Course Directors
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
2024 Faculty
Faculty information for the 2025 course is not yet available.
Lois W. Choi-Kain, MD, MEd
Director, Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute; Director, Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute Research Program, McLean Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Esther J. Dechant, MD
Medical Director, Klarman Eating Disorders Center, McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Kristina M. Deligiannidis, MD
Professor, Institute of Behavioral Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Director, Women’s Behavioral Health, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health
Professor, Psychiatry, Molecular Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Darin D. Dougherty, MD
Director, Division of Neurotherapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Education and Training at The Fenway Institute
Michele and Howard J Kessler Chair and Director, Division of Public and Community Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Chief, Public and Community Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Christopher J. McDougle, MD
Director, Lurie Center for Autism, Massachusetts General Hospital
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD
Founder and Director, Institute for Trauma Informed Systems Change, McLean/Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Staff Psychiatrist, LEADER Program, McLean Hospital
Dost Öngür, MD, PhD
Chief, Psychotic Disorders Division, McLean Hospital
William P. and Henry B. Test Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Marjorie M. Overhiser, BA
Conference Coordinator, McLean Hospital
Christopher M. Palmer, MD
Director, Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital
Founder and Director, Metabolic and Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Chief, Center of Excellence in Depression and Anxiety Disorders
James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry
Director, Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory, McLean Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Mark A. Schechter, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham Salem Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry, Part-time, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Tufts Medical School
Member Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Member, Boston Suicide Study Group
Stephen J. Seiner, MD
Director, Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program
Medical Director, Electroconvulsive Therapy Service,
McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Ann K. Shinn, MD, MPH
Director of Clinical Research, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program, McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Craig B. Surman, MD, MD
Scientific Coordinator, Adult ADHD Research Program of the Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Ipsit V. Vahia, MD
Interim Chief, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry
Director, Digital Psychiatry Translation
Director, Technology and Aging Laboratory, McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Roger D. Weiss, MD
Chief, Division of Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction, McLean Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
John W. Winkelman, MD, PhD
Chief, Sleep Disorders Clinical Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School