Distinguished University Professor

Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology

2005
American Psychosomatic Society
For outstanding contributions to the study of the impact of social behavior on physiology

Patricia R. Barchas Award

S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine

2003
American Psychological Association, Toronto

Master Lecture

National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (Elected Member)

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (Advisory Council)

National Research Council of the National Academies (Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (Fellow)

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Professor Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, the Director of The Ohio State Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, holds the S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine in The Ohio State University College of Medicine; she also holds the title of Distinguished University Professor. Working in the area of psychoneuroimmunology, she has authored more than 250 articles, chapters, and books. Her studies have demonstrated important health consequences of stress, including slower wound healing and impaired vaccine responses; she has also shown that chronic stress substantially accelerates age-related changes in inflammation which is linked to some cancers, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, and frailty and function decline.  In addition, her work has focused on how personal relationships influence immune and endocrine function, and health. Her more recent work has demonstrated that stress and depression can alter metabolic and inflammatory responses to high-fat meals in ways that promote weight gain. 

Most notable among her honors is her membership in the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, she is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the American Psychological Association; she has received the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association's Division of Health Psychology twice, as well as the Developmental Health Psychology Award from the Divisions of Health Psychology and Adult Development and Aging. She is a past President of the Division of Health Psychology. The Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society gave her the Norman Cousins Award, and the American Psychosomatic Society gave her the Patricia A. Barchas award for outstanding contributions to the study of the impact of social behavior on physiology.  Her current Institute for Scientific Information h‐index of 72 (indexed under KiecoltGlaser and Kiecolt-Glaser) and her Google Scholar h‐index of 101 reflect the very high impact of her work. She is currently a member of the NCCIH Advisory Council and she has served on the editorial boards of 10 professional journals. In 2008, she received The Ohio State University's highest honor for scholars, appointment as a Distinguished University Professor.

Psychoneuroimmunology

Behavioral immunology

Close relationships, inflammation, and health

Stress and inflammation in cancer survivors

Behavioral influences on metabolism following high-fat meals

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Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research | College of Medicine

The WexTalks at WexMed Live were engaging presentations of medical discoveries made by physicians and scientists of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. We were honored to present this first of many WexTalks on Friday, Sept. 30 on the Oval of The Ohio State University to celebrate philanthropy’s power to accelerate innovation that changes lives.

WexMed Live: Jan Kiecolt Glaser

See a full description of Janice's proposal and all the other finalists at: http://ubiome.com/pages/academic-grant

Ubiome Grant Finalist - Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD; Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center

Leroy Hood, MD, PhD; President, Institute for Systems Biology

Bruce McEwen, PhD; Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Director, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University

Plenary Q&amp;A: Power of Preventive Medicine

“How Stress Kills — The Damage and Some Remedies”

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Ohio State University of Medicine

2017 Mautner Memorial Lecture: "How Stress Kills"

Feeling a bit stressed? If so, you are not alone. Stress is very much a part of being human; even animals experience stress. A little stress can be a good thing, but how can you tell the good from the bad, and too little from too much? On Sep. 18, 2014, at the AAAS Auditorium in Washington, DC, experts tackled these questions and more. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD, a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and David Shurtleff, PhD, the Deputy Director of the National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine, spoke about the scientific and practical to help us better understand what our mind and body experience—good and bad—when we encounter stressful situations. They talked about various “cures,” “treatments,” and coping mechanisms for dealing with stress and the extent to which they have been subjected to rigorous scientific research and which ones stand out among the others.

Speakers:

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
Ohio State University College of Medicine

David Shurtleff, PhD
Deputy Director
National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health

When and where?
Sept. 18, 2014
5:30 p.m. EDT
AAAS Auditorium
1200 New York Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20005

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