Howard M. Kravitz, DO, MPH, is the Stanley G. Harris Family Professor of Psychiatry and professor of preventive medicine at Rush University and Rush Medical College. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, and is a co-editor of one book on sleep psychiatry. His areas of interest and expertise include and sleep medicine, mood and anxiety disorders, and psychiatric and psychosocial epidemiology.
Over the past two decades, his research and publications have been focused on his major research area, midlife women and their sleep and mental health as they traverse the menopausal transition. Most recently, he contributed an invited chapter on menopause and mental health for the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2nd edition, Volume 3 (Waltham, MA: Academic Press, 2016). Kravitz has been a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher (National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute of Aging) for almost 25 years for his studies on depression, anxiety and sleep. Altogether, Kravitz has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on 18 NIH-funded grants. Currently, he is the principal investigator for the Rush (Chicago) site of the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a multicenter study of menopause and aging in the U.S. Another area of interest is research ethics and human subjects protections, and he has chaired one of Rush’s two Institutional Review Boards for research for the past 14 years (since 2002). He is board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and neurology and in sleep medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is a senior attending physician on Rush’s medical staff. Among his teaching activities, Kravitz conducts a clinical interviewing seminar for medical students on their psychiatry rotations and teaches in the Medical College’s evidence based medicine curriculum. Finally, he holds a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, as an adjunct professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, where he has taught general epidemiology and psychosocial epidemiology, as well as mentored students on their MPH capstones, PhD dissertations and independent studies projects.
