James Gangwisch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Research Scientist,
New York State Psychiatric Institute

James Gangwisch, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has over ten years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist in inpatient, outpatient, and research psychiatric settings. He received his Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where he was funded by an NIMH T32 Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Services Research and his dissertation focused on the relationship between major depressive disorder and risk factors for insulin resistance. He completed a 3-year NIHM T32 Post-doctoral Fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry.

His research has focused on the relationship between sleep duration and diseases associated with the metabolic syndrome – obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. The study that he led linking inadequate sleep to obesity helped motivate the National Institutes of Health – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to release a request for proposals on “The Mechanisms Linking Short Sleep Duration and Risk of Obesity or Overweight”. He led the first study to show an association between short sleep duration and hypertension incidence (American Heart Association journal Hypertension). Dr. Gangwisch serves as a peer reviewer for numerous medical journals.

Education and Training

Undergraduate:  University of Cincinnati, B.B.A., 1985-1988
Doctoral Degree:  Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Ph.D., 1999-2003
Fellowship:  Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 2003-2006
Post-Graduate:  The Ohio State University, M.B.A., 1991-1993
Post-Graduate:  University of Michigan, M.S.W., 1993-1995

Specialties

• Epidemiology of Sleep

Contact information

Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute
Room 2304  Unit/Box:74
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY   10032

Phone: 212-543-6552
Fax: 212-543-6660
jeg64@columbia.edu

Publications

1. Gangwisch JE, Malaspina D, Boden-Albala B, Heymsfield SB: Inadequate sleep as a risk factor for obesity: Analyses of the NHANES I.  SLEEP  2005;28: 1217-1220

2. Gangwisch JE, Heymsfield SB, Boden-Albala B, Buijs RM, Kreier F, Pickering TG, Rundle AG, Zammit GK, Malaspina D: Short sleep duration as a risk factor for hypertension: Analyses of the first national health and nutrition examination survey.  Hypertension  2006;47: 833-839

3. Gangwisch JE, Heymsfield SB, Boden-Albala B, Buijs RM, Kreier F, Pickering TG, Rundle AG, Zammit GK, Malaspina D: Sleep duration as a risk factor for diabetes incidence in a large
U.S. sample.  SLEEP  2007;30: 1667-1673

4. Gangwisch JE, Heymsfield SB, Boden-Albala B, Buijs RM, Kreier F, Opler MG, Pickering TG, Rundle AG, Zammit GK, Malaspina D: Sleep duration associated with mortality in elderly, but not middle-aged adults in a large U.S. sample.  SLEEP  2008;31: 1087-1096