Joel Yager, MD

Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry-Outpatient


FacultyPhoto
Medical School
  • MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (1965)
Undergraduate School
  • BS, City University of New York System (NY) (1961)
Residency
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Jacobi) Program, Chief Resident, Psychiatry (1969)
Languages
English
Department
Psychiatry-Outpatient

Recognitions

  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Academic Psychiatry (2009)
  • Marvin Miller Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association for Technology in Psychiatry (2006)
  • Inaugural Distinguished Life Fellow, Association for Academic Psychiatry (2006)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, National Eating Disorders Association (2007)
  • Special Presidential Commendation Award, American Psychiatric Association (2013)
  • Distinguished Service Award, American Psychiatric Association (2014)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Psychiatric Society (2018)

Publications

  • Yager J: The Practice of Psychiatry in the 21st Century: Implications for psychiatric training and continuing education. Academic Psychiatry, 2011; 35(5): 283-292.
  • Osterhout, CI, Scher LM, Hiltly DM, Yager J. et al. Bulimia Nervosa. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/286485-overview
  • Self-Objectification in Women: Causes, Consequences, and Counteractions. Edited by Rachel M. Calogero, Stacey Tantleff-Dunn, and J. Kevin Thompson Accepted for publication. Eating Disorders Review, July, 2011
  • Simon G. Gowers and Lynne Green. Eating Disorders: Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Children and Young People. . Accepted for publication. Eating Disorders Review, July, 2011
  • This is your mind on music. Review of Alex Ross: All the Rest is Noise.; Alex Ross: Listen to This. APA Lifeliners Newsletter, August 2011
  • Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. by David Eagleman. APA Lifeliners Newsletter, August 2011
  • Eating Disorders and the Brain by Bryan Lask and Ian Frampton. Eating Disorders Review. Accepted for publication, October, 2011
  • Developing an Evidence-Based Classification of Eating Disorders Scientific Findings for DSM-5. Eating Disorders Review. Accepted for publication November 2011.
  • Yager J. Personal Reflections on Learning and Teaching Psychiatry. International Review of Psychiatry June 2013; 25(3): 357–363.
  • Robert Freedman, M.D.; David A. Lewis, M.D.; Robert Michels, M.D.; Daniel S. Pine, M.D.; Susan K. Schultz, M.D.; Carol A. Tamminga, M.D.; Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.; Susan Shur-Fen Gau, M.D., Ph.D.; Daniel C. Javitt, M.D., Ph.D.; Maria A. Oquendo, M.D., Ph.D.; Patrick E. Shrout, Ph.D.; Eduard Vieta, M.D., Ph.D.; Joel Yager, M.D. The Initial Field Trials of DSM-5: New Blooms and Old Thorns. Am J Psychiatry 2013, 170: 1-5.
  • Feinstein RE, Yager J. Advanced Psychotherapy Training: Psychotherapy Scholars’ Track, and the Apprenticeship Model. Academic Psychiatry. 2013 Jul 1;37(4):248-53
  • Yager J, Scher LM, Hilty DM, Osterhout CI. Bulimia Nervosa. Medscape Reference. Updated April 19, 2013. Available at: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/286485-overview.
  • Savin D, Legha, R, Novins, D, Yager J, Cordaro A, Chardavoyne J, Chak T, Ka S. Spanning Distance and Culture in Psychiatric Education: A Teleconferencing Collaboration between Cambodia and the United States. Academic Psychiatry 2013, 37(5) :355-359
  • Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinical Handbook. Eating Disorders Review. Accepted for publication November 2011.
  • Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders by Emily Fox-Kales. Eating Disorders Review. Accepted for publication, February 2012
  • Psychiatric Times – Career Day Consultant, Live Webinar. November 2, 2011
  • Yager J, Fochtmann L, Kunkle R, Plovnick R. A professional association Perspective on Systematic Reviews and their Utility for Guideline Development. Paper presented at AHRQ: Leading through innovation and collaboration. AHRQ annual conference, Bethesda, MD, Sept 19,2011
  • Becker A, Yager J From Lessons Learned: Mentee Perspective On Mentorship. Chapter In Roberts L (Editor) Professional Career Development In Academic Medicine. Submitted December 2011
  • Yager J What I’ve loved about being an academic psychiatrist. Academic Psychiatry (perspective). Accepted for publication Feb 16, 2012
  • Rao NR, Yager J. Acculturation, Education, Training, and Workforce Issues of IMGs: Current Status and Future Directions. Academic Psychiatry 2012;36:268-270.
  • Rao NR, Yager J (eds). Special Issue: Promoting the Success of International Medical Graduates in Psychiatry Training. Academic Psychiatry 36 (v) July-August 2012;36
  • • Robert Freedman, M.D.; David A. Lewis, M.D.; Robert Michels, M.D.; Daniel S. Pine, M.D.; Susan K. Schultz, M.D.; Carol A. Tamminga, M.D.; Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.; Susan Shur-Fen Gau, M.D., Ph.D.; Daniel C. Javitt, M.D., Ph.D.; Maria A. Oquendo, M.D., Ph.D.; Patrick E. Shrout, Ph.D.; Eduard Vieta, M.D., Ph.D.; Joel Yager, M.D. The Initial Field Trials of DSM-5: New Blooms and Old Thorns. Am J Psychiatry 2013, 170: 1-5.
