Professor James Blumenthal is JP Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Clinical Psychology and is board certified from the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Blumenthal is the recipient of several awards including an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, the Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, the Bakken Pioneer Award from the Cleveland Clinic Heart-Brain Institute, and the Michael L. Pollock Established Investigator Award from the American Association of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. 

He is a founding fellow of the American Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and holds fellowship status in the American Psychological Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.  He is former President of the American Psychosomatic Society and the Society of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. 

He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the MacArthur Foundation. His research focuses of psychological factors and coronary heart disease, lifestyle interventions (exercise, diet, coping) for psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular disease, and psychosocial aspects of solid organ transplantation. His current research involves treatment of anxiety in cardiac patients, behavioral treatment for resistant hypertension, and coping skills training for lung transplant recipients.