EDUCATION/AFFILIATIONS
Shari R. Waldstein completed her A.B. in psychology at Duke University, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh with specialty training in cardiovascular behavioral medicine. She completed her clinical internship in neuropsychology and behavioral medicine at Brown University. Dr. Waldstein is presently Professor of Psychology, Director of the Behavioral Medicine Track of the Human Services Psychology graduate program, and Affiliate Professor of Gerontology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND AWARDS
Dr. Waldstein has previously served as the President of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS), as a member of the APS Executive Council, and as Chair of its Professional Education Committee. She has also served on the Executive Council of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR), and as Chair of ABMR's Membership Committee; as Member-at-Large for Division 38 (Society for Health Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA); and as Chair of the Education and Training Council for the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Waldstein is currently an Editorial Board member for Psychosomatic Medicine and Health Psychology; She has previously served as an Associate Editor for Health Psychology and as a regular member of the MESH (Mechanisms of Emotion and Stress in Health) study section for the National Institutes of Health. She is a Fellow of the ABMR, APS, APA - Division 38, and SBM. Dr. Waldstein was the recipient of an Early Career Award from the APS, an Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Health Psychology Award from Division 38 of the APA, and an Outstanding Contributions to Science Award from the Maryland Psychological Association. She was the 2015-2016 Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC. Dr. Waldstein is the 2023 recipient of the ABMR's Tica Hall Outstanding Mentor Award.
SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Beydoun, M.A. Hooten, N., Beydoun, H.A., Weiss, J., Maldonado, A.I., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos,
C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R.
(2023). Plasma neurofilament light and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged urban
adults. Neurobiology of Aging 129:28-40.
Shaked, D., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K.,
Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2022). White matter integrity as a mediator between
socioeconomic status and executive function. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Nov
18;16:1021857. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.1021857.
Waldstein, S.R., Kop, W.J., Suarez, E.C., Lovallo, W.R., & Katzel, L.I. (Eds). (2022). Handbook of Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine. New York: Springer
Gardner, A.W., Montgomery, P.S., Wang, M., Shen, B., Casanegra, A.I., Silva-Palocios, F.,
Ungvari, Z., Yabluchansky, A., Csiszar, A. & Waldstein, S.R. (2021). Cognitive decrement in
older adults with symptomatic peripheral artery disease. Geroscience, 43: 2455-2465.
Beydoun, M.A., Hossain, S., MacIver, P.H., Srinivasan, D., Beydoun, H.A., Maldonado, A.L., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2021). Red cell distribution width, anemia and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged adults. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 105:229-240
Leibel, D.K., Williams, M.R., Katzel, L.I., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B. & Waldstein, S.R. (2020) Interactive relations of executive function, race, and sex with physical performance in middle adulthood: a prospective investigation in African American and White adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences. 75, e56-e68
Beatty Moody, D.L., Leibel, D.K., Pantesco, E.J., Wendell, C.R., Waldstein S.R., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2020). Interactive relations across dimensions of interpersonal-level discrimination and depressive symptoms to carotid intimal-medial thickening in African Americans. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82, 234-246
Volgman, A.S., Bairey Merz, C.N., Aggarwal, N.T., Bittner, V., Bunch, J., Gorelick, P.B., Maki, P., Patel, H.N., Poppas, A., Ruskin, J., Russo, A.M., Waldstein, S.R., Wenger, N., Yaffe, K., & Pepine, C. (2019) Sex differences in cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment: another health disparity for women? Journal of the American Heart Association, Oct;8(19): e013154. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.013154.
Shaked, D., Milman, Z., Beatty Moody, D.L., Rosenberger, W.F., Shao, H., Davatzikos, C., Katzel, L.I., Gullapalli, R., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2019). Sociodemographic disparities in corticolimibic structures. PloS One, May 9;14(5): e0216338. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216338
Leibel D., Shaked D., Beatty Moody, D.L., Liu, H., Weng, N.P., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2019). Telomere length and cognitive function: differential patterns across sociodemographic groups. Neuropsychology 34, 186-198
Shaked D., Leibel, D.K., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R., (2019). Disparities in diffuse cortical white matter integrity between socioeconomic groups. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Jun 12 13:198. doi: 10.3389/ fnhum. 2019.00198
Beatty Moody, D.L., Taylor, A.D., Leibel, D.K., Al’Najjar, E., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli R., Seliger, S.L., Kouo, T., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2019). Lifetime discrimination, racism and subclinical cerebrovascular disease among African Americans. Health Psychology, 38, 63-74.
Shaked D., Katzel, L.I., Seliger, S.L., Gullapalli, R., Davatzikos, C., Erus, G., Rosenberger, W., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2018). The relations of socioeconomic status and executive function: is prefrontal cortex volume a mediator? Neurosychology, 32, 985-995.