  • Body Image: A Handbook of Science, Practice and Prevention, second edition, edited by Thomas F. Cash and Linda Smolak. Eating Disorders Review, Accepted August 2012
  • Body Image: A Handbook of Science, Practice and Prevention, second edition, edited by Thomas F. Cash and Linda Smolak. Eating Disorders Review, Accepted August 2012
  • Yager J, Devlin M, Halmi K, Herzog D, Mitchell JE, Powers PS, Zerbe K. Guideline Watch: Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders, published on line, August 2012, Psychiatry On Line/American Psychiatric Association
  • Becker A, Yager J From Lessons Learned: Mentee Perspective On Mentorship. Chapter 20 In Roberts L (Editor) Professional Career Development In Academic Medicine. Springer, 2013. P 157-162.
  • Yager J. Personal Reflections on Learning and Teaching Psychiatry. International Review of Psychiatry in press, 2012
  • Feinstein RE, Yager J. "Advanced Psychotherapy Training: Psychotherapy Scholars¹ Track, and the Apprenticeship Model." Academic Psychiatry. Accepted for publication, January 2013
  • Yager J, McIntyre JS. DSM 5 Clinical and Public Health Committee – Challenges and Considerations. Commentary, American Journal of Psychiatry, to be published June 2013
  • Weintraub P, Dunn T, Yager J. Relationship of Gambling Disorder and Other Behavioral Addictions to Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders, Chapter in Dennis A, Brewerton TB (eds), Eating Disorders, Addictions and Substance Use Disorders: Research, Clinical and Treatment Aspects, Springer. 2014, chapter 18.
  • Yager J, Carney T, Touyz S, Is involuntary (compulsory) treatment ever justified in patients with SE-AN: An international perspective”. Chapter in Managing Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa: A Clinician' Guide, edited by Stephen Touyz, Daniel Le Grange, Phillipa Hay and Hubert Lacey; : Routledge (New York) 2015
  • Yager J, McIntyre J. The role of guidelines in mental healthcare in the U.S.A.. To be published in "Die Psychiatrie", a bilannual English-German journal of psychiatry. Special issue, 2015 "Guidelines globally for mental healthcare".Accepted for publication, November 2014.
  • Yager J. The Evolving Fields of Patient Safety in Psychiatry. Chapter - foreward to Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry,edited by Geetha Jayaram, M.D., Oxford University Press.
  • Yager J, Fochtmann L. How APA Keeps Bias out of Practice Guidelines. Psychiatric News 2013 (Feb 1); 48( 3): 11-20
  • Daniel Savin, Rupi Legha, Anthony Cordaro, Chak Thida, Joel Yager, Ka Sunbaunat, John Chardavoyne, Doug Novins Spanning Distance and Culture in Psychiatric Education: A Teleconferencing Collaboration between Cambodia and the United States. Academic Psychiatry, Accepted for Publication
  • Yager J. IMG training in North American psychiatry: Where we’re at, and where we’re going. Chapter -- Foreward to Rao N, Robert L editors. Training Manual for International Medical Graduates in Psychiatry. Springer. Accepted for publication, October 2014.
  • Yager J. Forward to second edition of Irene Dancyger and Victor Fornari (eds) Evidence Based Treatments for Eating Disorders: Children, Adolescents, and Adults. NOVA, 2014
  • Feinstein RE, Heiman N, Yager J. Common Factors Affecting Psychotherapy Outcomes; Some Implications for Teaching Psychotherapy. Journal of Psychiatric Practice. Accepted for publication May 27, 2014
  • Feinstein RE, Huhn R, Yager J. Apprenticeship Model of Psychotherapy Training and Supervision: Utilizing six tools of experiential learning. Academic Psychiatry. Published on line Feb 6, 2015. DOI 10.1007/s40596-015-0280-6.
  • Libbon RH, Hamalian G, Yager J. Self-cannibalism (autosarcophagy) in psychosis, a case report". J Nervous and Mental Diseases, 2015, 203: 152-153.
  • Yager J, Scher LM, Hilty DM, Osterhout CI. Bulimia Nervosa. Medscape Reference. Updated March 31, 2014. Available at: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/286485-overview.
  • Yager J. Anorexia nervosa; Bulimia nervosa; Binge eating disorder; Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder; Night eating syndrome. Lecture published MP3 by Audio Digest. May 2014.
