-PS): A pilot study.
Depression and Anxiety 21:140-142, 2005.
Cyranowski JM, Marsland AL, Bromberger JT, Whiteside TL, Chang Y, Matthews KA.
Depressive symptoms and production of proinflammatory cytokines by peripheral blood
mononuclear cells stimulated in vitro.  Brain, Behav Immun 21:229-237, 2007.View Adobe .pdf File . . .
Troxel WM, Cyranowski JM, Hall M, Frank E, Buysse DJ.  Attachment anxiety,
relationship contrext, and sleep in women with recurrent major depression.
Psychosom Med 69:692-699, 2007.View Adobe .pdf File . . .
  Revised 9/5/2007  la/tc

 

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