Julie Wagner Ph.D.
Dr. Julie Wagner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Dr. Wagner is a licensed clinical health psychologist whose expertise includes health behavior change, psychosocial aspects of diabetes, and the relationship between depression and medical illness. Dr. Wagner is the Principal Investigator on a study of depression, diabetes, and coronary heart disease in women. She is a co-investigator on a study of lifestyle modification in patients with diabetes and silent myocardial ischemia. She is a consultant on a study of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for painful diabetic neuropathy. She is also studying the relationship between perceived racism and diabetes health outcomes. Dr. Wagner received a Young Investigator award from the NIDDK and National Center on Minority Health for a presentation on ethnic and racial differences in heart disease knowledge among people with diabetes. She has served on an NIH review panel for an RFA for new therapies for Type 1 diabetes. She is the recipient of the NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment award, a competitive federal program to promote junior clinical investigators. Clinically, Dr. Wagner created and now supervises a diabetes rotation in the Greater Hartford Consortium Clinical Psychology Internship Program. Dr. Wagner received an B.A. from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1992, a M.A. from the University of the Pacific in 1995, a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 2000, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven.
