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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Teaching Faculty - Cambridge Health Alliance

Faculty List - Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Clinical and Research Leaders

Margarita Alegria, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research

Dr. Alegria and her staff at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research conduct mental health services research that aims to help shape policy, practice and service delivery to reduce disparities and improve the well-being of multicultural populations. Dr. Alegría is currently the Principal Investigator of the Advanced Center for Latino and Mental Health Systems Research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which focuses on understanding the factors affecting mental health service disparities for multicultural populations and generating the research and knowledge to eliminate them. Dr. Alegria is also Principal Investigator of a NCMHD-funded Challenge Grant titled "Reducing Ethnic and Racial Bias in Screening for Psychiatric Disorders in Adolescents." She serves as co-Principal Investigator of the NCMHD-funded UPR-CHA Research Center of Excellence, a disparities center grant with the goal of generating and testing interventions that can remedy service disparities.

Gloria Carrera, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Acting Medical Director, Adolescent Assessment Unit, CHA Cambridge Hospital campus

Gloria Carrera, MD, has been at CHA on the Adolescent Assesment Unit since 2006, and assumed the role of acting Medical Director in 2008. Dr Carrera joined CHA staff after finishing her Child Fellowship training at Tufts-New England Medical Center Child and Adolescent Training Program. She completed her General Psychiatry training at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital/Columbia University in New York City. Prior to coming to the US, Dr. Carrera worked for four years in Family Medicine in rural areas in Peru, her native country, focusing in community medicine. Dr Carrera has a strong interest in providing compassionate care to adolescents and families in acute crisis within an interdisciplinary framework. She has a particular interest in helping underserved children from a variety of cultural backgrounds with highly complex pathologies.

Nicholas Carson, MD, FRCPC
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research

Dr. Carson is a graduate of the child psychiatry fellowship at the Cambridge Health Alliance and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. His research in mental health services for multicultural communities has explored the quality and social determinants of mental health treatment among Haitian, African American, and white youth. He is currently an investigator on the Right Question Project-Mental Health study, a multi-site randomized controlled trial of a bilingual patient activation intervention for adults in mental health treatment. Dr. Carson also studies and has presented on the effects of mass media on the mental health of youth and families. Dr. Carson is a teacher of the summer Scholarly Activities course for first-year fellows, and he co-leads the Clinical Scholarship (Journal Club) course for first and second-year fellows.

Joel Goldstein, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Acting Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Associate Chief for Clinical Services, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Acting Chief for Clinical Services, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Joel Goldstein, MD, completed his training in General Psychiatry at The Massachusetts Mental Health Center in 1990 and his training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital in 1992. He has pursued his interest in community psychiatry and systems of care during the course of his career.

Dr. Goldstein served as Medical Director of the Child Assessment Unit at the Cambridge Hospital and later became the Director of Intensive Services in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance. He served as the Medical Director at The Home for Little Wanderers from 2001 to 2005. Dr. Goldstein returned to Cambridge Health Alliance in November 2005 to assume his current role.

Dr. Goldstein has also maintained a strong interest in psychotherapy and outpatient practice. He has worked in private practice since 1992.

Katherine Grimes, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Children's Health Initiative (CHI), Psychiatric Research & Academic Center

The focus of CHI is children's health services research, including identification of key contributors to the improvement of clinical quality and cost effectiveness for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families. Current activities, guided by the CHI Advisory Group, include dissemination of findings from analysis of longitudinal data on clinical functioning, service utilization, cost, and care experience drawn from the Mental Health Services Program for Youth (MHSPY), for which Dr. Grimes served as Principal Investigator. Initially sponsored as a two year pilot by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the MHSPY program operated for twelve years as a nationally and internationally recognized model for integrated systems of care, demonstrating innovations in: 1) clinical delivery of children's health services, 2) child mental health policy and governance structures, and 3) health care financing. Other CHI activities include research collaborations with the Center for Health Care Strategies, the Harvard Dept. of Health Care Policy, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Tufts Medical School. Dr. Grimes consults at a national level on health care quality measurement and is actively involved in teaching Child Psychiatry fellows, HSPH students and medical students via Harvard Medical School.

Judith Howe, LICSW
Teaching Associate, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Psychiatry Social Work
Associate Director, Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry; Chief, Psychiatry Social Work; Acting Director, Child Psychiatry Outpatient Services

Judith Howe completed her child/adult social work training at The Children's Hospital and Cambridge Health Alliance, and has additional training in clinical art therapy with children and families. She is an Advanced Candidate at the Advanced Training Program at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Her administrative responsibilities include oversight of the Social Work Service and helping to run the Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Service. She has a clinical interest in adoption-related issues, as well as art as assessment and therapy, and family-based therapy.

