Three faculty members who have retired from the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences this year have been honored with emeritus/emerita status.
James Blumenthal, PhD, ABPP, Scott Moore, MD, PhD, and Patricia A. Resick, PhD, ABPP, have advanced our field in a number of notable ways, and their clinical work, research, and engagement with our education programs have impacted many people.
We are incredibly thankful for their service at Duke and wish them all the very best in their next chapter! Below are just a few highlights from their careers.
James Blumenthal, PhD, ABPP
J. P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
Division of Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
Retired in February 2024 after 45 years of service
James A. Blumenthal, PhD, ABPP, joined the Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty in 1979, providing patient care in the fledgling Duke University Preventive Approach to Cardiology (DUPAC) program and developing a research program in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
He established the Clinical Behavioral Medicine Program at DUPAC and helped develop certification guidelines for cardiac rehabilitation programs in North Carolina and throughout the country. He subsequently developed Duke’s Transplant Psychology Program and led the program for nearly 40 years.
Continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for 44 years, Blumenthal conducted research on lifestyle factors in health and disease, with a focus on cardiovascular disease and psychiatric illness. He led many clinical trials examining the impact of lifestyle factors such as exercise, diet, and stress on patient reported outcomes, disease biomarkers, and clinical events.
He co-authored more than 475 peer-reviewed publications, wrote 65 book chapters, and edited three books. He participated in numerous NIH scientific review panels and served as a reviewer for a number of scientific journals.
Blumenthal has taught and mentored many Duke undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows and served as a clinical supervisor for psychology interns and postdoctoral fellows.
Among Blumenthal’s numerous awards and honors was being named the J. P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in 2014. His work was recognized by the Michael Pollock Established Investigator Award from the American Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and by the Bakken Pioneer Award from the Cleveland Clinic Heart-Brain Institute. Blumenthal also received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the Excellence in Health Psychology Research award from the Society of Health Psychology.
Blumenthal was widely recognized as the leading behavioral science researcher in the cardiac rehabilitation field and behavioral approaches to the clinical management of cardiovascular disorders. His work developing and implementing biobehavioral interventions for coronary artery disease, hypertension, and depression serves as a model for interdisciplinary research integrating science and clinical practice.
Read more about Blumenthal’s career at Duke
Scott Moore, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
Retired in June 2024 after 32 years of service
Scott Moore, MD, PhD, completed his medical and doctoral degrees at the University of Virginia in 1986; a few years later, he came to Duke for psychiatry residency and joined the Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty after completing his training in 1992.
Moore’s Duke career has been focused on research, with more than 130 peer-reviewed publications book chapters to his name and over 30 years of continuous VA and/or NIH research funding. He and his team have worked to develop a model to investigate physiological effects of acute alcohol intoxication, with the long-term goal of expanding the model to explore effects of other anxiolytic agents and elucidate the basic mechanisms underlying the development of anxiety.
In addition, Moore has collaborated with Duke neurologists to characterize the genetic component of age-dependent neurodegeneration. His team is also examining the neurobiological basis of seizure-induced memory disruption using in vitro electrophysiological techniques to better understand the basic mechanisms of memory.
Throughout his time at Duke, Moore has also maintained a clinical practice at the Durham Veterans Affairs Heath Care System (DVAHCS), where he has worked in electroconvulsive therapy, consult-liaison, and posttraumatic stress disorder treatment services. He has also been an active member of the Duke electroconvulsive therapy service since 1992. Moore has served as medical director of the DVAHCS neuropsychiatry clinic since 2002 and the DVAHCS smoking cessation clinic since 2006.
Patricia A. Resick, PhD, ABPP
Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
Retired in December 2023 after ten years of service
Prior to joining the Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty in 2013, Patricia A. Resick, PhD, ABPP, held faculty positions at the University of South Dakota, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Missouri-St. Louis (where she held an endowed professorship), and Boston University.
From 2003 to 2013, Resick was director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System.
Throughout her career, Resick—who received her PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia—has provided services and conducted extensive research on the effects of traumatic events. She has developed and tested therapeutic interventions for PTSD, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), an effective short-term treatment for PTSD and comorbid symptoms that is strongly recommended in PTSD treatment guidelines in various countries.
Starting in 2006, Resick led an initiative to disseminate CPT throughout the VA health system and participated in learning collaboratives throughout North Carolina. Most recently, she and her colleagues published a second edition of the CPT therapist manual and a self-help manual.
Resick, whose research was continuously funded for 40+ years, has published 12 books and more than 350 journal articles and book chapters. She has served on the editorial boards of nine scientific journals and was an associate editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She also held multiple leadership roles in several professional associations, including president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) in 2003 and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) in 2008.
Resick has received numerous awards, including an Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Field of PTSD from ISTSS (2004), the Leadership Award by the Association for VA Psychologist Leaders (2009), and the ABCT recognition of Outstanding Contributions by an Individual for Educational/Training Activities (2012). She also received a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from several professional organizations: Division 56 of the American Psychological Association (2013), ISTSS (2019), and ABCT (2021).