Charlestown Navy Yard Programs

Assistant Vice Chair: Deborah Blacker, M.D., Sc.D.

 

Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program

                Director: Randy Buckner, Ph.D.
                Phone: 617-726-5464; Email: randy_buckner@harvard.edu

                Associate Directors: Darin Dougherty, M.D. and Randy Gollub, M.D., Ph.D.
               
Phone: 617-724-6143; Email: ddougherty@partners.org
                Phone: 617-724-9602; Email: rgollub@partners.org

Center for Morphometric Analysis
                Co-Director: Nikos Makris, M.D., Ph.D
                Phone: 617-726-5733
                Email: nikos@cma.mgh.harvard.edu

Clinical Neuroscience and Developmental Neuropsychology, Laboratory of
                Director: Larry J. Seidman, Ph.D.
                Phone: 617-726-0264
                Email: larry_seidman@hms.harvard.edu

Developmental Psychopathology, Laboratory for
               Director: Carl Schwartz, M.D. 
               Phone: 617-726-8965;
               Email: carl_schwartz@hms.harvard.edu

Gender Differences, Laboratory of
               Director: Jill Goldstein, Ph.D..
               Phone: 617-726-0264
               Email: JMGoldstein@Partners.org 

Neuroimaging and Genetics, Laboratory of
                Director: Hans Breiter, M.D.
                Phone: 617-726-5715
                Email: hbreiter@partners.org

Neuroimaging Applications to Pain, Acupuncture and Placebo Research, Laboratory for
               Director: Randy L. Gollub, M.D. Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-724-9602.
               Email: rgollub@partners.org

Neuroimaging of Mood and Mood Disorders, Laboratory for
               Director: Darin D. Dougherty, M.D.
               Phone: 617-724-6143
               Email: ddougherty@partners.org

Neuroimaging of Mood and Movement Disorders, Laboratory for
               Director: Anne Blood, Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-643-2297; Email: ablood@partners.org

Neuroscientific Investigation of Meditation, Laboratory for
               Director: Sara Lazar, Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-724-7108
               Email: lazar@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Multimodal Neuroimaging of Executive Function in Psychopathology, Laboratory for
               Director: Dara S. Manoach, Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-724-6148; Email: dara@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Schizophrenia: Spatiotemporal Imaging, Laboratory for
               Director: Gina R. Kuperberg, M.D., Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-726-3432; Email: kuperber@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

 

Gerontology Research Unit

Alzheimer’s Disease/ Memory Loss/Genetics/Neuroimaging/Epidemiology
                Director: Deborah Blacker, M.D., Sc.D.
                Phone: 617-726-5571
                Email: blacker@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Neural Systems Group
                Director: Gary Strangman, Ph.D.
                Phone: 617-724-0662
                Email: strang@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Neurochemistry Laboratory
                Director: Jack Rogers, M.D.
                Phone: 617-726-8838
                Email: rogersj@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Animal Models and Behavioral Neuroscience
                Director: Mohammed Milad, Ph.D.
                Phone: 617-724-8533; Email: Mmilad@partners.org

Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program
               Director: Darin Dougherty, M.D.
               Phone: 617-724-6143; Email: ddougherty@partners.org

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Psychophysiology Laboratory
               Director: Roger K. Pitman, M.D.
               Phone: 617-726-5333; Email: pitman@psych.mgh.harvard.edu

 

SIMCHES Neuroscience Programs

Assistant Vice Chair: Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.


Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (PNGU)     
               Director: David Pauls, Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-726-0793; Email: dpauls@partners.org

               Associate Director: Pamela Sklar, M.D., Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-726-0475; Email: sklar@chgr.mgh.harvard.edu

Psychiatric Genetics Program in Mood and Anxiety Disorders
               Director: Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.
               Phone: 617-724-0835; Email: jsmoller@hms.harvard.edu

 

Clinical Adult Psychiatry Research Programs

Vice Chair: Maurizio Fava, M.D.

