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David C. Henderson, MD
dchenderson@partners.org
David C. Henderson, MD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Schizophrenia Diabetes and Weight Reduction Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, both in Boston, Massachusetts. He also serves as Medical Director for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Clozapine Program at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center, and Associate Director of the Schizophrenia Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the former Coordinator of Psychopharmacology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Henderson received his undergraduate degree at Tufts University in Massachusetts, and his medical degree at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following his internship at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston, he completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and trained as Chief Resident and Research Fellow of the Freedom Trail Clinic at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center, also in Boston.
Dr. Henderson’s main research interests focus on psychopharmacological and antipsychotic agents in the treatment of schizophrenia, impacts of antipsychotic agents on metabolic anomalies and glucose metabolism, and ethnic and cultural impacts on psychiatry. He also studies the impact of trauma in areas of mass violence and develops programs to assist vulnerable populations, including projects in Rwanda, Cambodia, East Timor, Bosnia, New York City, and Louisiana.
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