Ann Olincy, M.D., Ph.D.


Education/Training

Institution and Location
 Degree, if applicable
 Year(s)
 Field of Study
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
 B.A.
 1979-1983
 Biology
U.C.L.A. School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
 MPH
 1984-1986
 Epidemiology
Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN
 MD 1986-1990
 Medicine


A. Positions and Employment
1990-1991 Intern, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.
1991-1993 Resident Physician, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.
1993-1994 Chief Resident, Veterans Affairs/Psychiatric Emergency Services, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.
1994-1996 Research Fellow and Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO.
1996-1997 Research Fellow and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO.
1996-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO.
2003-present Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO.

Honors
1994 Recipient Laughlin Fellow Award, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.
1998 Recipient Jay Scully Teacher of the Year Award, PGYIV Psychopharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.
1999 Travel Awardee, Bristol Myers-Squibb/American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
2000 Recipient Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
2002 Recipient of the Twenty-first Eleanor Steele Teacher of the Year Award, PGYIV Psychopharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.


B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

Olincy A, Young, DA, Freedman, R. Increased Levels of the Nicotine Metabolite Cotinine in Schizophrenic Smokers Compared to Other Smokers. Biological Psychiatry 42:1-5, 1997.
Freedman R, Coon H, Myles-Worsley M, Orr-Urtreger A, Olincy A, Davis A, Polymeropoulos M, Holik J, Hopkins J, Hoff M, Rosenthal J, Waldo MC, Yaw J, Young DA, Breese CR, Adams C, Patterson D, Adler LE, Kruglyak L, Leonard S, Byerley W. Linkage of a Neurophysiological Deficit in Schizophrenia to a Chromosome 15 Locus. Proc Natl Acad Sci 94:587-592, 1997.
Olincy A, Ross RG, Young DA, Freedman R. Age Diminshes Performonce on an Antisaccade Eye Movement Tasks. Neurobiology of Aging 18:483-489, 1997.
Olincy A, Ross RG, Roath M, Freedman R. Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements After Cigarette Smoking in Schizophrenic Patients. Neuropsychopharmacology 18:175-185, 1998.
Ross RG, Olincy A, Harris JG, Radant A, Adler LE, Freedman R. Anticipatory Saccades during Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements and Familial Transmission of Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 44: 690-97, 1998.
Olincy A, Leonard S, Young DA, Sullivan B, Freedman R. Decreased Bombesin Peptide Response in Schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology 20: 52-59, 1999.
Ross RG, Olincy A, Harris JG, Radant A, Hawkins M, Adler LE, Freedman R. Evidence for Bilineal Inheritance of Physiological Indicators of Risk in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia, American Journal Medical Genetics: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 88:188-199, 1999.
Ross RG, Olincy A, Radant A. Amplitude Criteria and Anticipatory Saccades During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements in Schizophrenia. Psychophysiology 36:464-468,1999.
Ross RG, Olincy A, Radant A, Harris JG, Compagnon N, Freedman R. The Effects of Age on Smooth Pursuit Tracking Task in Adults with Schizophrenia and Normals. Biological Psychiatry 46:383-391, 1999.
Olincy A, Ross RG, Harris JG, Young DA, McAndrews MA, Cawthra E, McRae KA, Sullivan B, Adler LE, Freedman R. The P50 Auditory Evoked Potential in Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: Comparison with Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 47:969-977, 2000.
Arciniegas D, Olincy A, Topkoff J, McRae K, Cawthra E, Filley CM, Reite M, Adler LE. Impaired Auditory Gating and P50 Nonsuppression Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 12:77-85, 2000.
Ross RG, Olincy A, Harris JG, Sullivan B, Radant A. Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements in Schizophrenia and Attentional Dysfunction: Adults with Schizophrenia, ADHD and a Normal Comparison Group. Biological Psychiatry, 48:197-203, 2000.
Ross RG, Olincy A, Radant A. Which Duration of Post-Saccadic Slowing Identifies Anticipatory Saccades During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements? Psychophysiology, 38:325-333, 2001.
Adler LE, Olincy A, Cawthra E, Amass L, Freedman, R. Reversal of Diminished Inhibitory Sensory Gating in Cocaine Addicts by a Nicotinic Cholinergic Mechanism. Neuropsychopharmacology, 24:671-679, 2001.
Kisley MA, Olincy A, Freedman R. The Effect of State on Sensory Gating: Comparison of Waking, REM and non-REM Sleep. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112:1154-1165, 2001.
Freedman R, Leonard S, Olincy A, Kauffman CA, Malaspina D, Clonninger CR, Surakic D, Faraone SV, Tsuang MT. Evidence for Multigenic Inheritance in Schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 105:784-800, 2001.
Ross RG, Olincy A, Mikulich SK, Radant AD, Harris JG, Waldo M, Compagnon N, Heinlein S, Leonard S, Zerbe GO, Adler L, Freedman R. Admixture Analysis of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements in Probands with Schizophrenia and Their Relatives Suggests Gain and Leading Saccades are Potential Endophenotypes. Psychophysiology, 39:809-819, 2002.
Olincy A, Johnson LL, Ross RG. Differential Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Performance of a Smooth Pursuit and a Saccadic Eye Movement Task in Schizophrenia. Psychiatric Research, 117:223-236 2003.