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Overview

Philip S. Wang is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within psychology, medicine, and health professions, with a focus on psychiatry, mental health, clinical psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics including mental health treatment and access, health policy implementation science, mental health research topics, telemedicine and telehealth implementation, COVID-19 and mental health, schizophrenia research and treatment, and personality disorders and psychopathology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Philip S. Wang include:

  • DSM-5-TR: overview of what's new and what's changed, 2022, World Psychiatry
  • Remote Care Management for Older Adult Populations With Elevated Prevalence of Depression or Anxiety and Comorbid Chronic Medical Illness: A Systematic Review, 2022, Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  • Toward Population Health: Using a Learning Behavioral Health System and Measurement-Based Care to Improve Access, Care, Outcomes, and Disparities, 2022, Community Mental Health Journal
  • Promoting Population Behavioral Health in a Safety-Net Health System During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Psychiatric Services
  • Participants' Engagement With and Results From a Web-Based Integrative Population Mental Wellness Program (CHAMindWell) During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Program Evaluation Study, 2023, JMIR Mental Health

Philip S. Wang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Rajendra Aldis
  • Carl Fulwiler
  • Miriam C. Tepper
  • Margaret Lanca
  • Nicholas Carson

The primary publication venues for their work are:

  • World Psychiatry
  • Community Mental Health Journal
  • Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  • Psychiatric Services
  • JMIR Mental Health

The interdisciplinary nature of their research integrates mental health treatment frameworks with health policy and implementation science, particularly regarding improving access and outcomes at the population level. Attention is given to the role of telemedicine and digital health tools, especially in response to challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • The epidemiology of major depressive disorder: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R).

    Ronald C. Kessler;Patricia Berglund;Olga Demler;Robert Jin

  • Research domain criteria (RDoC): toward a new classification framework for research on mental disorders

    Thomas R Insel;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Marjorie A. Garvey;Robert K. Heinssen

  • Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Demyttenaere K;Bruffaerts R;Posada-Villa J;Gasquet I

  • Twelve-Month Use of Mental Health Services in the United States Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Philip S. Wang;Michael Lane;Mark Olfson;Harold A. Pincus

  • Prevalence and Treatment of Mental Disorders, 1990 to 2003.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Olga Demler;Richard G. Frank;Mark Olfson

  • The global burden of mental disorders : An update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Somnath Chatterji

  • Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveys

    Philip S Wang;Philip S Wang;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Matthias C Angermeyer

  • Failure and Delay in Initial Treatment Contact After First Onset of Mental Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Philip S. Wang;Patricia Berglund;Mark Olfson;Harold A. Pincus

  • Trends in Suicide Ideation, Plans, Gestures, and Attempts in the United States, 1990–1992 to 2001–2003

    RC Kessler;P Berglund;G Borges;M Nock

  • Risk of Death in Elderly Users of Conventional vs. Atypical Antipsychotic Medications

    Philip S. Wang;Sebastian Schneeweiss;Jerry Avorn;Michael A. Fischer

  • The prevalence and correlates of untreated serious mental illness.

    R C Kessler;P A Berglund;M L Bruce;J R Koch

  • Prevalence and Effects of Mood Disorders on Work Performance in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Workers

    Ronald C Kessler;Hagop S Akiskal;Minnie Ames;Howard Birnbaum

  • Barriers to mental health treatment: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Ramin Mojtabai;Mark Olfson;Nancy A. Sampson;Robert Jin

  • Self-management education programs in chronic disease: a systematic review and methodological critique of the literature.

    Asra Warsi;Philip S. Wang;Michael P. LaValley;Jerry Avorn

  • The descriptive epidemiology of commonly occurring mental disorders in the United States.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Philip S. Wang

  • Recent care of common mental disorders in the United States : prevalence and conformance with evidence-based recommendations.

    Philip S. Wang;Patricia Berglund;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Developing constructs for psychopathology research: research domain criteria.

    Charles A. Sanislow;Daniel S. Pine;Kevin J. Quinn;Michael J. Kozak

  • Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Philip S Wang;Matthias C Angermeyer;Guilherme Borges;Ronny Bruffaerts

  • Performance of Comorbidity Scores to Control for Confounding in Epidemiologic Studies using Claims Data

    Sebastian Schneeweiss;John D. Seeger;Malcolm Maclure;Philip S. Wang

  • Adherence to Therapy With Oral Antineoplastic Agents

    Ann H. Partridge;Jerry Avorn;Philip S. Wang;Eric P. Winer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Jerry Avorn
Jerry Avorn Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sebastian Schneeweiss
Sebastian Schneeweiss Brigham and Women's Hospital
Robert J. Glynn
Robert J. Glynn Harvard Medical School
Daniel H. Solomon
Daniel H. Solomon Brigham and Women's Hospital
Patricia A. Berglund
Patricia A. Berglund University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
M. Alan Brookhart
M. Alan Brookhart University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth B. Wells
Kenneth B. Wells University of California, Los Angeles
Guilherme Borges
Guilherme Borges Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría
Kathleen R. Merikangas
Kathleen R. Merikangas National Institutes of Health

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