Dr. Christina Jayne (CJ) Bathgate is a licensed clinical health psychologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at National Jewish Health. She provides in-person and telehealth-based care for adults with cystic fibrosis, and has built a telehealth research program with generous support from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Her main areas of focus include stress management, sleep, anxiety, depression, and interpersonal relationships. She is an Associate Board member for Project Helping, a Denver-based non-profit focused on improving mental wellness through volunteering, a Clinical Board member for MyStrength Digital Health, and a fundraising advocate for the Rocky Mountain Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She also created the wellness care (“WE-CARE”) program at National Jewish Health, which is designed to support frontline providers with the mental stresses and challenges that have emerged as a result of COVID-19.
Dr. Bathgate was the first graduate from our APA-accredited clinical health psychology doctoral program. In 2014 she was selected as the “Outstanding PhD Student of the Year,” an award given to one PhD student across the various doctoral programs in UCD’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Prior to her tenure at UCD, she completed Masters of Arts degree and a Masters of Education degree in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Michigan.
Some of CJ's projects are:
Richards, C., Bathgate, C., Nippins, M., Garton, J., Garlow, G., & Georgiopoulos, A. (2019). What Lifestyle Changes Can I Make To Address My Cystic Fibrosis? In Y. Sher, A. M. Georgiopoulos, & T. A. Stern (Eds.), Facing Cystic Fibrosis: A Guide for Patients and Their Families. Cambridge. MA: MGH Psychiatry Academy.
Bathgate, C. & Edinger, J. (2019). Diagnostic Criteria and Assessment of Sleep Disorders. In J. Savard and M. Ouellet (Eds.), Handbook of Sleep Disorders in Medical Conditions (pp. 3-26). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
Bathgate, C., Holm, K., Murphy, N., Kilbourn, K., & Wamboldt, F. (2019). Telehealth cognitive behavioral stress management: Preliminary pilot highlights and challenges. Pediatric Pulmonology, 54 supplement 2, S411.
Khassawneh, B., Bathgate, C., Tsai, Sheila, & Edinger, J. (2018). Neurocognitive Performance in Insomnia Disorder: The Impact of Hyperarousal and Short Sleep Duration. Journal of Sleep Research, 27(6), e12747. doi:10.1111/jsr.12747
Bathgate, C. & Fernandez-Mendoza, J. (2018). Insomnia, Short Sleep Duration, and High Blood Pressure: Recent Evidence and Future Directions for the Prevention and Management of Hypertension, Current Hypertension Reports, 20(6). doi: 10.1007/s11906-018-0850-6.
Bathgate, C., Edinger, J., & Krystal, A. (2017). Insomnia Patients with Objective Short Sleep Duration have a Blunted Response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. Sleep, 40(1). doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsw012. PubMed PMID: 28364452.
Bathgate, C., Edinger, J., Wyatt, J., & Krystal, A. (2016). Objective but not subjective short sleep duration associated with increased risk for hypertension in individuals with insomnia. Sleep, 39(5):1037-45. doi: 10.5665/sleep.5748.
Bathgate, C., Edinger, J., Manber, R., Buysse, D., Krystal, A., Thase, M., Wisniewski, S. (2016). Do patients with insomnia and comorbid moderate to severe, persistent depression respond differently to combined depression and insomnia treatment than to those with mild to moderate, less persistent depression? A report from the TRIAD study. Sleep, 39, A200.
Breitborde, N., Woolverton, C., Spencer, D., Bismark, A., Bell, E., Bathgate, C., Norman, K. (2015). Metacognitive skills training enhances computerized cognitive remediation outcomes among individuals with first-episode psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. doi:10.1111/eip.12289. [ePub ahead of print]