Academic Training
1984 B.A. Honours, Queen's University, Canada, Psychology
1987 M.A.Sc., University of Waterloo, Canada, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
1991 Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada, Clinical Psychology, APA approved
Academic Appointments
1991-1996 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dalhousie University
1992-1996 Lecturer in Psychiatry& Medicine, Dalhousie University
1996-1999 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama
2000 Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama
2000-2003 Assistant Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
2003 Associate Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
2003- Associate Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry in Medicine and Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (final titling pending)
Professional Activities
2002- NIH RPHB 3 Review Panel Member
2004 NHLBI Consensus Panel on Detection Co-Chair and Treatment of Depression
1996-1998 Journal of Personality Guest Editor
1997- Journal of Research in Personality Member, Editorial Board
2001- Psychosomatic Medicine Member, Editorial Board
2004- Health Psychology Member, Editorial Board
2000- Society for Behavioral Medicine Chair Task force on Evidence-based Behavioral Medicine Interventions
2001-2002 Society for Behavioral Medicine Co-Program Chair
2002-2003 Society for Behavioral Medicine Program Chair
2004- CDC Task Force on Community Member Preventive Services
Summary of Research Interests Karina Davidson, Ph.D. is Intervention Research Director of the Behavioral Cardiovascular Health & Hypertension Program at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Dr. Davidson's research focuses on psychosocial interventions with patients with cardiovascular disease. She is also interested in personality intervention at the primary, secondary, and tertiary stages of these diseases. She has conducted randomized controlled trials primarily in anger management but has recently developed an interest in depression reduction and subsequent improvement in cardiovascular parameters such as uncontrolled hypertension and silent ischemia. Of note are her two randomized controlled trials demonstrating that anger expression changes gained from group therapy decrease hostility as well as blood pressure and hospital re-admissions, and her NIH contract exploring the etiology, course and treatment of cardiac dysphoria in patients with acute coronary syndromes.
Selected Publications
Davidson KW , Goldstein M, Kaplan R , Kaufmann P, Knatterud G, Orleans TC, Pickering T, Spring B, Trudeau K, & Whitlock E. Evidence-based Behavioral Medicine:What is it, and how do we get there? Annals of Behavioral Medicine 2003;26:161-171.
Linden W, Gerin W, & Davidson KW . Cardiovascular reactivity: status quo and a research agenda for the new millennium. Psychosomatic Medicine 2003;65:5-8.
MacGregor MW, Davidson KW, Rowan P, Barksdale C & MacLean D. The use of defenses and physician health care costs: Are physician health care costs lower in persons with more adaptive defense profiles? Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2003;72:315-323.
Schwartz AR, Gerin W, Davidson KW , Pickering TG, Brosschot JF, Thayer JF, Christenfeld N & Linden W. In search of a coherent model of stressor effects on short-term cardiovascular adjustments and the development of cardiovascular disease. Psychosomatic Medicine 2003;65:22-35.
Farkouh ME, Robbins MJ, Zafar MU, Shimbo D, Davidson KW , Puttappa R, Winston J, Halperin JL, Epstein EM, Patel M, Talor, Z. Troponin-I predicts mortality in stable chronic hemodialysis patients. American Journal of Medicine 2003;114:224-6.
MacGregor MW, Davidson KW , Barksdale C, Black S, & MacLean D. Adaptive defense use and resting blood pressure in a population-based sample. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2003;55:531-541.
McGrath, PJ, Stinson J, & Davidson KW . The Journal of Pediatric Psychology should adopt the CONSORT Statement as a way of improving the evidence base in pediatric psychology. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2003;28:169-71.
Gidron Y, Rieckmann N, Chaplin WF, Davidson KW. Secondary prevention in acute coronary syndrome patients: a comparison of behavioural medicine and medication randomized controlled interventions. Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine 2004; 1(2):137-143.
Davidson KW , Rieckmann N, Lespérance F. Psychological theories of depression: Potential application for the prevention of Acute Coronary Syndrome recurrence. Psychosomatic Medicine in press.
Davidson, KW , Trudeau, K. J., Ockene, J. K., Orleans, C. T., & Kaplan, R. M. A primer on current evidence-based review systems and their implications for behavioral medicine. Annals of Behavioral Medicine in press.
Currently Funded Projects (Selected)
NIH/OBSSR
NLM 00-158-2 (K. Davidson, PI) 2002-2004
Evaluation of Behavioral Medicine Interventions (Contract with Society of Behavioral Medicine)
NIH/NHLBI
N01-HC-25197 (K. Davidson, PI) 2002-2007
Consortium for Translation of Psychosocial Depression Theories to Intervention and Dissemination
NLM
NLM-02-104/HBG (K. Davidson, PI) 2003-2008
Summer Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
NIH/NHLBI
K23 HL04458 (K Davidson, PI) 2001-2006
Controlled Randomized Anger Reduction in Hypertensives
Awards
2000 Michael Follick Research Award from National Society of Behavioral Medicine
2001 National Society of Behavioral Medicine Distinguished Service Award
2002 Society of Behavioral Medicine Fellow
2003 Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Scholar Award
2003 Elected Fellow, Health Psychology (Division 38), American Psychological Association
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