  • Moroze RM, Dunn TM, Craig Holland J, Yager J, Weintraub P. Microthinking About Micronutrients: A Case of Transition From Obsessions About Healthy Eating to Near-Fatal "Orthorexia Nervosa" and Proposed Diagnostic Criteria. Psychosomatics. 2014 Mar 19. pii: S0033-3182(14)00050-4. doi: 10.1016/j.psym.2014.03.003. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Yager J, Kenna H, Hantke M. From Networking to Next-Working: How an Academic Department "Retreated" and Advanced at the Same Time. Acad Psychiatry. 2014 May 2. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Yager J, Mcintyre JS. DSM-5 Clinical and Public Health Committee: challenges and considerations. Am J Psychiatry. 2014 Feb;171(2):142-4. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13030347. No abstract available.
  • Yager J, Kunkle R, Fochtmann LJ, Reid SM, Plovnick R, Nininger JE, Silverman JJ, Vergare MJ. Who's your expert? Use of an expert opinion survey to inform development of American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines. Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Jun;38(3):376-82. doi: 10.1007/s40596-014-0046-6. Epub 2014 Feb 4.
  • Moroze RM, Dunn TM, Craig Holland J, Yager J, Weintraub P. Microthinking about micronutrients: a case of transition from obsessions about healthy eating to near-fatal "orthorexia nervosa" and proposed diagnostic criteria. Psychosomatics. 2015 Jul-Aug;56(4):397-403. PubMed PMID: 25016349
  • Feinstein R, Heiman N, Yager J. Common factors affecting psychotherapy outcomes: some implications for teaching psychotherapy. J Psychiatr Pract. 2015 May;21(3):180-9. PubMed PMID: 25955260
  • Libbon R, Hamalian G, Yager J. Self-cannibalism (autosarcophagy) in psychosis: a case report. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2015 Feb;203(2):152-3. PubMed PMID: 25629666
  • Feinstein RE, Huhn R, Yager J. Apprenticeship Model of Psychotherapy Training and Supervision: Utilizing Six Tools of Experiential Learning. Acad Psychiatry. 2015 Oct;39(5):585-9. PubMed PMID: 25663305
  • Silverman JJ, Galanter M, Jackson-Triche M, Jacobs DG, Lomax JW 2nd, Riba MB, Tong LD, Watkins KE, Fochtmann LJ, Rhoads RS, Yager J. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Aug 1;172(8):798-802. PubMed PMID: 26234607
  • Yager J. The Futility of Arguing About Medical Futility in Anorexia Nervosa: The Question Is How Would You Handle Highly Specific Circumstances?. Am J Bioeth. 2015;15(7):47-50. PubMed PMID: 26147266
  • Yager J. Updating Empathy. Psychiatry. 2015;78(2):134-40. PubMed PMID: 26168091
  • Yager J. Addressing Patients' Psychic Pain. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Oct 1;172(10):939-43. PubMed PMID: 26423477
  • Yager J, Katzman JE. Bureaucrapathologies: Galloping Regulosis, Assessment Degradosis, and Other Unintended Organizational Maladies in Post-Graduate Medical Education. Acad Psychiatry. 2015 Jun 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26108393
  • Yager J, Carney T, Touyz S, Is involuntary (compulsory) treatment ever justified in patients with SE-AN: An international perspective”. Chapter in Managing Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa: A Clinician' Guide, edited by Stephen Touyz, Daniel Le Grange, Phillipa Hay and Hubert Lacey; : Routledge (New York) accepted for publication, 2015.
  • Yager J, McIntyre J. The role of guidelines in mental healthcare in the U.S.A. Die Psychiatrie, 2015; 12 (1): 42-43.
  • Yager J. The Evolving Fields of Patient Safety in Psychiatry. Forward to Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry,edited by Geetha Jayaram, M.D., Oxford University Press. New York, 2015, pages vii to xii.
  • Yager J. IMG training in North American psychiatry: Where we’re at, and where we’re going. Forward to Rao N, Robert L editors. Training Manual for International Medical Graduates in Psychiatry. Springer.
  • Hales DJ, Moscicki EK, Boland R, Fogelson D, Cook IA, Yager J. Self-Assessment Activity: Understanding the Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Medications. FOCUS. 2014, 12 (2- Spring): 172-177.
  • Silverman JJ, Galanter M, Jackson-Triche M, Jacobs DG, Lomax JW 2nd, Riba MB, Tong LD, Watkins KE, Fochtmann LJ, Rhoads RS, Yager J. Practice Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults, third edition. Monograph. American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, Virginia, 2016, p 1-162.
  • Yager J , Mehler PS, Yager ED, Yager AR. Integrated Care for Binge Eating Disorder and Other Eating Disorders. Accepted for publication in Feinstein RE, Connelly JV, Feinstein M (eds). Psychiatry, Primary Care, and Medical Specialties: Pathways for Integrated Care. Oxford University Press, to be published 2017.
  • Hilty D, Shoemaker E, Myers K, Snowdy C, Yellowlees P, Yager J. Need for and Steps Toward a Clinical Guideline for the Telemental Health Care of Children and Adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Accepted for publication, Sept 2015.
