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Joseph M. Cerimele, MD

Research Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Master of Public Health: University of Washington School of Public Health (Health Services )
  • Adult Psychiatry Residency: Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Psychiatry)
  • Doctor of Medicine: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  • Bachelor of Arts: Case Western Reserve University (Biochemistry and Psychology)
Board Certifications & Licenses

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Psychiatry) (Certification Date: 2012-09-13)

Specialties

Psychiatry

Contact Information

Clinical Interests

Bipolar Disorder

Behavioral Disorders

Peer Reviewed Publications

Cerimele, Joseph M; Franta, Gabriel; Blanchard, Brittany E; Leasure, William; Fortney, John C 2024. Bipolar Disorder Symptom Monitoring Measures: A Mixed-Methods Study of Patient Preferences. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 65 2, 148-156

Fortney, John C; Kaysen, Debra L; Engel, Charles C; Cerimele, Joseph M; Nolan, John P; Chase, Erin; Blanchard, Brittany E; Hauge, Stephanie; Bechtel, Jared; Moore, Danna L; Taylor, Ashley; Acierno, Ron; Nagel, Nancy; Sripada, Rebecca K; Painter, Jacob T; DeBeer, Bryann B; Bluett, Ellen; Teo, Alan R; Morland, Leslie A; Heagerty, Patrick J 2024. Sequenced treatment effectiveness for posttraumatic stress (STEPS) trial: A protocol for a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial with baseline results. Contemporary clinical trials, 144 , 107606

Lee, Hochang Benjamin; Cerimele, Joseph M; Pao, Maryland; Oldham, Mark A 2024. Corrigendum to "The Dual Roles of the JACLP: Leading the Field of C-L Psychiatry and Serving the Members of Our Academy" [Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry 64 (2023) 1-2]. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 65 1, 122

Baller, Erica B; Cerimele, Joseph M 2023. Early Career Physician Research and Scholarship-New Opportunities at JACLP. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 64 3, 197-198

Cerimele, Joseph M; Blanchard, Brittany E; Johnson, Morgan; Russo, Joan; Bauer, Amy M; Veith, Richard C; Unützer, Jürgen; Fortney, John C 2023. Effectiveness of Collaborative Care and Colocated Specialty Care for Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 64 4, 349-356

Cerimele, Joseph M; Fortney, John C 2023. Bipolar disorder assessment and monitoring measures in clinical care: Updates from a large randomized controlled trial in primary care. Bipolar disorders, 25 8, 708-710

Lee, Hochang Benjamin; Cerimele, Joseph M; Pao, Maryland; Oldham, Mark A 2023. The Dual Roles of the JACLP: Leading the Field of C-L Psychiatry and Serving the Members of Our Academy. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 64 1, 1-2

Oldham, Mark A; Kontos, Nicholas; Baller, Erica; Cerimele, Joseph M 2023. JACLP Guide for Manuscript Peer Review: How to Perform a Peer Review and How to Be Responsive to Reviewer Comments. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 64 5, 468-472

Cerimele, Joseph M; Bauer, Amy M; Ratzliff, Anna 2022. Guiding Academic Clinician Educators at Research-Intensive Institutions: a Framework for Chairs, Chiefs, and Mentors. Journal of general internal medicine, 37 10, 2577

Cerimele, Joseph M; Johnson, Morgan; Blanchard, Brittany E; Russo, Joan; Unützer, Jürgen; Fortney, John C 2022. Bipolar disorder in primary care: Medication treatment by co-located psychiatrists versus primary care clinicians supported by psychiatrists. General hospital psychiatry, 78 , 108-110

Cerimele, Joseph M; Russo, Joan; Bauer, Amy M; Hawrilenko, Matt; Pyne, Jeffrey M; Dalack, Gregory W; Kroenke, Kurt; Unützer, Jürgen; Fortney, John C 2022. The Patient Mania Questionnaire (PMQ-9): a Brief Scale for Assessing and Monitoring Manic Symptoms. Journal of general internal medicine, 37 7, 1680-1687

Whitfield, Jessica; LePoire, Erin; Stanczyk, Brenna; Ratzliff, Anna; Cerimele, Joseph M 2022. Remote Collaborative Care With Off-Site Behavioral Health Care Managers: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 63 1, 71-85

