Jennifer Knight, MD

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology

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Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

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Biography

Dr. Knight completed her undergraduate training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her medical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed her residency training in a combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry program at Rush University in Chicago, and is double board certified in both specialties. She also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Research Interests

Dr. Knight’s research interests involve investigating the physiologic and immunologic effects that account for the relationship between psychosocial factors and clinical outcomes in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Clinically, she is the Medical Director of the Psycho-Oncology Program at Froedtert and MCW and specializes in general and psycho-oncology psychosomatic medicine consultation. She sees patients at the MCW Cancer Center and at Froedtert Hospital. She is on faculty at the Neuroscience Research Center and is also a Clinical Member of the MCW Cancer Center in the Transplantation Biology and Immunotherapy Research Program.

Interleukin (IL)-6: A good kid hanging out with bad friends (and why sauna is good for health).

(Raison CL, Knight JM, Pariante C.) Brain Behav Immun. 2018 Oct;73:1-2.
Repurposing existing medications as cancer therapy: design and feasibility of a randomized pilot investigating propranolol administration in patients receiving hematopoietic cell transplantation.

(Knight JM, Kerswill SA, Hari P, Cole SW, Logan BR, D'Souza A, Shah NN, Horowitz MM, Stolley MR, Sloan EK, Giles KE, Costanzo ES, Hamadani M, Chhabra S, Dhakal B, Rizzo JD.) BMC Cancer. 2018 May 24;18(1):593.
Increasing provider awareness of and recommendations for yoga and meditation classes for cancer patients.

(Koula MJ, Knight JM.) Support Care Cancer. 2018 Oct;26(10):3635-3640.
Severity, course, and predictors of sleep disruption following hematopoietic cell transplantation: a secondary data analysis from the BMT CTN 0902 trial.

(Jim HSL, Sutton S, Majhail NS, Wood WA, Jacobsen PB, Wingard JR, Wu J, Knight JM, Syrjala KL, Lee SJ.) Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 Aug;53(8):1038-1043.
Donor body mass index does not predict graft versus host disease following hematopoietic cell transplantation.

(Turcotte LM, Wang T, Hemmer MT, Spellman SR, Arora M, Couriel D, Alousi A, Pidala J, Abdel-Azim H, Ahmed I, Beitinjaneh A, Buchbinder D, Byrne M, Callander N, Chao N, Choi SW, DeFilipp Z, Gadalla SM, Gale RP, Gergis U, Hashmi S, Hematti P, Holmberg L, Inamoto Y, Kamble RT, Lehmann L, MacMillan MA, McIver Z, Nishihori T, Norkin M, O'Brien T, Olsson RF, Reshef R, Saad A, Savani BN, Schouten HC, Seo S, Solh M, Verdonck L, Vij R, Wirk B, Yared J, Horowitz MM, Knight JM, Verneris MR.) Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 Jul;53(7):932-937.
Host interleukin 6 production regulates inflammation but not tryptophan metabolism in the brain during murine GVHD.

(Belle L, Zhou V, Stuhr KL, Beatka M, Siebers EM, Knight JM, Lawlor MW, Weaver C, Hashizume M, Hillard CJ, Drobyski WR.) JCI Insight. 2017 Jul 20;2(14).
Impact of pre-transplant depression on outcomes of allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

(El-Jawahri A, Chen YB, Brazauskas R, He N, Lee SJ, Knight JM, Majhail N, Buchbinder D, Schears RM, Wirk BM, Wood WA, Ahmed I, Aljurf M, Szer J, Beattie SM, Battiwalla M, Dandoy C, Diaz MA, D'Souza A, Freytes CO, Gajewski J, Gergis U, Hashmi SK, Jakubowski A, Kamble RT, Kindwall-Keller T, Lazarus HM, Malone AK, Marks DI, Meehan K, Savani BN, Olsson RF, Rizzieri D, Steinberg A, Speckhart D, Szwajcer D, Schoemans H, Seo S, Ustun C, Atsuta Y, Dalal J, Sales-Bonfim C, Khera N, Hahn T, Saber W.) Cancer. 2017 05 15;123(10):1828-1838.
Cancer and treatment distress psychometric evaluation over time: A BMT CTN 0902 secondary analysis.

(Syrjala KL, Sutton SK, Jim HS, Knight JM, Wood WA, Lee SJ, Jacobsen PB, Abidi MH, Yi JC.) Cancer. 2017 Apr 15;123(8):1416-1423.
Pretransplantation Exercise and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survival: A Secondary Analysis of Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN 0902).

(Wingard JR, Wood WA, Martens M, Le-Rademacher J, Logan B, Knight JM, Jacobsen PB, Jim H, Majhail NS, Syrjala K, Rizzo JD, Lee SJ.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2017 Jan;23(1):161-164.
Patient-Reported Outcomes and Socioeconomic Status as Predictors of Clinical Outcomes after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Study from the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network 0902 Trial.

(Knight JM, Syrjala KL, Majhail NS, Martens M, Le-Rademacher J, Logan BR, Lee SJ, Jacobsen PB, Wood WA, Jim HSL, Wingard JR, Horowitz MM, Abidi MH, Fei M, Rawls L, Rizzo JD.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2016 12;22(12):2256-2263.
Trajectories of Quality of Life after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Secondary Analysis of Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network 0902 Data.

(Jim HSL, Sutton SK, Small BJ, Jacobsen PB, Wood WA, Knight JM, Majhail NS, Syrjala KL, Lee SJ.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2016 11;22(11):2077-2083.
Patient-reported physical functioning predicts the success of hematopoietic cell transplantation (BMT CTN 0902).

(Wood WA, Le-Rademacher J, Syrjala KL, Jim H, Jacobsen PB, Knight JM, Abidi MH, Wingard JR, Majhail NS, Geller NL, Rizzo JD, Fei M, Wu J, Horowitz MM, Lee SJ.) Cancer. 2016 Jan 01;122(1):91-8.

Jennifer Knight, MD