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. Potential Applications of the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) to Clinical Psychiatric Practice: How RDoC Might Be Used in Assessment, Diagnostic Processes, Case Formulation, Treatment Planning, and Clinical Notes. J Clin Psychiatry. 2016 Dec 20. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28002661
  • Reus VI, Fochtmann LJ, Eyler AE, Hilty DM, Horvitz-Lennon M, Jibson MD, Lopez OL, Mahoney J, Pasic J, Tan ZS, Wills CD, Rhoads R, Yager J. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline on the Use of Antipsychotics to Treat Agitation or Psychosis in Patients With Dementia. Am J Psychiatry. 2016 May 1;173(5):543-6. PubMed PMID: 27133416
  • Hilty DM, Shoemaker EZ, Myers K, Snowdy CE, Yellowlees PM, Yager J. Need for and Steps Toward a Clinical Guideline for the Telemental Healthcare of Children and Adolescents. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2016 Apr;26(3):283-95. PubMed PMID: 26871510
  • Duffy FF, Fochtmann LJ, Clarke DE, Barber K, Hong SH, Yager J, Moscicki EK, Plovnick RM. Psychiatrists' Comfort Using Computers and Other Electronic Devices in Clinical Practice. Psychiatr Q. 2016 Sep;87(3):571-84. PubMed PMID: 26667248
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. Tools for Practical Psychotherapy: A trans-theoretical collection (or interventions which have, at least, worked for us). Accepted for publication June, 2016 - Journal of Psychiatric Practice
  • Yager J, Katzman J. Bureaucrapathologies. http://atlasofscience.org/bureaucrapathologies/ published on line Nov 27, 2015
  • Lipman M, Calderone J, Yager J, Waugh M. Wellness- An Integrated Care Approach. Accepted for publication in Feinstein RE, Connelly JV, Feinstein M (eds). Psychiatry, Primary Care, and Medical Specialties: Pathways for Integrated Care. Oxford University Press, to be published 2017.
  • Yager J, Carney T, Touyz S, Is involuntary (compulsory) treatment ever justified in patients with SE-AN: An international perspective”. Chapter 12 in Managing Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa: A Clinician's Guide, edited by Stephen Touyz, Daniel Le Grange, Phillipa Hay and Hubert Lacey. Routledge (New York) 2016, pp185-201.
  • Yager J, Bagga M, Hilty DM. Creating a Positive Early Career Environment. Chapter 30 in Roberts LW, Hilty DM (eds). Handbook of Career Development in Academic Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, American Psychiatric Press, Inc, accepted for publication, May 2016.
  • Randhawa G, Phillips L, Hilty D, Yager J. Bulimia Nervosa. Medscape Drugs & Diseases. Updated June 7,2016. Available at https://authoring.medscape.com/content/286485.
  • Yager J , Mehler PS, Yager ED, Yager AR. Integrated Care for Binge Eating Disorder and Other Eating Disorders. Accepted for publication in Feinstein RE, Connelly JV, Feinstein M (eds). Psychiatry, Primary Care, and Medical Specialties: Pathways for Integrated Care. Oxford University Press, to be published 2017.
  • Silverman JJ, Galanter M, Jackson-Triche M, Jacobs DG, Lomax JW 2nd, Riba MB, Tong LD, Watkins KE, Fochtmann LJ, Rhoads RS, Yager J. Practice Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults, third edition. Monograph. American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, Virginia, 2016, p 1-162.
  • Yager J. International Medical Graduate Training in American Psychiatry: Where we are and where we're going. in Rao NR, Roberts LW (eds). International Graduate Physicians: A guide to training. Springer, 2016; chapter one, pp 3-10.
