Departments & Centers
The Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
The IBMR team comprises 21 faculty researchers, making this interdisciplinary group perhaps the largest contingent of psychoneuroimmunology researchers in the world.
Our researchers have appointments in basic and clinical science departments and centers, including:
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
- College of Medicine
- Center for Microbial Pathogenesis
- College of Nursing
- College of Public Health Division of Biostatistics
- Department of Human Sciences
- Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity
- Department of Neuroscience
- Department of Neurological Surgery
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
- Department of Psychology
Our Leaders
Our Researchers
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Maria Eugenia Ariza, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology and Genetics
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Michael Bailey, PhD College of Medicine Principal Investigator, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis
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Ruth Barrientos, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
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Martha Belury, PhD, RDN Carol S. Kenney Professor of Nutrition
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Lisa Christian, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
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Olga N. Kokiko-Cochran, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
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Charles Emery, PhD Professor and Department Chair, Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychology
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Johnathan Godbout, PhD Assistant Director for Basic Science, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
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Mireia Guerau-de-Arellano, PharmD, PhD Associate Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Medical Laboratory Science Division
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Tamar Gur, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Health , Neuroscience, Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Michelle Humeidan, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Division of Neuroanesthesiology
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Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD Director, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
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Kathryn Lenz, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Neuroscience
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William B. Malarkey, MD Director, Clinical Research Center, Associate Director, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
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Phillip Popovich, PhD Director of the Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair; Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience; Director of the Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair
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Leah Pyter, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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John Sheridan, PhD, MS Associate Director, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
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Baldwin Way, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology
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Marshall Williams, PhD Professor, Cancer Biology and Genetics, and Microbiology