Michael J. Ostacher, MD, MPH

Staff Psychiatrist
Harvard Bipolar Research Program
Massachusetts General Hospital

Instructor in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Michael J. Ostacher, MD, MPH, is a research psychiatrist at the Harvard Bipolar Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Ostacher received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He received is Medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed his Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed his residency and fellowship training at Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Hospital. Dr. Ostacher is a Diplomate on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry.

Dr. Ostacher received a New Investigator Award in 2004 from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Ostacher's major research interest is bipolar disorder and comorbid substance abuse, and has received a National Institute of Mental Health research grant to study substance abuse and mood. He is the principal U.S. investigator for BALANCE, a multinational study of maintenance treatments for bipolar disorder run by Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and is the principal investigator for a study of antidepressants in rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. He has presented his research at national and international meetings, and has lectured extensively on mood disorders in the United States and Europe.