Jeffrey Greeson

Personal profile

Research interests

Research Expertise:
Health Psychology | Integrative Medicine | Mindfulness & Stress

My translational research program integrates basic science and behavioral medicine to better understand the link between being mindful, and being healthy. In addition to studying clinical outcomes of mindfulness training to reduce stress and stress-related symptoms, we also investigate the underlying mechanisms of mindfulness. These mechanisms include a number of biological and behavioral pathways, ranging from sleep patterns, to stress physiology and stress hormones, to emotion regulation, immune function, and gene expression – all of which are implicated in chronic disease risk.

Honors and Awards:
Fellow, The Institute for Integrative Heath
Distinguished Fellow, NIH/OBSSR Summer Institute in Behavioral RCTs
Ruth L. Kirchstein, NHLBI Institutional Training Grant

Member of:
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)

Recent Academic Projects:
Mindfulomics: Pioneering the field of Mindfulness, Stress & Health through the ‘Omics’ Sciences

Serenity Study: NIH-funded, multisite trial to study mindfulness training to reduce stress and lower blood pressure

Serenity NOW: pilot study through Penn Mental Health AIDS Research Center to study mindfulness, HIV & depression

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, doctorate

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Projects

2 Active
3 Finished

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Six-Month Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes

Greeson, J.

Pennsylvania State University

4/15/19 → 8/31/23

Project: Other project

Optimizing a self-directed mobile mindfulness intervention for improving cardiorespiratory failure survivors' psychological distress

Greeson, J.

Duke University

9/1/18 → 7/31/23

Project: Research project

Mindfulness to Promote Healthy Aging in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Greeson, J.

New Jersey Health Foundation, Inc. (NJHF)

2/15/19 → 2/15/20

Project: Other project

Mindfulomics: Pioneering the Field of Mindfulness, Stress & Health through the 'Omics' Sciences

Greeson, J.

The Institute for Integrative Health

6/1/18 → 9/30/19

Project: Other project

NHLBI Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research for Gabrielle (Abby) Chin

Greeson, J.

Kent State University

9/15/17 → 5/31/19

Project: Other project

Research Output

4513 Citations
26 h-Index
37 Article
4 Review article
2 Chapter
1 Comment/debate

Effects of mindfulness training programmes delivered by a self-directed mobile app and by telephone compared with an education programme for survivors of critical illness: A pilot randomised clinical trial

Cox, C. E., Hough, C. L., Jones, D. M., Ungar, A., Reagan, W., Key, M. D., Gremore, T., Olsen, M. K., Sanders, L., Greeson, J. M. & Porter, L. S., Jan 1 2019, In : Thorax. 74, 1, p. 33-42 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

9 Scopus citations

Mindfulness and physical disease: a concise review

Greeson, J. M. & Chin, G. R., Aug 2019, In : Current Opinion in Psychology. 28, p. 204-210 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

3 Scopus citations

Mindfulness Meditation Targets Transdiagnostic Symptoms Implicated in Stress-Related Disorders: Understanding Relationships between Changes in Mindfulness, Sleep Quality, and Physical Symptoms

Greeson, J. M., Zarrin, H., Smoski, M. J., Brantley, J. G., Lynch, T. R., Webber, D. M., Hall, M. H., Suarez, E. C. & Wolever, R. Q., Jan 1 2018, In : Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2018, 4505191.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

4 Scopus citations

The many facets of mindfulness and the prediction of change following mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)

Gawrysiak, M. J., Grassetti, S. N., Greeson, J. M., Shorey, R. C., Pohlig, R. & Baime, M. J., Apr 2018, In : Journal of Clinical Psychology. 74, 4, p. 523-535 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

7 Scopus citations

Perceived Stress in Patients with Common Gastrointestinal Disorders: Associations with Quality of Life, Symptoms and Disease Management

Edman, J. S., Greeson, J. M., Roberts, R. S., Kaufman, A. B., Abrams, D. I., Dolor, R. J. & Wolever, R. Q., Mar 2017, In : Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. 13, 2, p. 124-128 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

11 Scopus citations