Lawson Reed Wulsin (born June 17, 1951) is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is a practicing psychiatrist for the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center.[1] Wulsin specializes in psychosomatic medicine and from 1995-2019 was the training director for the University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program.[2]
Wulsin is the author of Treating the Aching Heart (Vanderbilt University Press 2007) which "presents a new view of depression as a broad-reaching illness with a distinct neurobiology that influences the most up-to-date model of heart disease."[3] Other research by Wulsin includes "Depressive symptoms, coronary heart disease, and overall mortality in the Framingham Heart Study," published in Psychosomatic Medicine; "Can mortality studies change clinical care and health policy?" in Journal of Psychosomatic Research; "Is depression a major risk factor for coronary disease? A systematic review of the epidemiologic evidence," in Harvard Review of Psychiatry; "Do depressive symptoms increase the risk for the onset of coronary disease? A systematic quantitative review” in Psychosomatic Medicine; and "A systematic review of the mortality of depression," in Psychosomatic Medicine.
Wulsin holds an M.D. from the University of Cincinnati and is a graduate of Harvard College. Wulsin is married to Victoria Wells Wulsin, an epidemiologist and former democratic congressional candidate (2006, 2008). They live in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a grandson of Lucien Wulsin, a founder of the Baldwin Piano Company and the son of Dr. John Wulsin. [4]
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- ^ Lawson Wulsin CV.
- ^ Wulsin, Lawson M.D.
- ^ Book Detail. Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Obituary of Dr. John Lawson