Bradley N. Gaynes, M.D., M.P.H.

E-mail:  bradley_gaynes@med.unc.edu

UNC Office:  (919) 966-8028

Mental Health Specialists - Chapel Hill:  (919) 929-7449

Education:

B.A., Brown University, Psychology
Post-Baccalaureate Special Student, Brown University
M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine
Community Medicine Internship, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Residency, Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Fellowship, Preventive Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.P.H., School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summary Statement:

Bradley N. Gaynes, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, conducts research on the assessment and management of psychiatric illness in primary care medical patients.  He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.  Dr. Gaynes currently is funded through a Career Development Award (K23) from NIMH entitled, “Targeting Treatment Resistant Depression in Primary Care.”  His current research efforts include serving as the Associate Director of the UNC Regional Center for STAR*D, a multi-site, NIMH-supported clinical trial for management of treatment resistant depression, and serving as the primary investigator for a U.S. Preventive Services Task Force-supported evidence report on screening for suicide risk in primary care. 

His post-graduate training included a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship at the University of North Carolina, where he also received his Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology.  His primary research and clinical interests are the assessment and management of mood and anxiety disorders in primary care medical settings; treatment resistant depression; and the cost-effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy in primary care.  Dr. Gaynes’s specific areas of expertise are in mental health services research, clinical trials research, and the application of evidence-based medicine to the practice of psychiatry.

Dr. Gaynes also oversees mentoring for the department's clinical faculty.

Representative Publications:

1. Gaynes BN, Drossman DA: The role of psychosocial factors in irritable bowel syndrome. Baillieres Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol 13:437-452, 1999.
2. Gaynes BN, Magruder KM, Burns BJ, Wagner HR, Yarnall KS, Broadhead WE: Does a coexisting anxiety disorder predict persistence of depressive illness in primary care patients with major depression? General Hospital Psychiatry 21:158-167, 1999.
3. Gaynes BN, Burns BJ, Tweed DL, Erickson P: Depression and health-related quality of life. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 190:799-806, 2002.
4. Pignone MP, Gaynes BN, Rushton JL, Burchell CM, Orleans CT, Mulrow CD, Lohr KN: Screening for depression in adults: a summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Annals of Internal Medicine 136:765-776, 2002.
5. Elter JR, White BA, Gaynes BN, Bader JD: Depression as a risk factor for poor periodontal treatment outcomes (abstract) Journal of Dental Research 80:179, 2001.