John H. Gilmore, M.D.

E-mail:  jgilmore@med.unc.edu

Office phone:  (919) 966-6971

Office fax:  (919) 966-7659

Education:

B.A., University of Virginia

M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Intern, Department of Surgery, Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

Resident, Psychiatry, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Payne-Whitney Clinic

Research Fellow, Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summary Statement:

Dr. Gilmore is a Professor of Psychiatry and is Vice Chair for Research and Scientific Affairs. He is Director of the UNC Schizophrenia Research Center, an NIMH-sponsored Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders. Dr. Gilmore is a member of the UNC Neuroscience Center and the Curriculum in Neurobiology, and serves as Scientific Director of the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center. Dr. Gilmore also directs the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and is clinically active in the Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program (STEP).

Research Interests:

Dr. Gilmore’s research focuses on the study of early brain development and risk for schizophrenia. His research uses MRI to study structural and functional brain development in normal and high risk children, as well as in twins to better understand the impact of environmental and genetic risk factors on early brain development, and the relationship of structural brain development to cognitive development in early childhood.

Representative Publications:

1. Knickmeyer RC, Gouttard S, Lin W, Evans DD, Wilber K, Smith JK. Kang C, Hamer RM, Gerig G, Gilmore JH. A structural MRI study of human brain development from birth to age 2. J Neuroscience 2008; 28: 12176-12182. PMC2884385
2. Gao W, Zhu H, Giovanello KS, Smith JK, Shen D, Gilmore JH, Lin W. Evidence on the emergence of the brain's default network from 2-week-old to 2-year-old healthy pediatric subjects. PNAS 2009; 106: 6790-6795. PMC2672537
3. Gilmore JH, Schmitt JE, Knickmeyer RA, Smith JK, Lin W, Styner M, Gerig G, Neale MC. Genetic and environmental contributions to neonatal brain structure: a twin study. Human Brain Mapping 2010; 31:1174-1182.
4. Gilmore JH, Kang C, Evans DD, Wolfe HM, Smith KS, Lieberman JA, Lin W, Hamer RM, Styner M, Gerig G. Prenatal and neonatal brain structure and white matter maturation in children at high risk for schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry 2010; 167: 1083-1091
5. Gao W, Gilmore JH, Giovanello K, Smith K, Shen D, Zhu H, Lin L. Temporal and spatial evolution of brain network topology during the first two years of life. PLoS ONE 2011; 6:e25278.
6. Gilmore JH, Shi F, Woolson S, Knickmeyer RC, Short SJ, Zhu H, Hamer RM, Styner M, Shen D. Longitudinal development of cortical and subcortical gray matter from birth to 2 years. Cerebral Cortex 2011; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhr327 epub Nov 22, 2011.