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. A Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy With Chronically Suicidal Patients: Wrestling With the Angel of Death. Psychiatry. 2017 Fall;80(3):207-220. PubMed PMID: 29087254
  • Feinstein RE, Yager J. A Live Threat Violence Simulation Exercise for Psychiatric Outpatient Departments: A Valuable Aid to Training in Violence Prevention. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29086243
  • Yager J, Kay J. Much of What We Have Needed to Know as Academic Managers We Learned Leading Teenage Jazz Groups. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Oct 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29030740
  • Yager J. Contending With Preplanned Death: Questions for Clinicians. J Psychiatr Pract. 2017 Sep;23(5):366-374. PubMed PMID: 28902070
  • Yager J, Kay J. Overextended Personality Disorder is Epidemic in Academic Medical Centers: Proposed Criteria and Preliminary Treatment Suggestions. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Sep 1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28864956
  • Yager J, Taintor Z. Endemic Publishiasis: Redux and Growing. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Aug 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28812254
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. General Psychiatric Management for Suicidal Patients, With Remarks on Chronicity: Contending With the Angel of Death. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2017 Jun;205(6):419-426. PubMed PMID: 28557882
  • Yager J, Katzman JW. Meeting Disorders. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Mar 2. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28255855
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. Tools for Practical Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Collection (or Interventions Which Have, At Least, Worked for Us). J Psychiatr Pract. 2017 Jan;23(1):60-77. PubMed PMID: 28072647
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. Potential Applications of the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) to Clinical Psychiatric Practice: How RDoC Might Be Used in Assessment, Diagnostic Processes, Case Formulation, Treatment Planning, and Clinical Notes. J Clin Psychiatry. 2017 Apr;78(4):423-432. PubMed PMID: 28002661
  • Yager J , Mehler PS, Yager ED, Yager AR. Integrated Care for Binge Eating Disorder and Other Eating Disorders. Chapter 15, in Feinstein RE, Connelly JV, Feinstein M (eds). Psychiatry, Primary Care, and Medical Specialties: Pathways for Integrated Care. Oxford University Press, to be published 2017. DOI: 10.1093/med/9780190276201.003.0015
  • Lipman M, Calderone J, Yager J, Waugh M. Wellness- An Integrated Care Approach. Chapter 22 in Feinstein RE, Connelly JV, Feinstein M (eds). Psychiatry, Primary Care, and Medical Specialties: Pathways for Integrated Care. Oxford University Press, to be published 2017. DOI: 10.1093/med/9780190276201.001.0001
  • • Yager J, Bagga M, Hilty DM. Initiating a Positive Early Career Environment, Chapter 30, in Robert LW, Hilty DM. Handbook of Career Development in Academic Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, Arlington VA, American Psychiatric Press, 2017, pages 385-396.
  • Yager J. Reconstructing psychiatric diagnosis: Thinking within and outside of our diagnostic boxes (clinical landscape). Focus 2017; 15:10–11; doi: 10.1176/appi.focus.154S13
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE – Journal of Clinical Psychiatry blogpost. What can RDoCs offer clinicians? May 24, 2016. http://www.cmeinstitute.com/pages/lets-talk.aspx
  • Yager J, Griffiths J. Administrative Supervision. In DeGolia S ed. Clinical Supervision. American Psychiatric Press Incorporated. Accepted for publication, Oct 2017.
  • Yager J, Ganzini L, Nguyen DH, Rapp EK. Working with decisionally-capable patients who are determined to end their own Lives. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Accepted for publication, November 2017.
  • Thant T, Nguyen D, Yager J. Coping with Illness Group Approach for Psychiatric Patients with Medical Comorbidities: A Pilot Project. accepted as poster presentation Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, 2017 Annual Meeting, Nov. 8-11, 2017 Palm Springs, California
  • Wolfe J, Gordon K, Feinstein RE, Yager J, Heiman N. Origins, Evolution and Future of the Psychotherapy Scholars Track at the University of Colorado. Poster presentation at: Association for Academic Psychiatry, annual meeting Denver, Colorado, Sept 7, 2017.
  • Yager J, Ganzini L, Nguyen DH, Rapp EK. Dr Yager and Colleagues Reply. J Clin Psychiatry. 2018 Nov 27;79(6). PubMed PMID: 30549492
  • Thant T, Yager J. Updating Apathy: Using Research Domain Criteria to Inform Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis of Disorders of Motivation. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2018 Sep 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30256334
  • Dagan Y, Yager J. Severe bupropion XR abuse in a patient with long-standing bulimia nervosa and complex PTSD. Int J Eat Disord. 2018 Oct;51(10):1207-1209. PubMed PMID: 30230570
  • Yager J, Ritvo A, Wolfe JH, Feinstein RE. A Survival Guide to Low-Resource Peer-Reviewed Creative Scholarship for Aspiring Clinician-Educators. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Dec;42(6):841-846. PubMed PMID: 30109545
