Assistant Professor
Main Office Address
New York - Presbyterian Hospital
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-746-3738
Fax: 212-746-6168
E-mail: jaw9008@med.cornell.edu
Education and Government Service
1963 | A.B. | Cornell University |
1967 | M.D. | Cornell University Medical College |
1975 | Ph.D. | Cambridge University |
1967-1968 | Medical Internship | Cornell U. Medical College Rotating Internship |
1968-1969 | Neurology Residency | Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital |
1975-1977 | Psychiatry Residency | The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
1971-1973 | Laboratory Research in Ingestive Behavior Fellowship | Inst. of Neurological Sciences, Univ. Pennsylvania |
1969-1971 | Military Service | United States Air Force |
Professional Interests
Affective Disorders, Eating Disorders, Patient Databases, Residency Education, Quality of Care
Selected Publications
Wirth, J.B., & Fitzsimons, J.T. (1975). The failure of peripheral renin-angiotensin activation to induce sodium appetite. Journal of Physiology (Lond.), 251, 31-33.
Wirth, J.B., & Epstein, A.N. (1976). Ontogeny of thirst in the infant rat. American Journal of Physiology, 230, 188-198.
McHugh, P.R., Moran, T.H., & Wirth, J.B. (1982). Post-pyloric regulation of gastric emptying in rhesus monkeys. American Journal of Physiology, 243, R408-R415.
Wirth, J.B., & Folstein, M.F. (1982). Thirst and weight gain during maintenance hemodialysis. Psychosomatics, 23, 1125-1134.
Wirth, J.B., & McHugh, P.R. (1983). Gastric distention and short-term satiety in the rhesus monkey. American Journal of Physiology, 245, R174-R180.






