| Education:
B.A., Brown University: Psychology
Post-Baccalaureate Special Student:
Brown University
M.D.: University of Virginia School
of Medicine
Community Medicine Internship: University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Residency, Psychiatry: University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Fellowship, Preventive Medicine: The
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
M.P.H.: School of Public Health, Department
of Epidemiology, The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar:
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Summary
Statement:
Bradley N. Gaynes, MD, MPH, is an
Assistant Professor in the Department
of Psychiatry at the University of
North Carolina, where he conducts
research on the assessment and management
of psychiatric illness in primary
care medical patients. He is also
a Faculty Research Fellow at the Cecil
G. Sheps Center for Health Services
Research. Dr. Gaynes currently is
funded through a Career Development
Award (K23) from NIMH entitled, “Targeting
Treatment Resistant Depression in
Primary Care”. His current research
efforts include serving as the Associate
Director of the UNC Regional Center
for STAR*D, a multi-site, NIMH-supported
clinical trial for management of treatment
resistant depression, and serving
as the primary investigator for a
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force-supported
evidence report on screening for suicide
risk in primary care. His post-graduate
training has included a Robert Wood
Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship
at the University of North Carolina,
where he also received his Master
of Public Health degree in Epidemiology.
His primary research and clinical
interests are the assessment and management
of mood and anxiety disorders in primary
care medical settings; treatment resistant
depression; and the cost-effectiveness
of cognitive-behavioral therapy in
primary care. Dr. Gaynes’s specific
areas of expertise are in mental health
services research, clinical trials
research, and the application of evidence-based
medicine to the practice of psychiatry.
Representative
Publications:
1. Gaynes BN, Drossman DA: The role
of psychosocial factors in irritable
bowel syndrome. Baillieres Best Pract
Res Clin Gastroenterol 13:437-452,
1999.
2. Gaynes BN, Magruder KM, Burns BJ,
Wagner HR, Yarnall KS, Broadhead WE:
Does a coexisting anxiety disorder
predict persistence of depressive
illness in primary care patients with
major depression? General Hospital
Psychiatry 21:158-167, 1999.
3. Gaynes BN, Burns BJ, Tweed DL,
Erickson P: Depression and health-related
quality of life. Journal of Nervous
and Mental Disease 190:799-806, 2002.
4. Pignone MP, Gaynes BN, Rushton
JL, Burchell CM, Orleans CT, Mulrow
CD, Lohr KN: Screening for depression
in adults: a summary of the evidence
for the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force. Annals of Internal Medicine
136:765-776, 2002.
5. Elter JR, White BA, Gaynes BN,
Bader JD: Depression as a risk factor
for poor periodontal treatment outcomes
(abstract) Journal of Dental Research
80:179, 2001.
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