Janice Kiecolt-Glaser is S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine and Distinguished University Professor at the

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. She is a clinical health psychologist specializing in

psychoneuroimmunology Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), also referred to as psychoendoneuroimmunology (PENI) or psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology (PNEI), is the study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body. It is ...

and Director of the Ohio State Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research. Her research on

stress Stress may refer to: Science and medicine * Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition * Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase ...

associated with

caregiving A caregiver or carer is a paid or unpaid member of a person's social network who helps them with activities of daily living. Since they have no specific professional training, they are often described as informal caregivers. Caregivers most commo ...

and marital relationships has been featured in

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, and many other news outlets. Kiecolt-Glaser was a 2018 recipient of the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

(APA) Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Her award citation acknowledged her "outstanding contributions to our understanding of the roles of psychological and social factors in endocrine, immune, and metabolic responses." Other notable awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (2018) and membership in the

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(2001). She is a regular contributor to U.S. News & World Report.

Biography

Kiecolt-Glaser, who has written more than 250 publications (often in collaboration with her late husband,

virologist Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their ...

Ronald Glaser), is a

clinical psychologist Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

working in the field of

. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the

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. She went on to complete her PhD in psychology at the

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in 1974, under the supervision of Leonard I. Jacobson. Kiecolt-Glaser has served on eleven journal's editorial boards and she has been recognized for her contributions to

Health Psychology Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and culture, cultural factors contribute to physical health ...

twice. She led the study at the

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Wexner Medical Center that showed both

and

diets The Low Countries comprise the coastal Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta region in Western Europe, whose definition usually includes the modern countries of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Both Belgium and the Netherlands derived their ...

high in saturated fat lead to

inflammation Inflammation (from la, wikt:en:inflammatio#Latin, inflammatio) is part of the complex biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or Irritation, irritants, and is a protective response involving im ...

. Her work focuses on ways stress and depression influence the

immune In biology, immunity is the capability of multicellular organisms to resist harmful microorganisms. Immunity involves both specific and nonspecific components. The nonspecific components act as barriers or eliminators of a wide range of pathogens ...

and

endocrine system The endocrine system is a messenger system comprising feedback loops of the hormones released by internal glands of an organism directly into the circulatory system, regulating distant target organs. In vertebrates, the hypothalamus is the neu ...

and includes research on the relationship between

physical fitness Physical fitness is a state of health and well-being and, more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of Outline of sports, sports, occupations and daily activities. Physical fitness is generally achieved through proper nutrition, moderate ...

and inflammation, a reliable predictor of all-cause

mortality Mortality is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality. Mortality may also refer to: * Fish mortality, a parameter used in fisheries population dynamics to account for the loss of fish in a fish stock throug ...

in older adults. Her research has expanded into the world of depression and stressors like daily conflicts,

marital Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between t ...

problems and major

depressive disorders A mood disorder, also known as an affective disorder, is any of a group of conditions of mental and behavioral disorder where a disturbance in the person's mood is the main underlying feature. The classification is in the ''Diagnostic and Stat ...

. Outside of academia, Kiecolt-Glaser has also written two medical-mystery novels; Detecting Lies (1997) and Unconscious Truths: A Dr. Haley McAlister Mystery (1998).

Representative Papers

* Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Dura, J. R., Speicher, C. E., Trask, O. J., & Glaser, R. (1991). Spousal caregivers of dementia victims: longitudinal changes in immunity and health. ''Psychosomatic Medicine'', ''53''(4), 345–362. * Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Fisher, L. D., Ogrocki, P., Stout, J. C., Speicher, C. E., & Glaser, R. (1987). Marital quality, marital disruption, and immune function. ''Psychosomatic Medicine'', ''49''(1), 13–34. * Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Marucha, P. T., Mercado, A. M., Malarkey, W. B., & Glaser, R. (1995). Slowing of wound healing by psychological stress. ''The Lancet'', ''346''(8984), 1194–1196. * Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., McGuire, L., Robles, T. F., & Glaser, R. (2002). Emotions, morbidity, and mortality: new perspectives from psychoneuroimmunology. ''Annual Review of Psychology'', ''53''(1), 83–107. * Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., & Newton, T. L. (2001). Marriage and health: his and hers. ''Psychological Bulletin'', ''127''(4), 472–503. * Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Preacher, K. J., MacCallum, R. C., Atkinson, C., Malarkey, W. B., & Glaser, R. (2003). Chronic stress and age-related increases in the proinflammatory cytokine IL-6. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'', ''100''(15), 9090–9095.

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Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
Ohio State University
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD
Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research and The Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Grantee: Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D.

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