CURRICULUM VITAE
Jill M. Cyranowski, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Name: Jill M. Cyranowski, Ph.D. Birth Date: 10/18/68
Home Address: 2506 Riva Ridge Ct Birth Place: Toledo, Ohio
Wexford PA 15090
Home Phone: (724) 935-0072 Citizenship: USA
Business Address: Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic E-Mail:
3811 O’Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
Business Phone: (412) 246-5525 Business Fax: (412) 246-5520
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
UNDERGRADUATE:
1991 The University of Dayton Bachelor of Arts Psychology
Dayton, OH Minors: Women’s Studies, English
GRADUATE:
1993 The Ohio State University Master of Science Clinical Psychology
Columbus, OH Advisor: Barbara L. Andersen, Ph.D.
1997 The Ohio State University Doctor of Philosophy Clinical Psychology
Advisor: Barbara L. Andersen, Ph.D.
POSTGRADUATE:
1996 – 1997 Western Psychiatric Institute Clinical Intern APS-Accredited Clinical Psychology
and Clinic Internship Program
Pittsburgh, PA Director: Paul Pilkonis, Ph.D.
1997 – 1999 Western Psychiatric Institute Research Fellow NIMH Postdoctoral Research
and Clinic Fellowship
Pittsburgh, PA Director: Paul Pilkonis, Ph.D.
Mentor: Ellen Frank, Ph.D.
APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS
ACADEMIC
1999 – 2001 Research Instructor in Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
2001 – 2011 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
2003 – 2011 Assistant Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
2008 – present Director, WPIC Clinical Psychology Department of Psychiatry
Internship Training Program Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
2011 – present Associate Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
2011 – present Associate Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
NON-ACADEMIC
1999 – present University of Pittsburgh Physicians (UPP) University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA
1999 – present Intermediate Health Care Providers Staff Department of Psychiatry
UPMC Presbyterian
CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE
1998 – present Licensed Psychologist, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
PS-008854-L
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
1991 - present American Psychological Association
1991 - present American Psychological Society
1993 - present Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
1994 - present Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
1999 - present American Association for the Advancement of Science
2003 - present Member, Society of Biological Psychiatry
2004 - present Member, American Psychosomatic Society
HONORS AND AWARDS
1987 - 1991 National Merit Scholar
1987 - 1991 University of Dayton President’s Scholarship
1991 Award for Excellence to the Outstanding Student in Psychology
1991 Graduated Summa Cum Laude, University Honors Program, University of Dayton
1999 – 2001 Junior Faculty Scholars program, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles
1. Andersen BL, Cyranowski JM. Women’s sexual self schemas. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 67:1079-1100, 1994.
2. Andersen BL, Woods X, Cyranowski JM. Sexual self schema and sexual morbidity following cancer. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 3:165-170, 1994.
3. Andersen BL, Cyranowski JM. Women’s sexuality: Behaviors, responses and individual differences. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology 63:891-906, 1995.
4. Cyranowski JM, Andersen BL. Schemas, sexuality, and romantic attachment. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 74:1364-1379, 1998.
5. Andersen BL, Cyranowski JM, Espindle D. Men’s sexual self-schemas. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 76:645-661, 1999.
6. Cyranowski JM, Aarestad SL, Andersen BL. The role of sexual self-schemas in a diatheses-stress model of sexual dysfunction. Applied & Preventive Psychology 8:217-228, 1999.
7. 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.
8. Frank E, Shear MK, Rucci P, Cyranowski JM, Endicott J, Fagiolini A, Grochocinski V, Houck P, Kupfer DJ, Maser JD, Cassano GB. Influence of panic-agoraphobic spectrum symptoms on treatment response in patients with recurrent major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry 157:1101-1107, 2000.
9. Cyranowski JM, Andersen BL. Evidence of self-schematic cognitive processing in women with alternative sexual self-views. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology 19:519-543, 2000.
10. Feske U, Shear K, Anderson B, Cyranowski JM, Strassburger M, Matty M, Luther J, Frank E. Comparison of severe life stress in depressed mothers and non-mothers: Do children matter? Depression and Anxiety 13:109-117, 2001.
11. Cyranowski JM, Shear MK, Rucci P, Fagiolini A, Frank E, Grochocinski VJ, Kupfer DJ, Banti S, Armani A, Cassano G. Adult separation anxiety: Psychometric properties of a new structured clinical interview. Journal of Psychiatric Research 36:77-86, 2002.
12. Cyranowski JM, Bookwalla J, Feske U, Houck P, Pilkonis P, Kostelnik B, Frank E. Adult attachment profiles, interpersonal difficulties, and response to interpersonal psychotherapy in women with recurrent major depression. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology 21:191-217, 2002.
13. Frank E, Cyranowski JM, Rucci P, Shear MK, Fagiolini A, Thase M, Cassano GB, Grochocinski VJ, Kostelnik B, Kupfer DJ. Clinical significance of lifetime panic spectrum symptoms in the treatment of patients with Bipolar I disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry 59:905-911, 2002.
