Joel E. Streim

About

Joel E. Streim, M.D., is a Professor and Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. He is a member of the Section on Geriatric Psychiatry and specializes in geriatric mental health. His educational background includes a B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College (1973) and an M.D. from the University of Rochester (1978). Dr. Streim has contributed to the field through research on mental health care in aging populations, including the quality of diabetes care among veterans with serious mental illness, pharmacological treatment of depression in nursing home residents, and psychiatric services in long-term care. He has been involved in developing online mentoring resources, lectures, and policy statements related to geriatric psychiatry, with support from the NIMH. His work emphasizes improving mental health services and policy for elderly populations.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Gerontology
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Nursing

Selected publications

• GERI-BD: A Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial of Lithium and Divalproex in the Treatment of Mania in Older Patients With Bipolar Disorder

  American Journal of Psychiatry · 2017-08-04 · 194 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Clinicians treating older patients with bipolar disorder with mood stabilizers need evidence from age-specific randomized controlled trials. The authors describe findings from a first such study of late-life mania. METHOD: The authors compared the tolerability and efficacy of lithium carbonate and divalproex in 224 inpatients and outpatients age 60 or older with bipolar I disorder who presented with a manic, hypomanic, or mixed episode. Participants were randomly assigned, under doubl…

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• Evaluation of interprofessional health care team communication simulation in geriatric palliative care

  Gerontology & Geriatrics Education · 2018-08-30 · 55 citations

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  An interprofessional education (IPE) simulation-based geriatric palliative care training was developed to educate health professions students in team communication. In health care, interprofessional communication is critical to team collaboration and patient and family caregiver outcomes. Studies suggest that acquiring skills to work on health care teams and communicate with team members should occur during the early stage of professional education. The Interprofessional Education Collaborative…

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• Perceived barriers to healthcare and receipt of recommended medical care among elderly Medicare beneficiaries

  Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics · 2017-05-18 · 35 citations

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• Preventable hospitalizations, barriers to care, and disability

  Medicine · 2018-05-01 · 26 citations

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  The AHRQ's Prevention Quality Indicators assume inpatient hospitalizations for certain conditions, referred as ambulatory-care sensitive (ACS) conditions, are potentially preventable and may indicate reduced access to and a lower quality of ambulatory care. Using a cohort drawn from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) linked to Medicare claims, we examined the extent to which barriers to healthcare are associated with ACS hospitalizations and related costs, and whether these associati…

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• Presence of Vision Impairment and Risk of Hospitalization among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries

  Ophthalmic Epidemiology · 2017-03-27 · 20 citations

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  PURPOSE: To examine the association between vision impairment and all-cause hospitalization among elderly Medicare beneficiaries. METHODS: A population-based study (N = 22,681) of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older who participated in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey for the years 2001-2007. Beneficiaries were classified into self-reported presence of vision impairment versus no vision impairment. Inpatient hospitalizations were identified using Medicare cla…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01MH051247

  NIH · $3.0M · 2009

• NIH Grant P30MH052129

  NIH · $14.7M · 2002

• NIH Grant K07MH001300

  NIH · $807k · 2000

Frequent coauthors

• David W. Oslin

  University of Pennsylvania

  215 shared

• Debra Saliba

  RAND Corporation

  146 shared

• Dawei Xie

  123 shared

• Suzanne DiFilippo

  112 shared

• Margaret G. Stineman

  100 shared

• Shahrzad Mavandadi

  95 shared

• Shinya Ishii

  68 shared

• Wenchun Qu

  Mayo Clinic in Florida

  64 shared

Labs

• Joel E. Streim LabPI

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