Ira R. Katz
University of Pennsylvania · Rehabilitation Medicine
Active 1950–2025
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About
Ira R. Katz is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. He is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and has a contact address at 3535 Market Street, Room 3001, Philadelphia, PA 19104. His educational background includes a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago (1965), an M.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University (1969), and an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1973). His research and professional contributions focus on psychiatric disorders, with specific interests in mood disorders, depression, and mental health in elderly populations. He has been involved in various research projects and publications related to geriatric psychiatry, medication effects, and mental health assessment in nursing home residents and dementia patients.
Research topics
- Biology
- Psychiatry
- Clinical psychology
- Medical emergency
- Medicine
- Psychology
Selected publications
JAMA Psychiatry · 2021-11-17 · 82 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingImportance: Suicide and suicide attempts are persistent and increasing public health problems. Observational studies and meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials have suggested that lithium may prevent suicide in patients with bipolar disorder or depression. Objective: To assess whether lithium augmentation of usual care reduces the rate of repeated episodes of suicide-related events (repeated suicide attempts, interrupted attempts, hospitalizations to prevent suicide, and deaths from suicide…
Scientific Reports · 2024-01-20 · 15 citations
articleOpen accessWe present an ensemble transfer learning method to predict suicide from Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic medical records (EMR). A diverse set of base models was trained to predict a binary outcome constructed from reported suicide, suicide attempt, and overdose diagnoses with varying choices of study design and prediction methodology. Each model used twenty cross-sectional and 190 longitudinal variables observed in eight time intervals covering 7.5 years prior to the time of prediction. Ensemble…
Post-traumatic stress disorder: rethinking diagnosis
The Lancet Psychiatry · 2023-07-24 · 10 citations
articleJournal of Substance Abuse Treatment · 2021-05-29 · 7 citations
articleSenior authorJournal of Psychopharmacology · 2023-04-11 · 6 citations
articleOpen accessBACKGROUND: The CSP590 randomized trial was designed to estimate the effect of lithium on suicidality. After a third of the intended number of participants were enrolled, the hazard ratio of suicidality was 1.10 (95% CI: 0.77, 1.55). Based on this, the trial was stopped for futility. However, only 17% of patients adhered to the specified protocol. AIMS: The objective was to estimate the per-protocol effect of lithium on suicidality, that is, the effect of adhering to the treatment strategies as…
Recent grants
NIH · $374k · 1990
NIH · $3.0M · 2009
NIH · $4.3M · 2003
Frequent coauthors
- 80 shared
David W. Oslin
University of Pennsylvania
- 75 shared
R. O. Anderson
United States Geological Survey
- 68 shared
Catherine Datto
- 58 shared
Joel E. Streim
- 55 shared
John F. McCarthy
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
- 50 shared
Geoffrey P. Kohn
Cabrini Hospital
- 50 shared
Jessica Campbell
Georgia Institute of Technology
- 50 shared
J Kennedy
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