Core Faculty > Joseph Flaherty
Dr. Joseph Flaherty received his medical training at University of Illinois at Chicago where he also did his internship in pediatrics and a residency in psychiatry. He had additional research training in social psychiatry at UIC and in sociology at London University. He is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry as well as Chief of the psychiatry service. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Flaherty has examined the effects of gender on the development of symptoms and illness as well as health-seeking behavior and treatments in alcoholism and depression. He also has been involved in psychometric testing of new instruments and their cross-cultural adaptation through research conducted in Peru, Panama, Israel and the USSR. For more than 20 years, his research has been continuously funded by branches of NIH, including NIAAA and NIMH, as well as the MacArthur Foundation, the Reynolds Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and other governmental and private agencies. He is currently involved in a large-sample longitudinal study on the effects of occupational stressors on heavy drinking. Working with the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services, he is also developing models of health care delivery for high-risk children in state care with the aim of early intervention and prevention. He is a consultant on three NIMH grants testing intervention models to decrease preteen use of illicit substances and early sexual encounters to prevent HIV. He has been the PI on a large NIH Research Infrastructure Support grant to promote mental health service research on campus. Dr. Flaherty has published more than 200 professional papers, books and chapters. He is an editorial member or reviewer for a variety of professional journals and consults with a number of agencies including the World Health Organization and the Falk Institute in Jerusalem.
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