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Neuroscientist Sabina Berretta, MD , received $35,000 as one of the earliest recipients of a research fellowship from the Rappaport Foundation. The funding supported her research into structural changes that occur in two brain regions of people with schizophrenia. That modest grant laid the...

At a gala event held this month at the Belmont Country Club, McLean Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Joseph Gold, MD , became the inaugural incumbent of the Edward Peabody Lawrence Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. The chair, which endows the chief medical officer position at the...

According to the U.S. News & World Report annual “best hospitals” survey, McLean Hospital is ranked second overall in the nation for psychiatry. This makes McLean America’s best freestanding psychiatric hospital for the 17th consecutive year. A complete list of the 2019 rankings is available online...

McLean researchers Joanna A. Korecka, PhD, assistant neuroscientist at the Neuroregeneration Research Institute (NRI), and Galen Missig, PhD, a research fellow in the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory, are the 2019 winners of the Alfred Pope Award for Young Investigators. It is one of McLean’s highest...

McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and Britain’s DB Recovery Resources (DB Recovery+) are honored to announce the recipients of the first international Deconstructing Stigma Awards. Political statesman Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe and journalist Camilla...

On May 19, NAMI Westside Los Angeles presented its 2019 Distinguished Service award to Blaise Aguirre, MD . He was honored at the group’s Annual Gala , held at the home of philanthropist and mental health advocate Stanley Black. Aguirre is the founding medical director of McLean’s 3East continuum...

On June 12, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of Boston (DBSA) honored McLean Hospital’s Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program (BHP) with its Champions Award. DBSA presented the award at a ceremony held in the de Marneffe Building on McLean’s Belmont campus. DBSA awarded a...

Daniel L. Shapiro, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital and the founder and director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program , is the 2019 recipient of Harvard University’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for Excellence in...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded a $13.5 million grant to a team of McLean Hospital investigators to support their research into stress chemicals and circuits in the brain. According to Bill Carlezon, PhD , chief of McLean’s Jerry and Phyllis Rappaport Center of Excellence...

Charles F. Moore, MD , medical director of McLean SouthEast Adolescent Services, was recently awarded the prestigious 2019 Jonathan O. Cole Award. This annual award—established in 2006, thanks to a gift from the Fleetwing Charitable Foundation—honors Dr. Cole, a former McLean psychiatrist renowned...

It takes a lot of people to keep McLean operating 24/7, 365 days a year—including more than 90 volunteers who serve important roles throughout the hospital. During National Volunteer Week, a nationwide event that provides an opportunity to celebrate the impact of volunteer service held April 7 to...

McLean Hospital is excited to announce that a number of its clinicians have been named to Boston Magazine’s annual “top docs” list for 2019. This list, which is published annually, includes more than 1,500 doctors from over 60 specialties. Below are the seven McLean clinicians who were included in...

When it opened its doors in 1999, McLean SouthEast was a small, 15-bed inpatient unit for adults. Over the years, the facility has grown and evolved, and it is now a multifaceted mental health facility caring for 30 adult and 22 adolescent inpatients, 15 adult and 15 adolescent partial patients, and...

Staci Gruber, PhD , is the most recent winner of the prestigious Anne M. Cataldo Excellence in Mentoring Award. She was formally recognized as the 2018 recipient at a ceremony in a packed Pierce Hall in Belmont, Massachusetts, on January 30, 2019. Gruber is the director of the Marijuana...

McLean Hospital’s Ross J. Baldessarini, MD , director of the International Consortium for Bipolar & Psychotic Disorders Research, has been awarded the 2019 Mogens Schou Award from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). Named for a pioneer in the treatment of bipolar disorder, the...

McLean Hospital’s Jacob C. Holzer, MD , has been named a corecipient of the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for 2019. A joint award presented by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), the Guttmacher award has been presented each year since...

Former Board Chair David Barlow has endowed a fellowship that forges a closer relationship between two institutions that are dear to his heart: McLean Hospital and his alma mater, Bates College. The John Kelsey Fellowship is named after the retired Bates professor who built the college’s...

NFL wide receiver Brandon Marshall received the 2018 McLean Award at the hospital’s annual dinner on June 1. McLean President and Psychiatrist in Chief Scott L. Rauch, MD , donned a Seattle Seahawks cap in homage to the breaking news that Marshall had just been drafted to the Seattle team. Rauch...

Kevin Norris, MHS, Receives Julia Altschule Award For 2018, Kevin Norris, MHS, is the recipient of the Julia Altschule Award. Given annually to a mental health specialist or staff nurse who has worked at McLean for two years or longer and who exemplifies the highest level of humane care for patients...