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Faculty Bio - Joyce T. Bromberger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry
3811 O'Hara St.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Voice: 412-648-7108
E-mail: brombergerjt@upmc.edu

Office: Sterling Plaza, 201 N. Craig Street





Research Interests
  • Psychiatric epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of women's health
  • Interrelationship between mental and physical health of middle-aged and aging women
  • Depression and cardiovascular disease
  • Behavioral interventions for subclinical sleep and mood disturbances
Research Support
  • Principal Investigator:
    • Menopause, Depression and Aging (2007-2011) NIMH
    • Menopause Transition, Mental Health and Ethnicity (2001-2006) NIMH

  • Co-Principal Investigator:
    • Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (1994-2014) NIA

  • Co-Investigator:
    • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women (2009-2012) NHLBI
    • SWAN Sleep Study II (2006-2009) NIA
    • Mammographic Density in a Multiethnic Cohort (2002-2006) NCI
    • Sleep During the Perimenopause in a Multiethnic Cohort (2002-2005) NIA
Education & Training
  • Brandeis University - B.A. Psychology, 1964
  • University of Pittsburgh - M.S.W., 1967
  • University of Pittsburgh - Ph.D., 1990
Selected Publications

Bromberger JT, Wisner KL, & Hanusa BH. Marital support and remission of treated depression: A prospective pilot study of mothers of infants and toddlers. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1994, 182:40-44.

Bromberger JT, & Matthews KA. Employment status and depressive symptoms in middle-aged women: A longitudinal investigation. American Journal of Public Health 1994, 84: 202-06.

Bromberger JT, & Matthews KA. A longitudinal study of the effects of pessimism, trait anxiety, and life stress on depressive symptoms in middle-aged women. Psychology and Aging 1996, 11:207-13.

Bromberger JT, & Matthews KA. A "feminine" model of vulnerability to depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study of middle-aged women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1996, 3:591-98.

Bromberger JT, Matthews KA, & et al. Prospective study of the determinants of age at menopause. American Journal of Epidemiology 1997, 145:124-33.

Bromberger JT. Gender and depression. In R. Ness, LH. Kuller (Eds), In Health and Disease Among Women: Biological and Environmental Influences. Oxford University Press. 1998.

Boyles SH, Ness RB, Grisso JA, Markovic N, Bromberger JT, & Cifelli D. Life event stress and the association with spontaneous abortion in gravid women at an urban emergency department. Health Psychology 2000, 19(6):510-514.

Bromberger JT, Meyer PM, Kravitz H, Sommer B, Cordal A, Powell L, Ganz P, Sutton-Tyrrell K. Psychological distress and menopause: a multi-ethnic community study. American Journal of Public Health 2001, Vol. 91: 1435-1442.

Avis N, Stellato R, Bromberger JT, Cain V, Crawford S, Ganz P, Kagawa-Singer M. Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopause status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups. Social Science and Medicine 2001, 52:345-356.

Gold EB, Bromberger JT, Crawford S, Samuels S, Greendale GA, Harlow SD, Skurnick J, Neer R, Sherman S. Factors affecting age at natural menopause in a multi-ethnic sample of midlife women: American Journal of Epidemiology 2001, 153:865-74.

Troxel WM, Matthews KM, Bromberger JT, Sutton-Tyrrell K. Chronic stress burden, discrimination, and subclinical cardiovascular disease in African American and Caucasian women. Health Psychology 2003, Vol. 22, No.3: 300-309

Kravitz HM, Ganz PA, Bromberger J, Powell LH, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Meyer PM. Sleep difficulty in women at midlife: a community survey of sleep and the menopause transition. Menopause 2003, Vol.10, No.1: 19-28.

Jones DJ, Matthews KA, Bromberger JT, Sutton-Tyrrell K. Lifetime history of depression and carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged women. Archives of General Psychiatry 2003, Vol 60: 153-160.

Bromberger JT, Assmann SF, Avis NE, Schocken M, Kravitz HM, Cordal A. Persistent mood symptoms in a multi-ethnic community cohort of pre and perimenopausal women. American Journal of Epidemiology 2003; 158:347-356.

Avis NE, Assmann SF, Ory M., Karen Matthews, Miriam Schocken, Bromberger JT, Health-Related quality of life among a multi-ethnic sample of middle-aged women. Medical Care. 2003. Vol 41 (11): 1262-1276.

Bromberger JT. A psychosocial understanding of depression in women: For the primary care physician. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association. 2004. Vol. 53 (Summer): 198-206.

Bromberger JT, Harlow SD, Avis NE, Kravitz HM, Cordal A. Racial/Ethnic differences in the prevalence of elevated depressive symptoms in midlife women: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). American Journal of Public Health 2004. 94:1378-1385.

Cyranowski JM, Bromberger J, Youk A, Matthews K, Kravitz HM, Powell LH. Lifetime depression history and sexual function in women at midlife. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2004. 33(6):539-48.

Everson-Rose SA, Meyer PM, Powell LH, Pandey D, Torrens JI, Kravitz HM, Bromberger JT, and Matthews KA. Depressive symptoms, insulin resistance, and risk of diabetes in women at midlife. Diabetes Care. 2004, Vol 27: 2856-2862.

Agatisa PK, Matthews KA, Bromberger JT, Edmundowicz D, Chang YF, Sutton-Tyrrell K. Coronary and aortic calcification in women with a history of major depression. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2005;165:1229-1236.

Bromberger JT, Kravitz HM, Wei HL, Brown C, Youk A, Cordal A, Powell L, Matthews KA et al. History of depression and women’s current health and functioning in midlife. General Hospital Psychiatry, May/June 2005. 27: 200-208.

Kravitz HM, Janssen I, Santoro N, Bromberger JT, Schocken M, Everson-Rose S, Karavolos K, Powell l. Relationship of day-to-day reproductive hormone levels to sleep in midlife women. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2005;165:2370-2376.

Matthews KA, Schott LL, Bromberger JT, Cyranowski J, Everson-Rose S, Sowers MF. Associations between depressive symptoms and inflammatory/hemostatic markers in women during the menopausal transition. Psychosomatic Medicine. 2007; 69: 124-130.

Bromberger JT, Matthews KA, Schott LL, Brockwell S, Avis N, Kravitz HM, Everson-Rose SA, Gold EB, Sowers M, Randolph Jr J. Depressive symptoms during the menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2007; 267-272.

Thurston R, Bromberger J, Chang Y, Goldbacher E, Brown C, Cyranowski JM, Matthews KA. Childhood abuse or neglect is associated with increased vasomotor symptom reporting among midlife women. Menopause. 2008:15 (1): 32-43.

Bromberger, J.T., Kravitz, H.M., Matthews, K.A., Youk, A., Brown, C., & Feng, W. Predictors of first lifetime episodes of major depression in midlife women. Psychological Medicine 2009; 39:55-64.

Hall M, Matthews K.A., Kravitz H.M., Gold E.B., Buysse D.J., Bromberger J.T., Owens J.F., Sowers M. Race and financial strain are independent correlates of sleep in midlife women: The SWAN Sleep Study. Sleep 2009; 32:73-82.