Pantesco, E.J., Leibel, D.K., Ashe, J.J., Waldstein, S.R., Katzel, L.I., Liu, H.B>, Weng, N.P., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Beatty Moody, D.L. (2018). Multiple forms of discrimination, social status, and telomere length: interactions within race. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98, 119-126
Wendell, C.R., Waldstein, S.R., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2017). Distributions of subclinical cardiovascular disease in a socioeconomically and racially diverse sample: the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. Stroke, 48, 850-856.
Waldstein, S.R., Dore, G.A., Davatzikos, C., Katzel, L.I., Gullapalli, R., Seliger, S.L., Kouo, T., Rosenberger, W.R., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2017). Differential association of socioeconomic status to brain volumes and white matter lesions in African Americans and Whites: the HANDLS SCAN study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 327-335.
Kisser, J.E., Allen, A.J., Katzel, L.I., Wendell, C.R., Siegel, E.L., Lefkowitz, D.M., & Waldstein, S.R. (2016). Relations of blood pressure and head injury to cerebral blood flow. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 365, 9-14.
Waldstein, S.R., Beatty Moody, D.L., McNeely, J.M., Allen, A.J., Sprung, M.R., Shah, M.T., Al’Najjar, E., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2016). Relations of race and poverty status to cardiovascular risk factors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. BMC Public Health, 16:258, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-2945-9
Allen, A.J., Kuczmarski, M.F., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2016). Interactive relations of food insecurity and race to diet quality reveals resilience among Blacks. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 3, 706-712
Waldstein, S.R. & Elias, M.F. (Eds.) (2015) Neuropsychology of Cardiovascular Disease (2nd Ed.) New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Dore, G.A., Waldstein, S.R., Evans, M.K, & Zonderman, A.B. (2015). Diabetes and cognitive function in the HANDLS study: Moderation by race and poverty status. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 643-652
Cooper, D.C., Thayer, J.F., & Waldstein, S.R. (2014). Coping with racism: the impact of prayer on cardiovascular reactivity and post-stress recovery in African American women. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 47, 218-230
Wendell C.R., Waldstein, S. R., & Zonderman, A. B. (2014). Nonlinear associations between trajectories of total cholesterol and cognitive change over time. Neuropsychology, 28, 106-112
Shah, M.T., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2013). Sex and age differences in the relation of depressive symptoms to blood pressure. American Journal of Hypertension, 26, 1413-1420
Shari R. Waldstein completed her A.B. in psychology at Duke University, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh with specialty training in cardiovascular behavioral medicine. She completed her clinical internship in neuropsychology and behavioral medicine at Brown University. Dr. Waldstein is presently Professor of Psychology, Director of the Behavioral Medicine Track of the Human Services Psychology graduate program, and Affiliate Professor of Gerontology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND AWARDS
Dr. Waldstein has previously served as the President of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS), as a member of the APS Executive Council, and as Chair of its Professional Education Committee. She has also served on the Executive Council of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR), and as Chair of ABMR's Membership Committee; as Member-at-Large for Division 38 (Society for Health Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA); and as Chair of the Education and Training Council for the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Waldstein is currently an Editorial Board member for Psychosomatic Medicine and Health Psychology; She has previously served as an Associate Editor for Health Psychology and as a regular member of the MESH (Mechanisms of Emotion and Stress in Health) study section for the National Institutes of Health. She is a Fellow of the ABMR, APS, APA - Division 38, and SBM. Dr. Waldstein was the recipient of an Early Career Award from the APS, an Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Health Psychology Award from Division 38 of the APA, and an Outstanding Contributions to Science Award from the Maryland Psychological Association. She was the 2015-2016 Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC. Dr. Waldstein is the 2023 recipient of the ABMR's Tica Hall Outstanding Mentor Award.
SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Beydoun, M.A. Hooten, N., Beydoun, H.A., Weiss, J., Maldonado, A.I., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos,
C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R.
(2023). Plasma neurofilament light and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged urban
adults. Neurobiology of Aging 129:28-40.
Shaked, D., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K.,
Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2022). White matter integrity as a mediator between
socioeconomic status and executive function. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Nov
18;16:1021857. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.1021857.
Waldstein, S.R., Kop, W.J., Suarez, E.C., Lovallo, W.R., & Katzel, L.I. (Eds). (2022). Handbook of Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine. New York: Springer
Gardner, A.W., Montgomery, P.S., Wang, M., Shen, B., Casanegra, A.I., Silva-Palocios, F.,
Ungvari, Z., Yabluchansky, A., Csiszar, A. & Waldstein, S.R. (2021). Cognitive decrement in
older adults with symptomatic peripheral artery disease. Geroscience, 43: 2455-2465.
