Education
PhD, West Virginia University, 2004
MA, West Virginia University, 2001
BA, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1998
Overview
Adam Spira is Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Faculty in the Department of Mental Health. His research is focused on: 1) disturbed sleep as a risk factor for poor health outcomes in older adults, including cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, and functional decline; and 2) psychopathology and its links with both sleep and cognition in older people.
Honors and Awards
Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award (AMTRA), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Student Assembly, May 2018
Fellow, Gerontological Society of America, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, May 2015
Insomnia Section Investigator Award, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, June 2013
Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award (AMTRA), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Student Assembly, May 2013
Barry Lebowitz Early Career Scientist Award, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, March 2013
International Junior Investigator Award, International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology, June 2009
JHSPH Faculty Innovation Fund Award, 2009-2010
Licensed psychologist in Maryland (# 04619, expires 03/31/2021)
Admitted to National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program, July 2007
Completed National Institute of Mental Health Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, July 2005
Higher Education Research Fund Fellowship, West Virginia University, 2002, 1999
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 1998