Xenia Johnson, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director of Community Minority Affairs

Xenia Johnson, MD, completed a General Psychiatry residency at the Medical University of South Carolina and her child training at The Cambridge Hospital. Upon completing her training in Child Psychiatry in 2000, she worked as a staff psychiatrist on the Child Assessment Unit. Previously, Dr. Johnson was the Associate Director of Training for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program, and she currently works as a consultant to the Cambridge and Malden Public School systems. In addition, she has worked as a community child psychiatrist for underserved populations in Massachusetts. Dr. Johnson's interests led her to create a biracial girls group focusing on the challenges facing teenaged girls around identity formation. Her other interests include consulting to community organizations and exploring the issues around diagnosing children with both medical and psychiatric disorders.

Nancy Rappaport, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director of School Programs

Nancy Rappaport, MD, completed her General Psychiatry Training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and her Child & Adolescent training at The Cambridge Hospital. Her particular passion is training child psychiatrists to provide support to students and teachers. Particular research interests are in community based participatory research (with schools), understanding and providing safety assessments of aggressive students, refining CBT for traumatized adolescents, and writing creatively (having published a memoir, In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide, in September 2009).

Debra S. Rosenblum, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Acting Medical Director, Child Outpatient

Debra S. Rosenblum, MD, completed her General Psychiatry training and her Child and Adolescent Fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance. Currently she serves as the Acting Medical Director of the Outpatient Department in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and as a Preceptor for the Second Year Child Fellow Psychopharmacology Clinic. She has a particular interest in children's' relationship to popular culture and has published on this topic. She has also served on the Television and Media Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Elizabeth Ross, MD
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Child Assessment Unit, CHA Cambridge Hospital campus

Elizabeth Ross, MD, completed her training in General Psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC in 1990 and her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at University of California San Francisco, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in 1992. She is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Upon completion of her commitment to the US Army as a medical officer and physician, Dr. Ross pursued her interest in improving behavioral health services for adults and children as as Associate Medical Director for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, designing and implementing Quality Improvement initiatives and managing Crisis Evaluation Services. She was then recruited to serve as Medical Director of Beacon Health Strategies, the largest MBHO in the state, serving MassHealth Members. During her 18-year tenure as a leader in managed behavioral health care, Dr. Ross has pursued her interest in Quality Improvement and high risk case management at two additional organizations, working to improve rates of followup post hospitalization and lowering hospital readmission rates for children and adults at Magellan Health Services, the partner to BCBSMA and most recently at BMC HealthNet Plan. Before assuming her position as Medical Director of CHA's Child Assessment Unit, Dr. Ross worked with the State's Medicaid Program to help develop the full array of community based serivces, screening programs and enhanced emergency services that now constitute the state's Children's Behavioral Health Initiative. During this time, she also maintained a part-time outpatient psychopharmacolgy practice to stay current on medication treatments as well as to gain a first-hand understanding of the needs of children and families.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Teaching Faculty - Cambridge Health Alliance

Margarita Alegria, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director for the Center of Multicultural Mental Health Research. Academic Interests: Engagement, retention in care; provider-patient alliance; communication in clinical encounters; service disparities; clinical uncertainty; diagnostic calibration for multicultural populations.

Judith Arons, LICSW
Teaching Associate in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic interests: Parent-infant psychotherapy, application of infant research and attachment/intersubjectivity theory to psychoanalytic treatment of children, adolescents, individual adults and couples

John Baker, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Children's reactions to divorce; children and families and bereavement; trauma and abuse; attachment and interpersonal theories.

Ayelet Barkai, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Adolescent Development; Gender Identity and Sexuality Development; Attachment; Psychoanalysis.

Sherry Bauman, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic interests: College mental health, adolescence, impact of culture on the psychiatric encounter, attachment theory, internal family system paradigm

James Barrett, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: Juvenile justice, police and mental health, at-risk boys and violence prevention.

Carol Becker, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Seminar leader, family therapy. Academic Interests: Family therapy

Sarah Birss, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Early emotional development, parent-infant psychotherapy, integration of attachment and psychoanalytic theories, psychoanalytic treatment.

Gloria Carrera, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Acting Medical Director, Adolescent Assessment Unit.