Beydoun, M.A., Hossain, S., MacIver, P.H., Srinivasan, D., Beydoun, H.A., Maldonado, A.L., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2021). Red cell distribution width, anemia and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged adults. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 105:229-240
Leibel, D.K., Williams, M.R., Katzel, L.I., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B. & Waldstein, S.R. (2020) Interactive relations of executive function, race, and sex with physical performance in middle adulthood: a prospective investigation in African American and White adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences. 75, e56-e68
Beatty Moody, D.L., Leibel, D.K., Pantesco, E.J., Wendell, C.R., Waldstein S.R., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2020). Interactive relations across dimensions of interpersonal-level discrimination and depressive symptoms to carotid intimal-medial thickening in African Americans. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82, 234-246
Volgman, A.S., Bairey Merz, C.N., Aggarwal, N.T., Bittner, V., Bunch, J., Gorelick, P.B., Maki, P., Patel, H.N., Poppas, A., Ruskin, J., Russo, A.M., Waldstein, S.R., Wenger, N., Yaffe, K., & Pepine, C. (2019) Sex differences in cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment: another health disparity for women? Journal of the American Heart Association, Oct;8(19): e013154. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.013154.
Shaked, D., Milman, Z., Beatty Moody, D.L., Rosenberger, W.F., Shao, H., Davatzikos, C., Katzel, L.I., Gullapalli, R., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2019). Sociodemographic disparities in corticolimibic structures. PloS One, May 9;14(5): e0216338. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216338
Leibel D., Shaked D., Beatty Moody, D.L., Liu, H., Weng, N.P., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2019). Telomere length and cognitive function: differential patterns across sociodemographic groups. Neuropsychology 34, 186-198
Shaked D., Leibel, D.K., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R.P., Seliger, S.L., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R., (2019). Disparities in diffuse cortical white matter integrity between socioeconomic groups. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Jun 12 13:198. doi: 10.3389/ fnhum. 2019.00198
Beatty Moody, D.L., Taylor, A.D., Leibel, D.K., Al’Najjar, E., Katzel, L.I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli R., Seliger, S.L., Kouo, T., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2019). Lifetime discrimination, racism and subclinical cerebrovascular disease among African Americans. Health Psychology, 38, 63-74.
Shaked D., Katzel, L.I., Seliger, S.L., Gullapalli, R., Davatzikos, C., Erus, G., Rosenberger, W., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2018). The relations of socioeconomic status and executive function: is prefrontal cortex volume a mediator? Neurosychology, 32, 985-995.
Pantesco, E.J., Leibel, D.K., Ashe, J.J., Waldstein, S.R., Katzel, L.I., Liu, H.B>, Weng, N.P., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Beatty Moody, D.L. (2018). Multiple forms of discrimination, social status, and telomere length: interactions within race. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98, 119-126
Wendell, C.R., Waldstein, S.R., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2017). Distributions of subclinical cardiovascular disease in a socioeconomically and racially diverse sample: the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. Stroke, 48, 850-856.
Waldstein, S.R., Dore, G.A., Davatzikos, C., Katzel, L.I., Gullapalli, R., Seliger, S.L., Kouo, T., Rosenberger, W.R., Erus, G., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2017). Differential association of socioeconomic status to brain volumes and white matter lesions in African Americans and Whites: the HANDLS SCAN study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 327-335.
Kisser, J.E., Allen, A.J., Katzel, L.I., Wendell, C.R., Siegel, E.L., Lefkowitz, D.M., & Waldstein, S.R. (2016). Relations of blood pressure and head injury to cerebral blood flow. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 365, 9-14.
Waldstein, S.R., Beatty Moody, D.L., McNeely, J.M., Allen, A.J., Sprung, M.R., Shah, M.T., Al’Najjar, E., Evans, M.K., & Zonderman, A.B. (2016). Relations of race and poverty status to cardiovascular risk factors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. BMC Public Health, 16:258, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-2945-9
Allen, A.J., Kuczmarski, M.F., Evans, M.K., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2016). Interactive relations of food insecurity and race to diet quality reveals resilience among Blacks. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 3, 706-712
Waldstein, S.R. & Elias, M.F. (Eds.) (2015) Neuropsychology of Cardiovascular Disease (2nd Ed.) New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Dore, G.A., Waldstein, S.R., Evans, M.K, & Zonderman, A.B. (2015). Diabetes and cognitive function in the HANDLS study: Moderation by race and poverty status. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 643-652
Cooper, D.C., Thayer, J.F., & Waldstein, S.R. (2014). Coping with racism: the impact of prayer on cardiovascular reactivity and post-stress recovery in African American women. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 47, 218-230
Wendell C.R., Waldstein, S. R., & Zonderman, A. B. (2014). Nonlinear associations between trajectories of total cholesterol and cognitive change over time. Neuropsychology, 28, 106-112
Shah, M.T., Zonderman, A.B., & Waldstein, S.R. (2013). Sex and age differences in the relation of depressive symptoms to blood pressure. American Journal of Hypertension, 26, 1413-1420