14. Cyranowski JM, Frank E, Cherry C, Houck P, Kupfer DJ. Prospective assessment of sexual function in women treated for recurrent major depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 38:267-273, 2004.
15. 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.
16. Cyranowski JM, Bromberger J, Youk A, Matthews K, Kravitz HM, Powell LH. Lifetime depression history and sexual function in women at midlife. Archives of Sexual Behavior 33:539-548, 2004.
17. 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.
18. 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, Behavior and Immunity 21:229-237, 2007.
19. Matthews KA, Schott L, Bromberger J, Cyranowski JM, Everson-Rose S, Sowers MF. Associations between depressive symptoms and inflammatory/hemostatic markers in women during the menopausal transition. Psychosomatic Medicine 69:124-130, 2007.
20. Troxel WM, Cyranowski JM, Hall M, Frank E, Buysse DJ. Attachment anxiety, relationship context, and sleep in women with recurrent major depression. Psychosomatic Medicine 69: 692-699, 2007.
21. Kelly M, Cyranowski JM, Frank E. Sudden gains in interpersonal psychotherapy for depression. Behavior Research and Therapy 45: 2563-2572, 2007.
22. Dombrovsky AY, Mulsant BH, Houck PR, Mazumdar S, Lenze EJ, Andreescu C, Cyranowski JM, Reynolds CF III. Residual symptoms and recurrence during maintenance treatment of late-life depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 103:77-82, 2007.
23. Saghafi R, Brown C, Butters MA, Cyranowski J, Dew MA, Frank E, Gildengers A, Karp JF, Lenze EJ, Lotrich F, Martire L, Mazumdar S, Miller MD, Mulsant BH, Weber E, Whyte E, Morse J, Stack J, Houck PR, Bensasi S, and Reynolds CF: Predicting 6-week treatment response to escitalopram pharmacotherapy in late-life major depressive disorder. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 22(11):1141-1146, 2007.
24. Thurston RC, Bromberger J, Chang Y, Goldbacher E, Brown C, Cyranowski JM, Matthews KA. Childhood abuse or neglect is associated with increased vasomotor symptom reporting among midlife women. Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society 15:1-7, 2008.
25. Swartz HA, Frank E, Zuckoff A, Cyranowski JM, Houck PR, Cheng Y, Fleming MA, Grote NK, Brent D, Shear MK: Brief interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed mothers whose children are receiving psychiatric treatment. Am J Psychiatry 165:1155-1162, 2008.
* 26. Dombrovski AY, Cyranowski JM, Mulsant BH, Houck PR, Buysse DJ, Andreescu C, Thase ME, Mallinger AG, Frank E. Which symptoms predict recurrence of depression in women treated with maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy? Depression and Anxiety 25:1060-1066, 2008.
27. Cyranowski JM, Hofkens TL, Frank E., Seltman H, Cai H, Amico J. Evidence of dysregulated peripheral oxytocin release among depressed women. Psychosomatic Medicine 70:967-975, 2008.
* 28. Lenze S, Cyranowski JM, Thompson W, Anderson B, Frank E. The cumulative impact of nonsevere life events predicts depression recurrence during maintenance treatment with interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-M). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 76:979-987, 2008.
29. Cyranowski JM, Swartz HA, Hofkens TL, Frank E. Emotional and cardiovascular reactivity to a child-focused interpersonal stressor among depressed mothers of psychiatrically-ill children. Depression and Anxiety 26:110-116, 2009.
30. Matthews KA, Schott LL, Bromberger JT, Cyranowski JM, Everson-Rose SA, Sowers M. Are there bi-directional associations between depressive symptoms and C-reactive protein in mid-life women? Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 24:96-101, 2010.
31. Levenson J, Frank E, Cheng Y, Rucci P, Janney CA, Houck P, Forgione RN, Swartz HA, Cyranowski J, Fagiolini A. Comparative outcomes among the problem areas of interpersonal psychotherapy for depression. Depression and Anxiety, 27, 434-440, 2010.
32. Reynolds CF, Dew MA, Martire LM, Miller MD, Cyranowski JM, Lenze E, Whyte EM, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Karp JF, Gildengers A, Szanto K, Dombrovski AY, Andreescu C, Butters MA, Morse JQ, Houck PR, Bensasi S, Mazumdar S, Stack JA, and Frank E. Treating depression to remission in older adults: a controlled evaluation of combined escitalopram with interpersonal psychotherapy versus escitalopram with depression care management. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 25:1134-41, 2010.
33. Cyranowski JM, Hofkens TL, Swartz HA, Salomon K, Gianaros PJ. Cardiac vagal control in depressed women and nondepressed controls: Impact of depression status, lifetime trauma history, and respiratory factors. Psychosomatic Medicine, 73:336-343, 2011.
34. Cyranowski JM, Hofkens TL, Swartz HA, Gianaros PJ. Thinking about a close relationship differentially impacts cardiovascular stress responses among depressed and nondepressed women. Health Psychology, 30:276-284, 2011.