Nicholas Carson, MD, FRCPC
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: mental health service disparities for ethnic minority youth, clinical scholarship during fellowship training, youth engagement with media and technology

Peter Chubinsky, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Integrating psychopharmacological and psychotherapy treatments in children and adolescents; psychoanalytic psychotherapy of children and adolescents; psychotherapeutic implications of infancy research.

Michele Deneys, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: Inpatient psychiatry.

Timothy Dugan, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Suicide prevention; development of resilience.

Ann R. Epstein, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Infant Parent Training Institute, Center for Early Relationship Support, Jewish Family and Children's Services. Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute Areas of interest: Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Infant Development, Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Lauren Esposito, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Clinical work with deaf children, adolescents, and adults, conducted in American Sign Language; teaching; psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Laura Gaugh, PsyD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: Neuropsychological testing, developmental disorders.

Margaret Gean, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: Psychoanalysis. Preschool issues, psychotherapy, diagnosis and evaluation.

Joel Goldstein, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor. Harvard Medical School. Associate Chief for Clinical Services. Acting Division Chief. Academic Interests: Inpatient care patterns and improvements for children and adolescents; community and family-based interventions in child and adolescent psychiatry; fire-setting behaviors in children and adolescents. Systems of Care in Children's' Mental Health Services

Ross Greene, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Child psychopathology, school interventions, Cooperative Problem Solving.

Sanjay Gulati, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Clinical work with deaf children, adolescents, and families, conducted in American Sign Language; teaching; the effects of late language exposure on the behavior of deaf children.

Jill Elka Harkaway, EdD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Family therapy; couples therapy; systems consultation.

Jennifer Harris, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: College mental health, parent guidance, psychodynamic therapy, and mood dysregulation in children.

Treniece Lewis Harris, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Academic Interests: Adolescent mental health and multicultural issues in psychotherapy.

Alexandra Harrison, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Academic Interests: Evaluation and treatment of young children and their families. Videotape microanalysis of clinical work and teaching.

Barbara Hauser, LICSW
Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Family Service Clinic, Middlesex Probate Court. Academic Interests: Effects of divorce on children; parental conflict; clinical roles and interventions within legal settings.

Jeanne Heiple, MD, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Child psychiatry consultation in the preschool setting; early childhood development.

Ann Hess, MD, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study
Academic interest: interface with parents during child/adolescent psychotherapy.

Albert A. Hyman, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Psychotherapy; psychoanalysis; psychopharmacology.

Xenia Johnson MD
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Director of Community Minority Affairs for Pediatric Psychiatry. Academic Interests: Public Health Psychiatry; School and System Consultations; Disparities of Care in Pediatric Psychiatry

Neal Kass, MD
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: Integration of Therapeutics: Neuropsychiatric, Family, Psychodynamic, Psychoanalytic.

Deborah Kulick, MD
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School.
Academic interests: Domestic violence, homelessness, school-based treatment.

Karen Levine, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Diagnosis, emotional development and behavioral challenges of children with Developmental Disabilities. School consultation regarding children with Developmental Disabilities and/or autism related issues

Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Trauma and social stressors on parent-child relationships over time and the effects of attachment-oriented parenting supports in therapeutic interventions.

Cynthia Mittelmeier, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology. Harvard Medical School Academic Interests: Family therapy

Carol Murphy, LICSW
Director, Care Coordination Services, Cambridge Youth Guidance Center

Anna Ornstein, MD
Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Academic Interests: therapeutic process, parenting and survival and recovery from extreme conditions

Christopher Pagano, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Training. Play Therapy. Trauma and neglect. Psychological Testing.

Bina Patel, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; MIT Medical Staff Psychiatrist
Academic Interests: College Mental Health

Ava Bry Penman, MS
Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Academic Interests: psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy of children and adolescents and their parents/families; consultation to teachers
and schools, especially of very young children; college mental health issues.

Adele Pressman, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Group psychotherapy for children and adolescents, working with parents in groups, early childhood development,
adolescent transitions.

Rebecca Pries, CAGS, LMHC
Director, Adolescent Consultation Services, Middlesex County Juvenile Court.
Academic Interests: Learning disorders in court-involved adolescents.

Anjana Rajan, PsyD.
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Academic Interests: child acute services, school consultation, Psychodynamic psychotherapy, cross-cultural issues in child and adolescent treatment, inpatient family therapy, immigrant teens, risk assessment, psychological testing.

Nancy Rappaport, MD
Assistant professor of Psychiatry Director of School programs CHA. Academic interests: School consultation, aggression and safety assessment in students, memoir writing.