Bauer, Amy M; Cerimele, Joseph M; Ratzliff, Anna 2021. Development of research methods curriculum for an integrated care fellowship. General hospital psychiatry, 71 , 55-61

Cerimele, Joseph M 2021. Collaborative Care, Outpatient Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and JACLP. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 62 3, 267-269

Cerimele, Joseph M; Blanchard, Brittany E; Bechtel, Jared M; Fortney, John C 2021. Clinician preferences for using bipolar disorder symptom severity and quality of life scales for measurement-based care. General hospital psychiatry, 73 , 123-125

Cerimele, Joseph M; Kimmel, Ryan J 2021. Hospital Consultation-Liaison Telepsychiatry-Two Trends and Two New Reports. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 62 6, 565-567

Fortney, John C; Bauer, Amy M; Cerimele, Joseph M; Pyne, Jeffrey M; Pfeiffer, Paul; Heagerty, Patrick J; Hawrilenko, Matt; Zielinski, Melissa J; Kaysen, Debra; Bowen, Deborah J; Moore, Danna L; Ferro, Lori; Metzger, Karla; Shushan, Stephanie; Hafer, Erin; Nolan, John Paul; Dalack, Gregory W; Unützer, Jürgen 2021. Comparison of Teleintegrated Care and Telereferral Care for Treating Complex Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial. JAMA psychiatry, 78 11, 1189-1199

Howland, Molly; Tennant, McKenna; Bowen, Deborah J; Bauer, Amy M; Fortney, John C; Pyne, Jeffrey M; Shore, Jay; Cerimele, Joseph M 2021. Psychiatrist and Psychologist Experiences with Telehealth and Remote Collaborative Care in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study. The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, 37 4, 780-787

Wendt, Amelia C; Stamper, Gabriella; Howland, Molly; Cerimele, Joseph M; Bhat, Amritha 2021. Indirect psychiatric consultation for perinatal bipolar disorder: A scoping review. General hospital psychiatry, 68 , 19-24

Cerimele, Joseph M; LePoire, Erin; Fortney, John C; Hawrilenko, Matt; Unützer, Jürgen; Bauer, Amy M 2020. Bipolar disorder and PTSD screening and telepsychiatry diagnoses in primary care. General hospital psychiatry, 65 , 28-32

Cerimele, Joseph M; Lostutter, Ty W 2020. Bipolar disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in rural primary care: Extending specialty care reach. Bipolar disorders, 22 1, 97-100

Fortney, John C; Heagerty, Patrick J; Bauer, Amy M; Cerimele, Joseph M; Kaysen, Debra; Pfeiffer, Paul N; Zielinski, Melissa J; Pyne, Jeffrey M; Bowen, Deb; Russo, Joan; Ferro, Lori; Moore, Danna; Nolan, J P; Fee, Florence C; Heral, Tammy; Freyholtz-London, Jode; McDonald, Bernadette; Mullins, Jeremey; Hafer, Erin; Solberg, Leif; Unützer, Jürgen 2020. Study to promote innovation in rural integrated telepsychiatry (SPIRIT): Rationale and design of a randomized comparative effectiveness trial of managing complex psychiatric disorders in rural primary care clinics. Contemporary clinical trials, 90 , 105873

Toor, Ramanpreet; Cerimele, Joseph M; Farnum, Melissa; Ratzliff, Anna 2020. Longitudinal Faculty Development in Curriculum Design: Our Experience in the Integrated Care Training Program. Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 44 6, 761-765

Cerimele, Joseph M; Fortney, John C; Pyne, Jeffrey M; Curran, Geoffrey M 2019. Bipolar disorder in primary care: a qualitative study of clinician and patient experiences with diagnosis and treatment. Family practice, 36 1, 32-37

Cerimele, Joseph M; Goldberg, Simon B; Miller, Christopher J; Gabrielson, Stephen W; Fortney, John C 2019. Systematic Review of Symptom Assessment Measures for Use in Measurement-Based Care of Bipolar Disorders. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 70 5, 396-408

Kern, John S; Cerimele, Joseph M 2019. Collaborative Care for Patients With a Bipolar Disorder: A Primary Care FQHC-CMHC Partnership. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 70 4, 353

Bhat, Amritha; Cerimele, Joseph M; Byatt, Nancy 2018. Pregnant and Postpartum Women With Bipolar Disorder: Taking the Care to Where They Are. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 69 12, 1207-1209