35. Bromberger JT, Kravitz HM, Chang Y, Cyranowski JM, Brown C, Matthews KA. Major depression during and after the menopausal transition: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Psychological Medicine, 41:1879-1888, 2011.
36. Cyranowski JM, Zill N, Bode R, Butt Z, Kelly MAR, Pilkonis PA, Salsman JM, Cella D. Assessing Social Support, Companionship, and Distress: NIH Toolbox Social Relationship Scales. Health Psychology, manuscript in press.
37. Fournier JC, Cyranowski JM, Rucci P, Cassano GB, Frank E. The Multiple Dimensions of Social Anxiety Spectrum in Mood Disorders. Manuscript in press.
38. Salsman JM, Butt Z, Pilkonis PA, Cyranowski JM, Zill N, Hendrie HC, Kupst MJ, Kelly MAR, Fox NA, Cella D. Emotional health and its assessment within Toolbox. Manuscript under review.
39. Pilkonis PA, Choi SW, Salsman J, Butt Z, Moore TL, Zill N, Cyranowski JM, Kelly MAR, Knox SS Cella D. Assessing negative affect across the lifespan: Developing self-report instruments for an NIH Toolbox. Manuscript under review.
40. Cyranowski JM, Schott LL, Kravitz HM, Brown C, Thurston RC, Joffe H, Matthews KA, Bromberger JT.
Psychosocial features associated with lifetime comorbidity of major depression and anxiety disorders
among a community sample of mid-life women. Manuscript under review.
41. Flynn KE, Lin L, Bruner DW, Cyranowski JM, Jeffery D, Keefe FJ, Porter LS, Reese JB, Reeve BB, Smith AW, Weinfurt KP. Development of the NIH PROMS sexual function measure in patients with cancer. Manuscript under review.
42. Reese JB, Shelby RA, Lin L, Weinfurt KP, Reeve BB, Jeffrey DD, Porter LS, Cyranowski JM, Smith AW, Keefe FJ, Bruner DW, Flynn KE. Sexual function in men and women with cancer: A comparison across the most common cancer groups. Manuscript under review.
* Denotes corresponding author
Invited Articles, Book Chapters
1. Cyranowski JM, Andersen BL. Sexual Self Schema Scale - Women’s version. In Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures. Davis C, Yarber W, Bauserman R, Schreer G, & Davis S (Eds.), Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998, pp. 241-244.
2. Frank E, Thase ME, Spanier C, Cyranowski JM, & Spiegel L. Psychotherapy of affective disorders. In: Contemporary Psychiatry: Specific Psychiatric Disorder Volume 3. F. Henn, N. Sartorius, H. Helmchen and H. Lauter (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany pp. 347-363, 2000.
3. Andersen BL, Cyranowski JM, Aarestad S. Beyond artificial sex-linked distinctions to conceptualize female sexuality: Commentary on R. Baumeister’s “Gender differences in erotic plasticity: The female sex drive as flexible and responsive.” Psychological Bulletin 126:380-384, 2001.
4. Frank E, Thase ME, Cyranowski JM, Jarrett RB. Strategie profilattiche nella depressione ricorrente: il ruolo della psicoterapia. Noos aggiornamenti in psichiatria, 8, 159-187, 2002.
5. Pilkonis PA, Cyranowski JM. Applying for NIH grants. In Handbook to a Graduate Career in Psychology. Prinstin MJ & Patterson M, (Eds), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press: New York, 2003.
6. Berga SL, Parry BP, Cyranowski JM. Psychiatry and Reproductive Medicine. In Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (8th edition). Sadock BJ & Sadock VA (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: Philadephia, 2005.
7. Cyranowski JM, Frank E. Treatment and prevention of depression in women: Targeted populations. In Women and Depression, Mazure et al., (Eds), American Psychological Association: Washington DC, 2006, pp. 71-112.
8. Dew MA, Cyranowski JM, Pilkonis PA. Overview of Medical Conditions and Depression. In International Encyclopedia of Depression, Ingram RE, (Ed.), Springer: New York, 2009, pp. 375-380.
Published Abstracts, Conference Presentations
1. Roberson MK, Cyranowski JM, Cochran CP, Medl R, Casper L. (March, 1991). Women’s experiences of walking alone after dark: The fear of rape among college women. Michigan Women’s Studies Association 19th Annual Meeting, Mt. Pleasant, MI.
2. Cyranowski JM, Andersen BL. (June, 1995). Differences in cognitive processing across four sexual self schema groups. 7th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York.
3. Cyranowski JM, Andersen BL. (March, 1996). Women's sexual self views and their relation to sexual behaviors, responses and affects. The 4th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC.
4. Cyranowski JM, Andersen BL. (May, 1996). Women's sexual self schemas: A cognitive
approach to women's sexuality. 1996 Eastern Region and Mid-continent Region Annual Spring
Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Pittsburgh, PA.
5. Staats S, Cyranowski JM, Romaine N. (May, 1996). Older working widows: Life well-being and work satisfaction. 68th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.