Addiction Research Program
               Director: Eden Evins, M.D., M.P.H.
               Phone: 617-643-4679; Email: a_eden_evins@hms.harvard.edu
               Associate Director: John Kelly, Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-643-1980; Email: jkelly11@partners.org

Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders
               Director: Mark H. Pollack, M.D.
               Phone: 617-724-0844; Email: mpollack@partners.org
               Associate Director: Naomi Simon, MD MSc
               Phone: 617-726-7913; Email: nsimon@partners.org

Complicated Grief Program
               Director: Naomi M Simon, MD MSc
               Phone: 617-726-7913; Email: nsimon@partners.org

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program
               Director: Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
               Email: wilhem@psych.mgh.harvard.edu
               Associate Director: Susan Sprich, PhD.
               Phone: 617-726-5991; Email: ssprich@partners.org

Behavioral Medicine Service
               Director: Steven Safren, Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-724-0817; Email: ssafren@partners.org

Bipolar Disorder - Clinic and Research Program
               Co-Director: Gary Sachs, MD
               Phone: 617-726-6188; Email: sachsg@aol.com
               Co-Director: Andrew A. Nierenberg M.D.
               Phone: 617-726-4820; Email: anierenberg@partners.org
               Medical Director: Roy Perlis, M.D.
               Phone: 617-726-7426; Email: rperlis@partners.org

Depression Clinical and Research Program
               Co-Director: Maurizio Fava, M.D.
               Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: mfava@partners.org
               Associate Director: Jonathan E. Alpert M.D., Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-726-5948; Email: jalpert@partners.org
               Associate Director: Andrew Nierenberg M.D.
               Phone: 617-726-5855; Email: anierenberg@partners.org
               Director of Research: David Mischoulon M.D., Ph.D,
               Phone: 617-724-5198; Email: dmischoulon@partners.org

Eating Disorders
               Director: Anne Becker, M.D., Ph.D.
               Phone: 617-724-2934; Email: abecker@partners.org

First Episode and Early Psychosis Program/Schizophrenia
               Director: Donald C. Goff, M.D.
               Phone: 617-912-7899; Email: dgoff1@partners.org

 

Forensic Psychiatry Services/Law and Psychiatry

Director: Ronald Schouten, M.D., J.D.

Phone: 617-726-5195; Email: rschouten@partners.org

 

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – Clinic

Director: Sabine Wilhelm, M.D.

Email: swilhelm@partners.org

 

Body Dysmorphic Disorder Clinic & Research Unit

Director: Sabine Wilhelm, M.D.

Email: swilhelm@partners.org
               

 

Tic Disorders Clinic & Research Unit

Director: Sabine Wilhelm, M.D.

Email: swilhelm@partners.org

 

Trichotillomania – Clinic and Research Unit

Co-Director: Darin D. Dougherty, M.D., M.Sc.
Phone: 617-724-6143; Email: ddougherty@partners.org

Co-Director: Nancy J. Keuthen, Ph.D.
Phone: 617-726-4074; Email: nkeuthen@partners.org

Pain Research

Director: David Borsook, M.D.

Phone: 617-726-3697; Email: dborsook@partners.org

Associate Director: Lino Becerra, Ph.D.

Phone: 617-726-3697; Email: lbecerra@partners.org

Parenting at a Challenging Time (PACT) Program
PACT Research

Director: Paula Rauch, M.D.

Phone: 617-724-7272; Email: PRauch@partners.org

 

Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry; Center for Women’s Mental Health
Perinatal Psychopharmacology, Postpartum Psychiatric Disorder, Peri and Postmenopausal Mood Disorders and Associated Menopausal  Symptoms - Research Program and Education/Women’s Mental Health

Director: Lee S. Cohen, M.D.

Phone: 617-724-0816; Email: lcohen2@partners.org

Director of Research: Hadine Joffe, MD, ScD
Phone : 617.724-1849 ; hjoffe@partners.org

Psycho-Cardiology
Psycho-Cardiology Research Program
                Director of Psychiatry Studies: Jeff Huffman, M.D.
                Phone: 617-724-2910; Email: jhuffman@partners.org

Psycho-Oncology
General Psycho-Oncology Program
                Director: Donna Greenberg, M.D.
                Phone: 617-726-8691; Email: dgreenberg@partners.org

Supportive Oncology Research Program
                Director of Psychiatry Studies: William Pirl, M.D., M.P.H.
                Phone: 617-724-9151; Email: wpirl@partners.org

 

Psychotherapy Research Program

Director: J. Stuart Ablon, M.D.

