Faculty

M.H. Martica H Hall, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Clinical and Translational Science

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Email
Website
Sleep and Chronobiology Center
Assistant
Linda Willrich
willrichl@upmc.edu

Education & Training

PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Science Biological and Health Psychology
University of PittsburghSleep Medicine

Professional Affiliations

Fellow, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research
Member, American Psychosomatic Society
Member, Sleep Research Society

Selected Honors & Awards

Neil Miller Award, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research

Research Interests

Mechanisms of sleep health; Psychosocial determinants of sleep; Impact of race and ethnicity and sex on sleep
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Hall M, Mulukutla S, Kline CD, Samuelsson LB, Taylor BJ, Thayer JF, Krafty RT, Frank E, Kupfer DJ: Objective sleep duration is prospectively associated with endothelial health. Sleep, 40(1):zsw003, 2017.
  2. Taylor BJ, Matthews KA, Hasler BP, Roecklein KA, Kline CE, Buysse DJ, Kravitz HM, Tiani AG, Harlow SD, Hall M. Bedtime variability and metabolic health in midlife women: The SWAN Sleep Study. Sleep, 39(2):457-65, 2016.
  3. Hall M, Casement MD, Troxel WM, Matthews KA, Bromberger J, Kravitz HM, Krafty RT, Buysse DJ: Chronic stress is prospectively associated with sleep in midlife women: The SWAN sleep study. Sleep, 38(10):1645-54, 2015.
  4. Hall M, Matthews K, Kravitz H, Gold E, Buysse DJ, Bromberger J, Owens J, Sowers MF. Race and financial strain are independent correlates of sleep in mid-life women: The SWAN Sleep Study. Sleep, 32(1):73-82, 2009.
  5. Hall M, Vasko R, Buysse DJ, Ombao H, Chen Q, Cashmere JD, Kupfer DJ, Thayer JF. Acute stress affects heart rate variability during sleep. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66:56-62, 2004.

Education Interests

Mentoring undergraduate and graduate students; Mentoring postodoctoral fellows

Martica Hall, PhD, Receives the Sleep Research Society’s Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award

Dr. Martica Hall with Mentees

Congratulations to Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Clinical and Translational Science Martica Hall, PhD , who has received the Sleep Research Society Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award for excellence in education related to sleep and circadian research. The award honors outstanding educational contributions to disseminating the knowledge base, research methods and health and safety significance of...

Dr. Martica Hall’s Groundbreaking Research Ties Sleep to Effects on Physical Health

Dr. Martica Hall and Mentees in her Lab

Martica Hall, PhD , Professor of Psychiatry, doesn’t spend her days forging new ground in oil field exploration like her father did, but she certainly is doing so in the field of dreams we call sleep. Dr. Hall was born in Venezuela and her dad’s work as a geologist in the oil business kept her family overseas, living in Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia, until she moved to Miami for high school. Likely...

Dr. Stephen Smagula Correlates Greater Sleep Fragmentation and Less Sustained/Sharply Segregated Resting and Active Periods in Strained Caregivers with Depression Severity

Dr. Stephen Smagula

Depression is associated with disturbances to sleep and the 24-hour sleep-wake pattern, or rest-activity rhythm (RAR). However, there remains a need to identify the specific sleep/RAR correlates of depression symptom severity in population subgroups, such as strained dementia caregivers, who are at elevated risk for major depressive disorder. In a five-year study led by Dr. Smagula’s mentor, Martica Hall, PhD,...