Hilary S. Connery, MD, PhD

Hilary S. Connery, MD, PhD

McLean Hospital Title
Harvard Medical School Title
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Biography

Hilary S. Connery, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and serves as the clinical director for McLean Hospital’s Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction. Dr. Connery’s expertise includes treatment of opioid use disorders and integrated treatments for co-occurring substance use disorders and other mental illnesses. Her current research efforts are directed toward public health prevention strategies for addressing self-injury mortality, and patient-focused investigation regarding suicidal motivations contributing to drug overdose.

Dr. Connery is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has served within the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry as New England area director, co-chair of the policy committee, and as a national mentor within the national mentoring program through Providers Clinical Support System. In these roles, she actively advocates for more effective responses to the drug overdose and suicide epidemics, and also nationally mentors clinicians in evidence-based treatment of substance use disorders.

Expertise

Books

Book cover - Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder

Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder
edited by Lois W. Choi-Kain, MD, MEd, and Hilary Connery, MD, PhD
(American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2024)

Book cover - Complete Family Guide to Addiction

The Complete Family Guide to Addiction: Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself
by Thomas F. Harrison and Hilary S. Connery
(Guildford Press, 2019)

Book cover - Integrated Group Therapy

Integrated Group Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Substance Abuse
by Roger D. Weiss, MD, and Hilary S. Connery, MD, PhD
(Guilford Press, 2011)

Education & Training

Degrees:
  • 1988 BA in Neurobiology, Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 MD, PhD in Neuroscience, Curriculum in Neurobiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Residency:
  • 1996-2000 Adult Psychiatry Training Program, Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital
  • 1999-2000 Clinical Fellow, Personality Disorders Institute, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Board Certifications:
  • 1998 Medical License, Board of Registration in Medicine, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Contact

Phone: 617.855.4681
Office Address: Belmont campus - Proctor House, Room 313