Adam Rosen, JD, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Modes of empathic communication in psychotherapy; therapist practices regarding communication with parents in families of divorce.

Debra S. Rosenblum, MD
Assistant Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Child Psychiatrist, Acting Medical Director, Outpatient Service, CHA
Academic Interests: Popular culture; pervasive development disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Maria Sauzier, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Responses to traumatizing childhood events.

Stephanie Smith, MA, MSW
Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Training and Supervising. Analyst, the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
Academic Interests: Child, adolescent and adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Emily Speagle, LICSW
Senior Social Worker, Somerville Adolescent Inpatient Unit. Academic Interests: Cross-cultural therapy.

Frederick Stoddard, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Psychiatric aspects of burns in children; assessment of coping and psychopathology; psychological effects of plastic surgery on children and adolescents.

Jeanne Strassburger, PhD
Teaching Associate in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Cognitive-behavioral therapy in children and adolescents, integrative psychotherapy and skills building group therapy with children.

Nandini Talwar, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth; integration of mental health services with pediatric practices; major mental illness in children and adolescents.

Judy Tsafrir, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Academic Interests: Psychoanalysis, Integrative/Holistic Psychiatry

Susan Walker, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: Psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

John Wechter, EdD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Academic Interests: Psychotherapy of children and adolescents

Christine Wittmann, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Staff Psychiatrist, Psychiatric Emergency Services. Academic Interests: Evaluation and management of children and adolescents in the emergency setting, psycho-oncology, parenting.

FACULTY LIST - DIVISION OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

Margarita Alegria, PhD
Judith Arons, MSW
Susan Ayers, LICSW
John Baker, PhD
Ayelet Barkai, MD
James Barrett, PhD
Margaret Bauman, MD
Sherry Bauman, MD
Carol Becker, PhD
Sarah Birss, MD
Elizabeth G. Brenner, LICSW
Lawrence Brown, PhD
Gloria Carrera, MD
Nicholas Carson, MD
Richard Chasin, MD
David Chedekel, EdD
Peter Chubinsky, MD
Daphne Davidson, LICSW
Sandra DeJong, MD
Michele Deneys, MD
Ruth Drasin, PhD
Timothy Dugan, MD
Seda Ebrahimi, PhD
Marla Eby, PhD
Ann Epstein, MD
Lauren Esposito, PhD
Dov Fogel, MD
Marshall Forstein, MD
Laura Gaugh, PsyD
Alicia S. Gavalya, MD
Margaret Gean, MD
Joel Goldstein, MD
Len Greenberg, PhD
Ross Greene, PhD
Katherine Grimes, MD
Sanjay Gulati, MD
Jill Harkaway, EdD
Jennifer Harris, MD
Alexandra Harrison, MD
Barbara Hauser, LICSW
Jeanne Heiple, MD, PhD
Ann Hess, MD, PhD
Judith Howe, LICSW
William Hudgins, PhD
Albert Hyman, MD
Xenia Johnson, MD
Neal Kass, MD

Deborah Kulick, MD
Maydee Lande, LICSW
Patrick Latham, PhD
Karen Levine, PhD
Treniece Lewis Harris, PhD
Marc Libman, MD
Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD
Cynthia Mittelmeier, PhD
Simona Murnick, MD
Ann Neumeyer, MD
Barbara Okun, PhD
Anna Ornstein, MD
Miriam Ornstein, MD
Laura Pabo
Christopher Pagano, PhD
Bina Patel, MD
Ava Penman, MS
Adele Pressman, MD
Rebecca Pries, CAGS, LMHC
Anjana Rajan, PsyD
Nancy Rappaport, MD
Laurie Raymond, MD
Kathleen Regan, RN
Adam Rosen, JD, PhD
Debra Rosenblum, MD
Maria Sauzier, MD
Susannah Sherry, MD
Stephanie Smith, LICSW
Emily Speagle, LICSW
Frederick Stoddard, MD
Jeanne Strassburger, PhD
Lyn E. Styczynski, PhD
Nandini Talwar, MD
Cynthia J. Telingator, MD
Stephanie Tournet, MD
Judy Tsafrir, MD
Marta Valiente, LICSW
Susan Walker, MD
Heidi Webster, PhD
John Wechter, EdD
Deborah Weidner, MD
Yvette Westlake, MD
David Wilcox, PhD
Christine Wittmann, MD
Charlene Zuffante LICSW