Department / Division:
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Medical Psychology

Address:
DUMC 3119
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-684-8843

Office Telephone:
919-684-8843

Fax Telephone:
919-684-8629

• PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Kansas, 1994

• Psychology, Duke University Medical Center, 1994-1995

• MA, Experimental Psychology, Bucknell University (Pennsylvania), 1991

Clinical Interests:
Consultation and brief therapy with solid-organ transplant patients

Research Interests:
My research interests fall into two categories

1.  My work has become more specialized toward statistical analysis of behavioral medicine research.  I have been solely responsible for developing and writing the statistical plan for four recent grant submissions that were successfully funded, including studies on anxiety and vagal control, stress and congestive heart failure, stress management and ischemic heart disease, and neuropsychological outcomes and bypass surgery.  I have also made significant contributions to the overall study design in each of those proposals.  I have served in the same role in a number of collaborations outside of our laboratory and outside of Duke, including two grants concerning depression and diabetes here at duke, and two health-related grants at Harvard University, one concerning hypochondriasis and personality traits, and the other, a study of statistical methods for evaluating psychosocial intervention trials.  I hope to submit my first application as PI sometime this summer on a project in collaboration with Washington University, examining the role of depression in clinical prognosis among lung transplant patients.  I continue to be very involved in assessing the value of newer statistical techniques in the analysis of psychological and clinical trials data.

Representative Publications:
Green, S. B., Robertson, M. & Babyak, M. A. (1998). A Monte Carlo investigation of methods for controlling Type I errors with specification searches in structural equation modeling. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 33, 364-384. (1998)

Brummett, B. H., Babyak, M. A., Barefoot, J. C., Bosworth, H. B., Clapp-Channing, N. E., Siegler, I. C., Williams, R. B., Mark, D. B. (1998). Social support and hostility as predictors of depressive symptoms in cardiac patient one month following hospitalization: A prospective study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 60, 707-713. (1998)

Houston, B. K., Babyak, M. A., Chesney, M., Black, G., & Ragland, D. (1997). Behavioral clusters and all-cause mortality in the Western Collaborative Group Study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 59, 5-12. (1997)

Green, S. B. & Babyak, M. A. (1997). Control of type I error in structural equation models. Journal of Multivariate Behavioral Research, 32, 39-51. (1997)

Blumenthal, J. A. B., Jiang, W., Waugh, R. A., Frid, D. J., Morris, J. J., Coleman, R. E., Hanson, M., Babyak, M. A., Thyrum, E. T., Krantz, D. S., & O'Connor, C. (1995). Mental stress-induced ischemia and ambulatory ischemia during daily life: Association and hemodynamic features. Circulation, 92, 2102-2108. (1995)