David C. Henderson, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Schizophrenia Program

David Henderson, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Schizophrenia Diabetes and Weight Reduction Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. His current positions also include 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, Associate Director of the Schizophrenia Program at Massachusetts Hospital, Boston, and Associate Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the former Coordinator of Psychopharmacology and Adjunct Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Henderson received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University, Massachusetts in 1984 before graduating with an MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1988. Following his internship at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Boston, he completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and trained as Chief Resident and Research Fellow of the Freedom Trail Clinic at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center in Boston.

Dr. Henderson’s main research interests center 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 which include projects in Rwanda, Cambodia, East Timor, Bosnia, and New York City.

Dr. Henderson has lectured extensively throughout the United States and internationally on schizophrenia, treatment-resistant schizophrenia, metabolic disorders and schizophrenia, psychopharmacology, ethnopsychopharmacology, trauma and cultural psychiatry. He has lectured at grand rounds nationally and internationally, including MGH, as well as CME Courses on topics such as psychosis, antipsychotic agents, psychopharmacology, ethnopsychopharmacology, and multicultural medicine and psychiatry.