Carlo, Andrew D; Unützer, Jürgen; Ratzliff, Anna D H; Cerimele, Joseph M 2018. Financing for Collaborative Care - A Narrative Review. Current treatment options in psychiatry, 5 3, 334-344

Fortney, John C; Pyne, Jeffrey M; Ward-Jones, Susan; Bennett, Ian M; Diehl, Joan; Farris, Kellee; Cerimele, Joseph M; Curran, Geoffrey M 2018. Implementation of evidence-based practices for complex mood disorders in primary care safety net clinics. Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare, 36 3, 267-280

Shenai, Neeta; Shulman, Joshua; Gopalan, Priya; Cheng, Edith; Cerimele, Joseph M 2018. Fetal Outcomes in Intentional Over-the-Counter Medication Overdoses in Pregnancy. Psychosomatics, 59 4, 400-404

Sowa, Nathaniel A; Jeng, Philip; Bauer, Amy M; Cerimele, Joseph M; Unützer, Jürgen; Bao, Yuhua; Chwastiak, Lydia 2018. Psychiatric Case Review and Treatment Intensification in Collaborative Care Management for Depression in Primary Care. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 69 5, 549-554

Cerimele, Joseph M; Bauer, Amy M; Fortney, John C; Bauer, Mark S 2017. Patients With Co-Occurring Bipolar Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Rapid Review of the Literature. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 78 5, e506-e514

Cerimele, Joseph M; Fortney, John C; Unützer, Jürgen 2017. Bipolar Disorder and Population Health. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 68 2, 192-194

Cerimele, Joseph M; Kern, John S 2017. Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care: Integrated Care Experiences. Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing), 15 3, 244-248

Huang, Hsiang; Tabb, Karen M; Cerimele, Joseph M; Ahmed, Nahida; Bhat, Amritha; Kester, Rachel 2017. Collaborative Care for Women With Depression: A Systematic Review. Psychosomatics, 58 1, 11-18

Lebin, Lindsay G; Cerimele, Joseph M 2017. Recurrent Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Catatonia in an Older Adult. The American journal of psychiatry, 174 10, 1001-1002

Davydow, Dimitry S; Ribe, Anette R; Pedersen, Henrik S; Fenger-Grøn, Morten; Cerimele, Joseph M; Vedsted, Peter; Vestergaard, Mogens 2016. Serious Mental Illness and Risk for Hospitalizations and Rehospitalizations for Ambulatory Care-sensitive Conditions in Denmark: A Nationwide Population-based Cohort Study. Medical care, 54 1, 90-7

Pellegrino, Laurel D; Cerimele, Joseph M; Dubovsky, Amelia N 2016. Service Dogs in the Hospital: Helpful or Harmful? A Case Report and Clinical Recommendations. Psychosomatics, 57 3, 301-4

Cerimele, Joseph M; Ratzliff, Anna; Sexton, Jennifer M 2015. Collaborative care for a patient with bipolar disorder in primary care: a case example. General hospital psychiatry, 37 2, 144-6

Ribe, Anette Riisgaard; Laursen, Thomas Munk; Charles, Morten; Katon, Wayne; Fenger-Grøn, Morten; Davydow, Dimitry; Chwastiak, Lydia; Cerimele, Joseph M; Vestergaard, Mogens 2015. Long-term Risk of Dementia in Persons With Schizophrenia: A Danish Population-Based Cohort Study. JAMA psychiatry, 72 11, 1095-101

Cerimele, Joseph M; Chan, Ya-Fen; Chwastiak, Lydia A; Avery, Marc; Katon, Wayne; Unützer, Jürgen 2014. Bipolar disorder in primary care: clinical characteristics of 740 primary care patients with bipolar disorder. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 65 8, 1041-6

Cerimele, Joseph M; Chan, Ya-Fen; Chwastiak, Lydia A; Unützer, Jürgen 2014. Pain in primary care patients with bipolar disorder. General hospital psychiatry, 36 2, 228

Cerimele, Joseph M; Chwastiak, Lydia A; Dodson, Sherry; Katon, Wayne J 2014. The prevalence of bipolar disorder in general primary care samples: a systematic review. General hospital psychiatry, 36 1, 19-25

Cerimele, Joseph M; Halperin, Abigail C; Saxon, Andrew J 2014. Tobacco use treatment in primary care patients with psychiatric illness. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, 27 3, 399-410

