About Joel Yager M.D.
Joel Yager M.D. has been Editor-in-Chief of Eating Disorders Review since its inception in 1989. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. He is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he served on faculty from 1973 through 1995, and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, where he served from 1995 through 2008. He attended the College of the City of New York (CCNY) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completing an internship in internal medicine and residency in general psychiatry at its affiliated Bronx Municipal Medical Center.
In addition to editorial service for EDR, Dr. Yager is an Associate Editor of Journal Watch for Psychiatry published by the New England Journal of Medicine. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Archives of General Psychiatry, and Academic Psychiatry, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Psychotherapy, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders: the Journal of Prevention and Treatment, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Current Medical Literature, Brain and Mind, and the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. He is also on the Senior Advisory Board of FOCUS, the American Psychiatric Association's CME Journal. For several editions he was a Consulting Editor for the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. He has published more than 250 articles and chapters and has edited eight books in the field of psychiatry including Teaching Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Future of Psychiatry as a Medical Specialty, Special Problems in the Management of Eating Disorders and the Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders. Dr. Yager's research interests have primarily focused on eating disorders; primary-care aspects of psychiatry; family therapy; consultation-liaison psychiatry; stress; professional development and education in psychiatry and medicine; the development of practice guidelines; and mental health services research. He is co-investigator on current grants from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Yager has been active within a number of professional associations associated with education and with eating disorders. Since 1993 he has chaired the American Psychiatric Association's Work Group on Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Eating Disorders. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, as Chair of the Executive and Steering Committees for Practice Guidelines and on the APA workgroup for Oversight of DSM V.
In the past Dr. Yager has served as Chair of the Council of Medical Education and Career Development of the American Psychiatric Association, co-chaired the Recertification Examination Committee in Psychiatry for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and served on the Committee on Research Training in Psychiatric Residency of the Institute of Medicine and on the National Institute of Mental Health's National Psychiatry Training Council. He has served on National Institute of Mental Health Special Emphasis Study Sections to review grant applications on eating disorders, as Chair of the Clinical and Scientific Council of the National Eating Disorders Association, and on a Carter Center Committee on Integrating Mental Health and Primary Care. He has also served as President of the Academy of Eating Disorders and as President of the American Association of Directors of Residency Training.
Over the years, Dr. Yager has been honored by and received awards from the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, National Institute of Mental Health, the Academy for Eating Disorders, the National Eating Disorders Association, the American Association of Technology in Psychiatry, and the Association for Academic Psychiatry.
