Robert Joseph, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Robert Joseph, MD, is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He led the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service at Cambridge Health Alliance for 29 years and also developed and led CHA’s Primary Care Mental Health Integration program. Dr Joseph has trained many medical students, adult psychiatry residents and PGV fellows in Psychosomatic Medicine as well as leading seminars on a variety of topics with for adult psychiatry, internal medicine, family medicine residents, psychologists and social work trainees. He also is a long standing committee participant at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and sits on its executive committee.

Publications

  • Published 4/13/2017

    Joseph R, Kester R, O'Brien C, Huang H. The Evolving Practice of Psychiatry in the Era of Integrated Care. Psychosomatics. 2017 Sep - Oct; 58(5):466-473. PMID: 28606419.

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  • Published 3/14/2017

    Zallman L, Joseph R, O'Brien C, Benedetto E, Grossman E, Arsenault L, Sayah A. Does behavioral health integration improve primary care providers' perceptions of health-care system functioning and their own knowledge? Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2017 May; 46:88-93. PMID: 28622823.

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  • Published 12/20/2016

    Huang H, Forstein M, Joseph R. Developing a Collaborative Care Training Program in a Psychiatry Residency. Psychosomatics. 2017 May - Jun; 58(3):245-249. PMID: 28233531.

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  • Published 11/1/2015

    Lipsitt DR, Joseph R, Meyer D, Notman MT. Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Barriers to Effective Treatment When Nothing Is the Matter. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2015 Nov-Dec; 23(6):438-48. PMID: 26378814.

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  • Published 9/18/2015

    MacLean JV, Faisal-Cury A, Chan YF, Menezes PR, Winters A, Joseph R, Huang H. The relationship between sleep disturbance in pregnancy and persistent common mental disorder in the perinatal period (sleep disturbance and persistent CMD). J Ment Health. 2015 Dec; 24(6):375-8. PMID: 26382909.

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Education

  • Boston University School of Medicine, MD
  • Tufts University, MS
  • University of Pittsburgh, BS

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