Cerimele, Joseph M; Halperin, Abigail C; Spigner, Clarence; Ratzliff, Anna; Katon, Wayne J 2014. Collaborative care psychiatrists' views on treating bipolar disorder in primary care: a qualitative study. General hospital psychiatry, 36 6, 575-80

Cerimele, Joseph M; Chwastiak, Lydia A; Chan, Ya-Fen; Harrison, David A; Unützer, Jürgen 2013. The presentation, recognition and management of bipolar depression in primary care. Journal of general internal medicine, 28 12, 1648-56

Cerimele, Joseph M; Chwastiak, Lydia A; Dodson, Sherry; Katon, Wayne J 2013. The prevalence of bipolar disorder in primary care patients with depression or other psychiatric complaints: a systematic review. Psychosomatics, 54 6, 515-24

Cerimele, Joseph M; Halperin, Abigail C 2013. Smoking-related mortality in the United States. The New England journal of medicine, 368 18, 1752-3

Cerimele, Joseph M; Katon, Wayne J 2013. Associations between health risk behaviors and symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a systematic review. General hospital psychiatry, 35 1, 16-22

Cerimele, Joseph M; Popeo, Dennis M; Rieder, Ronald O 2013. A resident rotation in collaborative care: learning to deliver primary care-based psychiatric services. Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 37 1, 63-4

Cerimele, Joseph M; Vanderlip, Erik R; Croicu, Carmen A; Melville, Jennifer L; Russo, Joan; Reed, Susan D; Katon, Wayne 2013. Presenting symptoms of women with depression in an obstetrics and gynecology setting. Obstetrics and gynecology, 122 2 Pt 1, 313-318

Vanderlip, Erik R; Cerimele, Joseph M; Monroe-Devita, Maria 2013. A comparison of assertive community treatment fidelity measures and patient-centered medical home standards. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 64 11, 1127-33

Cerimele, Joseph M; Durango, Alejandra 2012. Does varenicline worsen psychiatric symptoms in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder? A review of published studies. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 73 8, e1039-47

Cerimele, Joseph M; Katon, Wayne J; Sharma, Vansh; Sederer, Lloyd I 2012. Delivering psychiatric services in primary-care setting. The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York, 79 4, 481-9

Cerimele, Joseph M; Peccoralo, Lauren A 2012. Defining patient complexity. Annals of internal medicine, 156 8, 606-7; author reply

LaLonde, Mary M; Cerimele, Joseph M 2012. Encouraging collaboration. Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 36 2, 151

Cerimele, Joseph M 2011. Does post-call syndrome exist, and is it related to physician burnout? Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 35 4, 272

Cerimele, Joseph M 2011. Integrated medical care for patients with bipolar disorder: who will be the principal physician? The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 72 5, 722-3

Cerimele, Joseph M; Fayad, Sarah M 2011. Resident physicians and peer review. Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 35 5, 343-4

Cerimele, Joseph M; Markella, Mariana; Simon, Asher B 2011. Paging patterns of psychiatry night-float residents in an academic hospital. Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 35 3, 209-12

Cerimele, Joseph M; Robinson, Lee A 2011. Sertraline-associated hyponatremia and subsequent tolerability of bupropion in an elderly woman. The primary care companion for CNS disorders, 13 5,

Cerimele, Joseph M 2010. Specialist practices as medical homes. The New England journal of medicine, 363 10, 991-2; author reply

Cerimele, Joseph M 2010. Somatic delusion or recurrent pulmonary embolism? A case report. Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry, 12 1, PCC.09100787

Cerimele, Joseph M; Stern, Adam P; Jutras-Aswad, Didier 2010. Psychosis following excessive ingestion of energy drinks in a patient with schizophrenia. The American journal of psychiatry, 167 3, 353

Cerimele, Joseph M; Strain, James J 2010. Integrating primary care services into psychiatric care settings: a review of the literature. Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry, 12 6,

Markella, Mariana; Cerimele, Joseph M 2010. Psychiatric presentation of a child with Crohn's disease. Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry, 12 5,

Cerimele, Joseph 2009. Monitoring ventricular repolarization with QTc interval during antipsychotic therapy in patients with ventricular conduction abnormalities. Psychosomatics, 50 5, 549-50

Cerimele, Joseph M 2008. Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state in a patient taking risperidone. Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry, 10 3, 255