Phone: 617-726-1604; Email: sablon@partners.org

Clinical Director: Raymond Levy, Psy.D.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: rlevy2@partners.org

Social Neuroscience
Director: Carl Marci, M.D.
Email: cmarci@partners.org

 

Refugee Trauma – Harvard Program

Director: Richard F. Mollica, M.D., M.A.R.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: rmollica@partners.org

 

Clinical Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD

Director: Joseph Biederman, M.D.

 

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – Adult & Pediatric Program

Director: Joseph Biederman, MD
Phone: 617-726-1743; Email: jbiederman@partners.org

Adult ADHD Program
Scientific Coordinator: Surman, Craig, M.D. 
Phone: 617-503-1424; Email: csurman@partners.org

Pediatric ADHD Program
Scientific Coordinator: Hammerness, Paul, M.D.
Phone: 617-503-1063; Email: phammerness@partners.org

 

Bipolar Program

Director: Janet Wozniak, M.D.

Email: wozniak@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

 

Child Psychopharmacology

Director: Joseph Biederman, M.D.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: jbiederman@partners.org

High Risk Studies
Director: Dina R. Hirshfeld-Becker, Ph.D.
Phone: 617-503-1408; Email: dhirshfeld@partners.org

Neuroimaging Program

Director: Larry Seidman, Ph.D. 
Phone: 617-726-0264; Email: larry_seidman@hms.harvard.edu

Pediatric Neuropsychology
Director: Alysa E. Doyle, Ph.D.
Phone: 617-724-1531; Email: doylea@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Co-Director : Ronna Fried, Ed.D.
Phone : 617-724-0963 ; Email : rfried@partners.org

Pediatric OCD and Tourette’s Progra
Director: Daniel A. Geller, M.D.
Email: dageller@partners.org

 

Pediatric Depression Program
                Director : Thomas Spencer, M.D.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: tspencer@partners.org

Pervasive Developmental Disorders Program (PPD) Bressler Center
Director: Joseph Biederman, M.D..
Phone: 617-726-1743; Email:  jbiederman@partners.org

PDD and Autistic Spectrum Program
Clinical Coordinator: Robert Doyle, D.D.S, M.D.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: rdoyle@partners.org
Scientific Coordinator: Gagan Joshi, M.D.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: gjoshi1@partners.org

PET Neuroimaging Program
                Director: Thomas Spencer, M.D.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: tspencer@partners.org

Substance Abuse Program
Director: Timothy Wilens, M.D.
Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: twilens@partners.org

 

CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Chair: Michael Jellinek, M.D.

 

Psychosocial screening in pediatrics and education

Director: Michael Jellinek, M.D.

Associate Director: Michael Murphy, Ed.D.

Phone: 617-724-3163; Email: mmurphy6@partners.org

 

 Measuring outcomes in child psychiatry

Director: Bruce Masek, Ph.D.

Associate Director: Michael Murphy, Ed.D.

Phone: 617-724-3163; Email: mmurphy6@partners.org

 

 Tracking cases of serious child abuse and neglect

Director: Michael Murphy, Ed.D.

Associate Director: Michael Jellinek, M.D.

Phone: 617-724-3163; Email: mmurphy6@partners.org

Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders
                Director: David Herzog, M.D.
                Phone: 617-726-8470; Email: dherzog@partners.org

 

MGH CLINICAL TRIALS NETWORK AND INSTITUTE (CTNI)

Executive Director: Maurizio Fava, M.D.

Phone: 617-724-5600; Email: mfava@partners.org
Medical Director: Mark Pollack, M.D.
Phone: 617-724-0844; Email: mpollack@partners.org

 

 

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