Lawson Wulsin

Lawson Reed Wulsin (born June 17, 1951) is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is a practicing psychiatrist for the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center.^[1] Wulsin specializes in psychosomatic medicine and from 1995-2019 was the training director for the University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program.^[2]

Wulsin is the author of Treating the Aching Heart (Vanderbilt University Press 2007) which "presents a new view of depression as a broad-reaching illness with a distinct neurobiology that influences the most up-to-date model of heart disease."^[3] Other research by Wulsin includes "Depressive symptoms, coronary heart disease, and overall mortality in the Framingham Heart Study," published in Psychosomatic Medicine; "Can mortality studies change clinical care and health policy?" in Journal of Psychosomatic Research; "Is depression a major risk factor for coronary disease? A systematic review of the epidemiologic evidence," in Harvard Review of Psychiatry; "Do depressive symptoms increase the risk for the onset of coronary disease? A systematic quantitative review” in Psychosomatic Medicine; and "A systematic review of the mortality of depression," in Psychosomatic Medicine.

Wulsin holds an M.D. from the University of Cincinnati and is a graduate of Harvard College. Wulsin is married to Victoria Wells Wulsin, an epidemiologist and former democratic congressional candidate (2006, 2008). They live in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a grandson of Lucien Wulsin, a founder of the Baldwin Piano Company and the son of Dr. John Wulsin. ^[4]