  • Yager J, Ganzini L, Nguyen DH, Rapp EK. Working With Decisionally Capable Patients Who Are Determined to End Their Own Lives. J Clin Psychiatry. 2018 May 22;79(4). PubMed PMID: 29873952
  • Reus VI, Fochtmann LJ, Bukstein O, Eyler AE, Hilty DM, Horvitz-Lennon M, Mahoney J, Pasic J, Weaver M, Wills CD, McIntyre J, Kidd J, Yager J, Hong SH. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2018 Jan 1;175(1):86-90. PubMed PMID: 29301420
  • Feinstein RE, Yager J. A Live Threat Violence Simulation Exercise for Psychiatric Outpatient Departments: A Valuable Aid to Training in Violence Prevention. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;42(5):598-604. PubMed PMID: 29086243
  • Yager J, Kay J. Much of What We Have Needed to Know as Academic Managers We Learned Leading Teenage Jazz Groups. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Dec;41(6):753-756. PubMed PMID: 29030740
  • Yager J, Kay J. Overextended Personality Disorder is Epidemic in Academic Medical Centers: Proposed Criteria and Preliminary Treatment Suggestions. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Aug;42(4):548-551. PubMed PMID: 28864956
  • Yager J, Taintor Z. Endemic Publishiasis: Redux and Growing. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Dec;41(6):833-838. PubMed PMID: 28812254
  • Yager J, Katzman JW. Meeting Disorders. Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Dec;41(6):807-818. PubMed PMID: 28255855
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. A Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy With Chronically Suicidal Patients: Wrestling With the Angel of Death. Psychiatry. 2017 Fall;80(3):207-220. PubMed PMID: 29087254
  • Yager J. Contending With Preplanned Death: Questions for Clinicians. J Psychiatr Pract. 2017 Sep;23(5):366-374. PubMed PMID: 28902070
  • Yager J, Feinstein RE. Potential Applications of the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) to Clinical Psychiatric Practice: How RDoC Might Be Used in Assessment, Diagnostic Processes, Case Formulation, Treatment Planning, and Clinical Notes. J Clin Psychiatry. 2017 Apr;78(4):423-432. PubMed PMID: 28002661
  • Yager J. (Book Review) Markowitz J, Interpersonal Psychotherapy for PTSD, Oxford U Press, American Journal of Psychiatry Am J Psychiatry 2018; 175:687–688; doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18030345
  • Yager J. -- Non-Trauma Focused Therapies for PTSD. (Clinical Landscape) FOCUS (16; supplement):7. doi: 10.1176/appi.focus.164512
  • Reus VI, Fochtmann LJ, Bukstein O, Eyler AE, Hilty DM, Horvitz-Lennon M, Mahoney J, Pasic J, Weaver M, Wills CD, McIntyre J, Kidd J, Yager J, Hong SH. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder. (monograph, 224 pages). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Washington DC. 2018. ISBN 978-0-89042-682-1.
  • Yager J, Griffiths JJ, Administrative Supervision. in DeGolia S (editor). Supervision in Psychiatry, Springer, 2018, Chapter 28, pp 267-274.
  • Nguyen D, Yager J. Medical Aid in Dying: Ethical and Practical Issues for Psychiatrists. Psychiatric Times, 35(12): 210-14, Dec 20, 2018, pp. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cme/medical-aid-dying-ethical-and-practical-issues-psychiatrists
  • Hilty D, Yager J, Osterhout C, Randhawa G, Scher L. Bulimia Nervosa. Medscape Drugs and Diseases, Updated December 23, 2018. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/286485-overview.
  • Yager J. Trends in Psychiatric Residency Education and Practice From 1944 to 2019: A Loving, Informal, and Highly Personal Review Served With Gently Roasted Sacred Cow. J Psychiatr Pract. 2020 Nov;26(6):493-502. PubMed PMID: 33275386
  • Yager J, Dagan Y. Response to Letter Regarding the Dagan and Yager Article. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020 Nov;208(11):912. PubMed PMID: 33105445
  • McIntyre JS, Yager J, Everett A, Galanter CA, Lyness JM, Nininger J, Reus VI, Vergare M. The DSM-5 Clinical and Public Health Committee (CPHC): operations, mechanics, controversies and recommendations. Psychol Med. 2020 Aug 25;:1-8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32840190
  • Yager J, Kay J. Clinical Curiosity in Psychiatric Residency Training: Implications for Education and Practice. Acad Psychiatry. 2019 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31667792
  • Yager J, Kay J. Autotraumatic Stress Disorders: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Variants When the Victim Bears Responsibility for the Trauma. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020 Dec;208(12):947-952. PubMed PMID: 32925695
  • Dagan Y, Yager J. Posttraumatic Growth in Complex PTSD. Psychiatry. 2019 Aug 12;:1-16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31404510
  • Calderone J, Lopez A, Schwenk S, Yager J, Shore JH. Telepsychiatry and integrated primary care: setting expectations and creating an effective process for success. Mhealth. 2020;6:29. PubMed PMID: 32632367
  • Dagan Y, Yager J. Cannabis and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Narrative Review With Considerations of Benefits and Harms. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020 Aug;208(8):619-627. PubMed PMID: 32433200
