Depression Related Content

Staff Profile: Beth L. Murphy, MD, PhD

Beth L. Murphy, MD, PhD, is medical director of the LEADER (Law Enforcement, Active Duty, Emergency Responder) Outpatient Clinic’s Mood, Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma Track. Within the clinic, she is responsible for the oversight of the policies and procedures of the clinic and is committed to...

Staff Profile: Elif Engin, PhD

Elif Engin, PhD, grew up in Ankara, Turkey, and earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. She completed her doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Dallas Treit in Edmonton, Alberta, and was awarded a PhD Thesis Award from the Canadian...

Staff Profile: Steven E. Gelda, MD

Steven E. Gelda, MD, focuses his clinical interest and expertise on ways to help stabilize psychiatrically hospitalized patients who enter the hospital in crisis due to environmental and interpersonal factors as well as those experiencing an episode of major mental illness. His skills include the...

Staff Profile: Charles F. Moore, MD

Charles F. Moore, MD, completed his combined pediatric, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry residency at Tufts-Floating Hospital for Children. He has been medical director of the Boston Emergency Services Team, a psychiatry attending and medical director of Tufts-Floating...

Staff Profile: Jacqueline A. Samson, PhD

Jacqueline A. Samson, PhD, is a clinical associate at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School. Her chief research interests involve understanding the biopsychosocial underpinnings of depressive illnesses...

Staff Profile: Christian A. Webb, PhD

Christian A. Webb, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth (TEDY) Laboratory at McLean Hospital. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of...

Staff Profile: Andrew M. Stromberg, MD

Andrew M. Stromberg, MD, is the medical director of the McLean-Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program located at Franciscan Hospital for Children. He has been involved with the program since 1992. Dr. Stromberg works with the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Child and...

Staff Profile: Ipsit Vahia, MD

Ipsit Vahia, MD, is a geriatric psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher. He is the interim chief of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and director of Digital Psychiatry Translation at McLean Hospital. He is also director of the Technology and Aging Laboratory. His research focuses on the use of...

Staff Profile: Poornima Kumar, PhD

Poornima Kumar, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an assistant neuroscientist at McLean Hospital. Her research interests focus on investigating the mechanisms through which humans learn and process reinforcements (both rewards and punishments) and how these...

Staff Profile: Emily L. Belleau, PhD

Emily L. Belleau, PhD, completed her doctoral studies in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under the mentorship of Christine Larson, PhD. After completing a clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Clinical Psychology Consortium, she joined the Laboratory for...

Staff Profile: Munya Hayek, MD

Munya Hayek, MD, is triple board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and pediatrics. She is the associate medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and serves as associate program director of the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent...

Staff Profile: Robert C. Meisner, MD

Robert C. Meisner, MD, is the medical director of the Ketamine Service in the Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program at McLean Hospital and an attending psychiatrist in the Acute Psychiatric Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. He graduated from Princeton Summa cum laude and attended Harvard...

Staff Profile: Karen Monroe, MD

Karen Monroe, MD, has been the medical director of McLean Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic since 2004. She also serves as the child and adolescent psychiatrist for the 3East DBT Outpatient Clinic at McLean. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Monroe coordinates the Child Outpatient Rotation...

Staff Profile: Hayley Parét, MSN, PMHNP-BC

Hayley Parét, MSN, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Breaking the barriers of traditional nursing practice, Ms. Parét is one of the first nurse practitioners to become both an ECT and ketamine provider at McLean’s Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program. Ms...

Staff Profile: Michael Grocki, MA, BSN

Michael Grocki, MA, BSN, is the nurse director of the Short Term Unit, where he supervises the inpatient nursing care of adults with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, including mood disorders. He specializes in the nursing care of adults with depression, anxiety, and personality disorders in an...

Staff Profile: Agustin G. Yip, MD, PhD

Agustin G. Yip, MD, PhD, is the medical director of the North Belknap Inpatient Program at McLean Hospital. Dr. Yip’s research interests include the optimal design, conduct, analysis, and cumulative synthesis of comparative effectiveness studies of neuromodulation in psychiatry.

Staff Profile: Ying Cao, MD, MEng

Ying Cao, MD, MEng, practices personalized and integrative psychiatry guided by concepts from systems engineering, developmental and cross-cultural psychology, as well as evolving paradigms of psychiatry and general medicine. Her interests include traditional mind-body medicine, modern molecular and...

Staff Profile: Arkadiy L. Maksimovskiy, PhD

Arkadiy L. Maksimovskiy, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist with a research focus on positive emotions. His goal is twofold: to find out what happens in the brain when positive affect goes awry, and to identify ways in which positive emotions can boost resilience towards negative events. Dr...

Staff Profile: John B. Roseman, MD

John B. Roseman, MD, has interests spanning a broad range, with expertise in bioinformatics, medical education, and neurotherapeutics, particularly electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). As the associate director of the ECT Service at McLean Hospital, Dr. Roseman shares oversight of the busiest ECT...

Staff Profile: Ellen S. Gillespie, LICSW

Ellen S. Gillespie, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in the Department of Social Work at McLean Hospital. She completed a one year fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 2016 and is currently a student in the...