Hilary Blumberg

American medical doctor and psychiatrist

John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of child study
Director of Yale Mood Disorders Research

AwardsIndependent Investigator Award - NARSAD (2006))Academic backgroundEducation

Harvard University
Cornell University Medical College (1990)
New York Hospital residency
Weill Medical College neuroimaging fellowship

Alma materCornell University Medical CollegeAcademic workDisciplinePsychiatryMain interestsBipolar disorders,

Hilary Patricia Blumberg is a medical doctor and the inaugural John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.^[1] She is also a professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and works in the Child Study Center at Yale where she has been a faculty member since 1998. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, and completed medical school at Cornell University Medical College (1990). She completed her medical internship and psychiatry residency at Cornell University Medical College/New York Hospital, and her neuroimaging fellowship training at Cornell University, Weill Medical College. She has received the 2006 National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and the Gerald L. Klerman Award for Clinical Research.^[2] Blumberg has authored a number of scientific articles that focus on bipolar disorder, neuroimaging, and effects of specific genetic variations, developmental trajectories and structure-function relationships.

Career and research

Awards and honours

Mogens Schou Award Winner by International Society for Bipolar Disorders in 2021^[3]
Blanche F. Ittleson Award by American Psychiatric Association in 2018^[4]
Colvin Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research by Brain and Behavior foundation in 2017^[5]

Publications

A. Sankar et al., “Telehealth Social Rhythm Therapy to Reduce Mood Symptoms and Suicide Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Bipolar Disorder,” American Journal of Psychotherapy, Jul. 2021^[6]
H. P. Blumberg et al., “Rostral and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction in the Manic State of Bipolar Disorder,” American Journal of Psychiatry, null156, no. 12, null1988, Dec. 1999.^[7]
M. N. Potenza et al., “An fMRI Stroop Task Study of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortical Function in Pathological Gamblers,” American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 160, no. 11, pp. 1990–1994, Nov. 2003.^[8]
H. P. Blumberg et al., “Frontostriatal Abnormalities in Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder: Preliminary Observations From Functional MRI,” American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 160, no. 7, pp. 1345–1347, Jul. 2003.^[9]
J. A. Y. Johnston et al., “Multimodal Neuroimaging of Frontolimbic Structure and Function Associated With Suicide Attempts in Adolescents and Young Adults With Bipolar Disorder,” American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 174, no. 7, pp. 667–675, Jul. 2017.^[10]

References

^ "Dr. Hilary Blumberg appointed the inaugural Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience". yale.edu. 25 February 2015.
^ "Past Klerman and Freedman Prizewinners". Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Formerly NARSAD). Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
^ "ISBD Mogens Schou Awards". ISBD. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
^ "APA Council Reports". American Journal of Psychiatry. 175 (10): 1028–1045. 2018-10-01. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.1751001. ISSN 0002-953X. S2CID 207714727.
^ "Past Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners". Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
^ Sankar, Anjali; Panchal, Priyanka; Goldman, Danielle A.; Colic, Lejla; Villa, Luca M.; Kim, Jihoon A.; Lebowitz, Eli R.; Carrubba, Erin; Lecza, Bernadette; Silverman, Wendy K.; Swartz, Holly A. (2021-07-23). "Telehealth Social Rhythm Therapy to Reduce Mood Symptoms and Suicide Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Bipolar Disorder". American Journal of Psychotherapy. 74 (4): 172–177. doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210011. ISSN 0002-9564. PMC 9588254. PMID 34293928.
^ Blumberg, Hilary P.; Stern, Emily; Ricketts, Sally; Martinez, Diana; de Asis, Jose; White, Thomas; Epstein, Jane; Isenberg, Nancy; McBride, P. Anne; Kemperman, Ingrid; Emmerich, Sylvia (1999-12-01). "Rostral and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction in the Manic State of Bipolar Disorder". American Journal of Psychiatry. 156 (12): 1986–1988. doi:10.1176/ajp.156.12.1986. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 10588416. S2CID 2370602.
^ Potenza, Marc N.; Leung, Hoi-Chung; Blumberg, Hilary P.; Peterson, Bradley S.; Fulbright, Robert K.; Lacadie, Cheryl M.; Skudlarski, Pawel; Gore, John C. (2003-11-01). "An fMRI Stroop Task Study of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortical Function in Pathological Gamblers". American Journal of Psychiatry. 160 (11): 1990–1994. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.160.11.1990. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 14594746. S2CID 17789161.
^ Blumberg, Hilary P.; Martin, Andrés; Kaufman, Joan; Leung, Hoi-Chung; Skudlarski, Pawel; Lacadie, Cheryl; Fulbright, Robert K.; Gore, John C.; Charney, Dennis S.; Krystal, John H.; Peterson, Bradley S. (2003-07-01). "Frontostriatal Abnormalities in Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder: Preliminary Observations From Functional MRI". American Journal of Psychiatry. 160 (7): 1345–1347. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.160.7.1345. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 12832254.
^ Johnston, Jennifer A.Y.; Wang, Fei; Liu, Jie; Blond, Benjamin N.; Wallace, Amanda; Liu, Jiacheng; Spencer, Linda; Cox Lippard, Elizabeth T.; Purves, Kirstin L.; Landeros-Weisenberger, Angeli; Hermes, Eric (2017-01-31). "Multimodal Neuroimaging of Frontolimbic Structure and Function Associated With Suicide Attempts in Adolescents and Young Adults With Bipolar Disorder". American Journal of Psychiatry. 174 (7): 667–675. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.15050652. ISSN 0002-953X. PMC 5939580. PMID 28135845.