Assistant Professor,
   Dept. of Psychiatry & Human Behavior 
   Brown Medical School

   Staff Psychologist,
   The Miriam Hospital

  

Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center
196 Richmond Street
Providence, RI 02903
Phone: (401) 793-8010
Email: Jeanne_McCaffery@brown.edu   
             JMcCaffery@lifespan.org
Fax:  (401) 793-8056

Jeanne McCaffery, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital.  She received her PhD in clinical and health psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and completed her clinical internship at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium in 2001.  Her research interests are twin and family studies and molecular genetics in cardiovascular behavioral medicine and addictive behaviors. Recent projects include: genetic and environmental contributions to metabolic dysregulation associated with cardiovascular disease, genetic and environmental associations between depression and smoking behavior, environmental contributions of socioeconomic status to health behaviors and cardiovascular disease, and specific variants in DNA that predict physiological responses to psychological stress.

• American Psychosomatic Society, Student Travel Award, 2001
• American Psychological Association, Division 38 (Health Psychology), Student Research Award, 2000
• Huey Award for Dissertation Research in Clinical Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 2000
• Bassell Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychology Graduate Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2000
• Colavita-Weisburg Award for Excellence in Health Psychology Graduate Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2000
• University of Pittsburgh - Carnegie Mellon University Health Psychology Predoctoral Fellow, 1999-2000
• Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-1999

Genetic Risk Factors for Nicotine Addiction
Jeanne McCaffery, Ph.D. (PI subcontract) & James Knowles, M.D., Ph.D. (Project PI)

The goal of this NIDA funded project is to identify areas of the genome that contribute to vulnerability to nicotine dependence by studying siblings and families with a history of heavy cigarette smoking.

Gianaros, P. J., Bleil, M. E., Muldoon, M. F., Jennings, J. R., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., McCaffery, J. M., & Manuck, S. B.  (2002).  Is cardiovascular reactivity associated with atherosclerosis among hypertensives? Hypertension, 40, 742-747.

McCaffery, J. M., Niaura, R. S., Swan, G., & Carmelli, D.  (in press).  A study of depressive symptoms and smoking behavior in adult male twins from the NHLBI twin study.  Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

McCaffery, J. M., Niaura, R. S., Todaro, J. F., Swan, G., & Carmelli, D.  (in press).  Depressive symptoms and metabolic risk in adult male twins enrolled in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Twin Study.  Psychosomatic Medicine.

McCaffery, J. M., Pogue-Geile, M. F., Ferrell, R. E., Petro, N., & Manuck, S. B.  (2002).  Variability within alpha- and beta-adrenoreceptor genes as a predictor of cardiovascular function at rest and in response to mental challenge.  Journal of Hypertension, 20, 1105-1114.

McCaffery, J. M., Pogue-Geile, M. F., Muldoon, M. F., Debski, T. T., Wing, R. R., & Manuck, S. B.  (2001).  The nature of the association between diet and serum lipids in the community: A twin study.  Health Psychology, 20, 341-350.

Raynor, D. A., Pogue-Geile, M. F., Kamarck, T. W., McCaffery, J. M., & Manuck, S. B.  (2002).  Covariation of psychosocial characteristics associated with cardiovascular disease: Genetic and environmental influences.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 64, 191-203.