  • Hilty DM, Yager J, Seritan AL, Levine R, DeJong SM, Borus J. A Historical Review of Key Events and Components of Faculty and Professional Development in Psychiatry. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2019 Sep;42(3):357-373. PubMed PMID: 31358117
  • Hilty DM, Unützer J, Ko DG, Luo J, Worley LLM, Yager J. Approaches for Departments, Schools, and Health Systems to Better Implement Technologies Used for Clinical Care and Education. Acad Psychiatry. 2019 Jun 6. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31172384
  • Carney T, Yager J, Maguire S, Touyz SW. Involuntary Treatment and Quality of Life. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2019 Jun;42(2):299-307. PubMed PMID: 31046931
  • Dagan Y, Yager J. Addressing Loneliness in Complex PTSD. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2019 Jun;207(6):433-439. PubMed PMID: 31045977
  • Pejic V, Thant T, Hess RS, Cornell S, DeJesus J, Yager J, Savin D. Learning from Our Patients: Training Psychiatry Residents in Refugee Mental Health. Acad Psychiatry. 2019 Oct;43(5):471-479. PubMed PMID: 30927166
  • Yager J, Ganzini L, Nguyen DH, Rapp EK. Dr Yager and Colleagues Reply. J Clin Psychiatry. 2018 Nov 27;79(6). PubMed PMID: 30549492
  • Thant T, Yager J. Updating Apathy: Using Research Domain Criteria to Inform Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis of Disorders of Motivation. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2019 Sep;207(9):707-714. PubMed PMID: 30256334
  • Yager J. Managing Patients With Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa: When Is Enough, Enough?. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020 Apr;208(4):277-282. PubMed PMID: 32221180
  • Dagan Y, Yager J. Severe bupropion XR abuse in a patient with long-standing bulimia nervosa and complex PTSD. Int J Eat Disord. 2018 Oct;51(10):1207-1209. PubMed PMID: 30230570
  • Yager J, Ritvo A, Wolfe JH, Feinstein RE. A Survival Guide to Low-Resource Peer-Reviewed Creative Scholarship for Aspiring Clinician-Educators. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Dec;42(6):841-846. PubMed PMID: 30109545
  • Yager J. Irritability Disorders in Adults: Diagnostic Categories Missing in Plain Sight?. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020 Jun;208(6):459-465. PubMed PMID: 32187127
  • Yager J, Ganzini L, Nguyen DH, Rapp EK. Working With Decisionally Capable Patients Who Are Determined to End Their Own Lives. J Clin Psychiatry. 2018 May 22;79(4). PubMed PMID: 29873952
  • Reus VI, Fochtmann LJ, Bukstein O, Eyler AE, Hilty DM, Horvitz-Lennon M, Mahoney J, Pasic J, Weaver M, Wills CD, McIntyre J, Kidd J, Yager J, Hong SH. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2018 Jan 1;175(1):86-90. PubMed PMID: 29301420
  • Reus VI, Fochtmann LJ, Bukstein O, Eyler AE, Hilty DM, Horvitz-Lennon M, Mahoney J, Pasic J, Weaver M, Wills CD, McIntyre J, Kidd J, Yager J, Hong SH. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder. Focus (Am Psychiatr Publ). 2019 Apr;17(2):158-162. PubMed PMID: 32021585
  • Feinstein RE, Yager J. A Live Threat Violence Simulation Exercise for Psychiatric Outpatient Departments: A Valuable Aid to Training in Violence Prevention. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;42(5):598-604. PubMed PMID: 29086243
  • Yager J, Kay J. Clinical Curiosity in Psychiatric Residency Training: Implications for Education and Practice. Acad Psychiatry. 2020 Feb;44(1):90-94. PubMed PMID: 31667792
  • Yager J, Kay J. Overextended Personality Disorder is Epidemic in Academic Medical Centers: Proposed Criteria and Preliminary Treatment Suggestions. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Aug;42(4):548-551. PubMed PMID: 28864956
  • Donahue A, Yager J. How to Approach Mentorship as a Mentee. Chapter 23 in Roberts L, editor. The Academic Medicine Handbook: A guide to achievement and fulfillment for academic faculty. Second Edition. Springer. 2019, chpt 23, p 157-162. DOI.10.1007/978-1-4614-5693-3_20.; ISBN : 978-3-030-31956-4
  • Griffith J, Yager J. Administrative Supervision. In De Golia SG, Corcoran KM (eds). Supervision in Psychiatric Practice: Practical Approaches Across Venues and Providers. American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Washington DC, 2019, chapter 5. Pp 245-252. ISBN-13: 978-1615371648
  • Geppert C, Yager J, Kerwin J. Futility: History and Definitions. Chapter 11 In Westmoreland P (editor). Tipping the Scales: ethical and legal dilemmas in managing severe eating disorders, American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
  • Spaulding-Barclay M, Andersen A, Yager J. Treatment of Eating disorders: an historical perspective. In Westmoreland P (editor). Tipping the Scales: ethical and legal dilemmas in managing severe eating disorders, American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
  • Geppert C, Yager J, Kerwin J. Futility. Chapter 11 (p 189-207) in Westmoreland P (editor). Tipping the Scales: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Managing Severe Eating Disorders. Washington DC, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2021.
  • Spaulding-Barclay M, Andersen A, Yager J. Treatment of Eating Disorders: An Historical Perspective. Chapter 1 (p 1-22) in Westmoreland P (editor). Tipping the Scales: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Managing Severe Eating Disorders. Washington DC. American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2021.
