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Critical Research Issues In Latino Mental Health
Special Topics In Latino Mental Health Research:
Including Children, Comorbid Medical Disorders and HIV

Santa Fe, New Mexico
November 20-22, 2006

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Joel Yager, M.D.

University of New Mexico

Career Planning in the Context of Life Planning 

Joel Yager, M.D., is Professor and Vice Chair for Education and Academic Affairs at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  He attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed an internship in internal medicine and residency in general psychiatry at its affiliated Bronx Municipal Medical Center.

Dr. Yager is founding editor of Eating Disorders Review and Eating Disorders Today, and 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, and the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.  He has published more than 250 articles and chapters and has edited eight books in the field of psychiatry. 

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 research and training grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr. Yager has maintained a visible and active role within a number of professional associations associated with education and with eating disorders. He has served as the Chair of the Council of Medical Education and Career Development and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education.  He is co-chair of the Recertification Examination Committee in Psychiatry for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  He is a past President of the American Association of Directors of Residency Training, and has 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. 

Since 1993 he has chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Work Group on Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Eating Disorders, and is a past President of the Academy of Eating Disorders.  He now serves as Chair of the Clinical and Scientific Council of the National Eating Disorders Association.

Over the years, Dr. Yager has received honors and awards from the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, National Institute of Mental Health, and Academy for Eating Disorders.