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Ramin Mojtabai
Associate Professor
Academic Degrees
MD, PHD, MPH
Departmental Affiliation
Mental Health
Joint appointment: Department of Psychiatry
Departmental Address
Hampton House, Rm 797
624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410) 614-9495
Fax: (410) 614-7469
Research and Professional Experience

Mental health services research including trends and correlates of use of services, barriers to access to services, process and outcome of treatments in usual care settings and pharmacoepidemiology of psychiatric drugs.

Keywords

mental heath services; mental health treatment seeking

Honors and Awards

Klerman Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD)

Laughlin Award, American College of Psychiatrists

Selected Publications

Mojtabai, R. (2009). Unmet need for treatment of major depression in the United States. Psychiatric Services; 60:297-305

Mojtabai, R., Fochtmann, L., Chang, S.W., Kotov, R., Craig, T.J., Bromet, E. (2009). Unmet need for mental health care in schizophrenia: An overview of literature and new data from a first-admission study. Schizophrenia Bulletin; 35:679-695

Olfson, M., Mojtabai, R., Sampson, N.A., Hwang, I., Druss, B., Wang, P.S., Wells, K.B., Pincus, H.A., Kessler, R.C. (2009). Dropout from outpatient mental health care in the United States. Psychiatric Services; 60:898-907

Mojtabai, R., Olfson, M. (2008) National trends in psychotherapy by office-based psychiatrists, Archives of General Psychiatry; 65:962-970

Mojtabai, R., Olfson, M. (2008) National patterns in antidepressant treatment by psychiatrists and general medical providers, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry; 69:1064-1074

Mojtabai, R. (2008) Social comparison of distress and mental health help seeking in the community. Social Science and Medicine; 67:1944-1950

Mojtabai, R. (2008) Increase in antidepressant medication use in the US adult population between 1990 and 2003. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 77: 83-92

Mojtabai, R., Olfson, M. (2008) Parental detection of self-harm behavior. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 38: 60-73.

Mojtabai, R. (2007) Americans’ attitudes towards mental health treatment seeking: 1990-2003. Psychiatric Services 58:642-651

Mojtabai, R., Singh, P. (2007) Implications of co-occurring alcohol abuse for role impairment, health problems, treatment seeking, and early course of alcohol dependence. American Journal on Addictions 16:300-309

Herrell, R., Henter, I. D., Mojtabai, R., Bartko, J. J., Venable, D., Susser, E., Merikangas, K. R., Wyatt, R. J. (2006) First psychiatric hospitalization in the U.S. military: the National Collaborative Study of Early Psychosis and Suicide (NCSEPS). Psychological Medicine 36:1405-1415

Mojtabai, R. (2006) Serious emotional and behavioral problems and mental health contacts in American and British children and adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 45:1215-1223

Mojtabai, R., Olfson, M. (2006) Treatment seeking for depression in Canada and the United States. Psychiatric Services 57: 631-639

Mojtabai, R. (2006) Psychotic-like experiences and interpersonal violence in the general population. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41:183-190

Mojtabai, R., Herman, D., Susser, E. S., Sohler, N., Craig, T. J., Lavelle, J., Bromet, E. J. (2005) Service use and outcomes of first-admission patients with psychotic disorders in the Suffolk County Mental Health Project. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162:1291-1298

Mojtabai, R. (2005) Trends in help-seeking from mental health professionals and cost barriers to mental health care among adults with significant psychological distress in the US: 1997-2002. American Journal of Public Health, 95:2009-2014

Mojtabai, R. (2005) Compliance with mental health and other specialty care referrals among Medicare/Medicaid dual enrollees. Community Mental Health Journal, 41:339-344

Mojtabai, R. (2005) Use of specialty substance abuse and mental health services in adults with substance use disorders in the community. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 78:345-354

Mojtabai, R. (2005) Parental psychopathology and childhood atopic disorders in the community. Psychosomatic Medicine 67:448-453

Mojtabai, R. (2005) Perceived reasons for loss of housing and continued homelessness among homeless mentally ill individuals. Psychiatric Services 56:172-178

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