  • Kay J, Yager J. How Reading Current Literature Stimulates Duh and Yawn Responses. Psychiatric Times, August 2, 2020. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/how-reading-current-literature-stimulates-duh-yawn-responses
  • Lac-yawn? A Jacques-ular Exchange: From our Readers Gerald P. Perman, MD , Joel Yager, MD , Jerald Kay, MD, Psychiatric Times, September 16, 2020. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/lac-yawn-a-jacques-ular-exchange-from-our-readers
  • España K, Posada J, Yager J. C-L Psychiatrists Help Distinguish Medical, Psychiatric Issues in Patients With Eating Disorders. Psychiatric News, December 4, 2020, p 16-18. DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2020.11a28. ISSN 0033-2704
  • Yager J. Targeting 3 Tiers of Psychiatric Problems in Patient-focused Psychiatric Practice: Diagnostic Signs, Symptoms, and Impairments; Specific Complex Subjective Complaints; and Contributing Meta-problems. J Psychiatr Pract. 2021 Nov 5;27(6):472-477. PubMed PMID: 34768271
  • Yager J. Managing Patients with Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa: When Is Enough, Enough? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001124
  • Yager J, Dubovsky SL, Roy-Byrne PP. Keeping Up with the Psychiatric Literature: A Survival Guide. Psychother Psychosom. 2021;90(6):359-364. PubMed PMID: 34252902
  • Yager J. Why Defend Harm Reduction for Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders? Who Wouldn't Want to Reduce Harms?. Am J Bioeth. 2021 Jul;21(7):57-59. PubMed PMID: 34152907
  • Yager J. Managing Patients with Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa: When Is Enough, Enough? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001124
  • Yager J. Addressing Suffering in Patients With Psychiatric Disorders. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2021 Sep 1;209(9):615-621. PubMed PMID: 33857957
  • Allison Wolfe MD, Jonathan Treem MD, Maurice Scott MD, Joel Yager MD A Novel Palliative Approach to Severe Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (Poster Presentation) University of Colorado School of Medicine. University of Colorado Palliative Care Research Days. October 17, 2019
  • Yager J. Infective Messages: Definitions, Processes, and Implications for Trauma, Identities, Internal Conflicts, Psychotherapy, and Research. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2021 Jul 1;209(7):474-480. PubMed PMID: 33782250
  • Blogpost- Journal of Clinical Psychiatry – Yager J, Ganzini L, Nguyen D, Rapp EK, How Should Clinicians Respond to Decisionally Capable Patients Who Wish to End Their Own Lives? Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Blogpost. January 9, 2018. https://www.cmeinstitute.com/pages/lets-talk.aspx?bid=187
  • Yager J. Sleepy Psychotherapists: How Clinicians' Biological Factors May Affect the Conduct of Psychotherapy. Am J Psychother. 2021 Mar 1;74(1):30-35. PubMed PMID: 33715396
  • Balasanova AA, Ritvo AD, Yager J. Addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine - Strange bedfellows or separated at birth?. Subst Abus. 2021;42(2):130-135. PubMed PMID: 33689603
  • Gurze Podcast – Yager J. Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa. Posted April 2019 https://www.edcatalogue.com/episode-132-dr-joel-yager-severe-enduring-anorexia-nervosa/
  • Yager J. A Clinician's Guide to Polycultural Psychiatry. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2021 Mar-Apr 01;29(2):159-168. PubMed PMID: 33560691
  • Hilty D, Yager J, Osterhout C, Randhawa G, Lorin Scher L. Bulimia Nervosa. Medscape Drugs & Diseases. Updated June 7, 2019. Available at: https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/286485-overview
  • Yager J, Kay J, Kelsay K. Clinicians' Cognitive and Affective Biases and the Practice of Psychotherapy. Am J Psychother. 2021 Aug 1;74(3):119-126. PubMed PMID: 33445958
  • Yager J. Can Trans-Syndromal Prototypes ("Types") Improve Depiction of Complex Psychiatric Cases?: An Alternative Way to Consider Concordant Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders and Their Contexts as Coherent Units for Research, Assessment, and Treatment Planning. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2021 Jan;209(1):1-8. PubMed PMID: 33141784
  • McIntyre JS, Yager J, Everett A, Galanter CA, Lyness JM, Nininger J, Reus VI, Vergare M. The DSM-5 Clinical and Public Health Committee (CPHC): operations, mechanics, controversies and recommendations. Psychol Med. 2021 Oct;51(14):2493-2500. PubMed PMID: 32840190
  • Yager J. Working with Patients with Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders Who Refuse Further Treatment. Eating Disorders Review. 2021 Sep;32(5).
  • YagerJ. Psychiatry in the Year 2500: Lessons Learned From History October 6, 2021 Psychiatric Times, Vol 38, Issue 10, https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/psychiatry-year-2500
  • Yager J. Lifelong Learning Has Never Been More Important—or Easier ... Psychiatric News (Am Psychiatric Association) https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2021.11.36 Oct 27, 2021 ·

Practice Locations

UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000

CU Medicine Psychiatry - Outpatient Clinic
1890 N Revere Ct
Anschutz Health Sciences Bldg, Suite 4020
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-1000

Hospital Affiliation
  • University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Psychiatry, Board Certification (2008)
Conditions & Treatments
  • Mental Health and Behavior - Eating Disorders
  • Mental Health and Behavior