Martica Hall, Ph.D. Dr. Hall studies the impact of stress-related sleep disturbances on diverse populations, including healthy and depressed children, adults, and elders; family caregivers; health care workers; women during menopause; and elders with bereavement-related depression. Her research includes a variety of study designs: experimental laboratory studies, cross-sectional and longitudinal naturalistic studies, and intervention research with a focus on modeling causal mechanisms. She is the Co-Chair for the Society of Behavioral Medicine/International Congress of Behavioral Medicine's Program Track on Psychological Disorders and Sleep and the Chair of the Program Committee for the American Psychosomatic Society.

Positions

• Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA
• Assistant Professor, Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

Education

• Ph.D., 1985, University of Pittsburgh, Biopsychology

Relevant Publications

• Sowers MF, Zheng H, Kravitz HM, et al. Sex steroid hormone profiles are related to sleep measures from polysomnography and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Sleep. 2008;31(10):1339-1349.
• Kravitz HM, Zhao X, Bromberger JT. Sleep disturbance during the menopausal transition in a multi-ethnic community sample of women. Sleep. 2008;31(7):979-990.
• Mezick EJ, Matthews KA, Hall M, et al. Influence of race and socioeconomic status on sleep: Pittsburgh SleepSCORE Project. Psychosom Med. 2008;70(4):410-416.
• Hall M, Muldoon MF, Jennings J, Buysse DJ, Flory JD, Manuck SB. Self-reported sleep duration is associated with the metabolic syndrome in midlife adults. Sleep. 2008;31(5):635-643.
• Goldman SE, Hall M, Boudreau R, et al. Association between nighttime sleep and napping in older adults. Sleep. 2008;31(5):733-740.