John W. Denninger, M.D., Ph.D.

John W. Denninger, M.D., Ph.D. is a staff psychiatrist in the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a fellow in the Clinical Investigator Training Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard University and went on to complete his M.D. and Ph.D. (in Biological Chemistry) at the University of Michigan. Dr. Denninger completed his internship and residency in the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program and served as Chief Resident in Psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Denninger studies unipolar depression and is especially interested in its biological basis - focusing on biological markers, animal models and evolutionary constraints.