Lawson Wulsin
Lawson Reed Wulsin is a professor emeritus of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Wulsin specializes in psychosomatic medicine and from 1995-2019 was the training director for the University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program.
Wulsin is the author of two books: 1) "Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It" "Treating the Aching Heart" 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." 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. 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.