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Clinical and Research LeadersChild and Adolescent Psychiatry Teaching Faculty - Cambridge Health AllianceFaculty List - Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
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Clinical and Research Leaders
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, 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.
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, 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.
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 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 Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Service and the CHA Social Work Training Program. She has a clinical interest in adoption-related issues, as well as art as assessment and therapy, and family-based therapy.
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, 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, 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, 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. Jacob Venter, MD Dr. Venter completed medical school in South Africa. He completed his Psychiatry Training at the Maricopa Integrated Health System in Phoenix, AZ and his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance. He spent a year at McLean Hospital, completing a child and adolescent neuropsychiatry fellowship with Dr. Jean Frazier, worked at MGH and became the Medical Director for the Adolescent Assessment Unit at CHA. He returned to Arizona to become the Associate Program Director in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program prior to rejoining CHA in his current role. 
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Margarita
Alegria, PhD
Gloria
Carrera, MD
Nicholas
Carson, MD, FRCPC 
Joel
Goldstein, MD
Katherine
Grimes, MD, MPH
Judith
Howe, LICSW
Xenia
Johnson, MD
Nancy
Rappaport, MD
Debra
S. Rosenblum, MD
Elizabeth
Ross, MD