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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 are the recipients of a prestigious five-year grant for an Advanced Center for Latino and Mental Health Systems Research, awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The Advanced Center will focus on research that addresses pervasive ethnic and racial disparities in mental health service utilization and in mental health status.

Dr. Alegria is also Principal Investigator of the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), which aims to estimate mental health and substance abuse disorders as well as rates of mental health and health service use for a nationally representative sample of Asians and Latinos. Dr. Alegría serves as co-Principal Investigator of the NCMHD-funded Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training (EXPORT), a study that proposes to generate and test interventions that can remedy service disparities in asthma and mental health for disadvantaged Latino and African Caribbean populations.

Joel Goldstein, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate 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.

Judith Howe, LICSW
Teaching Associate, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Psychiatry Social Work
Associate Director, Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Services

Judith Howe completed her child/adult social work training at Boston 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 Cambridge Health Alliance. 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, and refining CBT for traumatized adolescents and writing creatively (having published a memoir in September 2009).

Deborah Weidner, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Child Psychiatry Outpatient Services

Deborah Weidner, MD, MBA, completed a General Psychiatry residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a Child Psychiatry Fellowship at Boston's Children's Hospital. She worked on the Adolescent Assessment Unit for five years, three of them as the Medical Director. As Director of Child Outpatient Services for the past 6 years, Dr. Weidner is working to improve access to mental health services through co-location and integration with primary care, a telephone consultation program, and formal consultation meetings with pediatricians and family medicine doctors. In 2006, Dr. Weidner received her MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Areas of research/interest include integrating mental health and primary care and associated outcomes, mental health screening in pediatric practices and associated outcomes, and quality improvement. Deborah will be stepping down from this role by the end of September 2009.

TEACHING FACULTY

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, HMS, Department of Child Psychiatry CHA; Faculty, Infant-Parent Training Institute, Jewish Family and Children's Service, Waltham Ma. 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; Clinical Psychologist, Family Service Court; Supervisor; Co-teacher, Forensics II.
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; Psychotherapy Supervisor
Academic Interests: Adolescent Development; Gender Identity and Sexuality Development; Attachment; Psychoanalysis.

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, HMS, Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Faculty, Infant-Parent Training Institute at Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Boston.
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. Seminar leader in clinical scholarship and research literacy. Preceptor of second year psychopharmacology clinic.
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; Supervisor; Coordinator, and Co-teacher, Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents.
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. Inpatient child psychiatry attending.
Academic Interests: Inpatient psychiatry.

Timothy Dugan, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Senior Consultant to Education; Supervisor; Co-teacher, Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents.
Academic Interests: Suicide prevention; development of resilience.

Ann R. Epstein, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Supervisor, Cambridge Hospital Faculty, 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; Supervisor; Teacher; Team Leader, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service.
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. Teacher, preschool elective, play seminar
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. , Teacher, Transitions to Practice Seminar
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

Sanjay Gulati, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Supervisor; Teacher; Director, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service.
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; Supervisor; Teacher, Family Therapy Seminar.
Academic Interests: Family therapy; couples therapy; systems consultation.

Jennifer Harris, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Teacher, Normal Development Seminar; Inpatient supervisor.
Academic Interests: College mental health, parent guidance, psychodynamic therapy, and mood dysregulation in children.

Treniece Lewis Harris, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Staff Psychologist; Multicultural Specialist.
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; Teacher, Play Therapy seminar; Supervisor..
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; Co-teacher, Forensics.
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; Director, Preschool Rotation; Supervisor; Teacher.
Academic Interests: Child psychiatry consultation in the preschool setting; early childhood development.

Ann Hess, MD, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center; Attending to the Long Term Psychotherapy Clinic, Yale Department of Psychiatry.
Academic interest: interface with parents during child/adolescent psychotherapy.

Albert A. Hyman, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Supervisor; Consultant, Diagnostic Evaluation Team.
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. Seminar leader
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; Preceptor for the developmental disorder rotation.
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; Supervising Psychologist; Co-teacher, Infancy and Parenting.
Academic Interests: Trauma and social stressors on parent-child relationships over time and the effects of attachment-oriented parenting supports in therapeutic interventions.

Mark Miceli, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Attending, Adolescent Assessment Unit.
Academic Interests: Inpatient adolescent psychiatry.

Cynthia Mittelmeier, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology. Harvard Medical School. Family Therapy Seminar co-leader.
Academic Interests: Family therapy.

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; Psychologist, Child Assessment Unit. Director of Child Inpatient Psychology Training, CHA. 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; Supervisor; Teacher.
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; Supervisor; Teacher, Group Therapy Seminars.
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, Supervising Psychologist/ Director of Adolescent Inpatient Psychology Training Adolescent Assessment Unit. Staff psychologist/ Child OPD. 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 Cambridge Health Alliance
Academic interests: School consultation, aggression and safety assessment in students , memoir writing

Adam Rosen, JD, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Seminar Instructor, Forensic Issues in Child Psychiatry.
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; preceptor second year psychopharmacology clinic.
Academic Interests: Popular culture; pervasive development disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Maria Sauzier, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Developer and Co-teacher, Child Development and Psychopathology (core HMS seminar); Supervisor; Consultant, Inpatient Team.
Academic Interests: Responses to traumatizing childhood events.

Stephanie Smith, MA, MSW
Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Supervisor, Adult and Child Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital; Training and Supervising Analyst and Co-Chair, Child Analysis Committee at 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. Director, C-L Rotation at Shriners Burns Hospital.
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. CBT Supervisor.
Academic Interests: Cognitive-behavioral therapy in children and adolescents, integrative psychotherapy and skills building group therapy with kids.

Nandini Talwar, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Attending Psychiatrist, Systems Consultation to State Agencies Rotation.
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; Co-teacher Interviewing Seminar/Case Conference of Children and Adolescents
Academic Interests: Psychoanalysis, Integrative/Holistic Psychiatry

Kirsten Wagner, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Child Assessment Unit, attending inpatient child psychiatry.

Susan Walker, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Staff Child Psychiatrist; preceptor first year psychopharmacology clinic.. Academic Interests: Psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

Heidi Webster, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Academic Interests: Attachment and depression, childhood anxiety and behavioral medicine, integrative treatment of children and adolescents.

John Wechter, EdD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Activities: Supervisor and Teacher Seminar: Clinical Integration and Formulation
Academic Interests: Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents

Yvette Westlake, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Staff Psychiatrist, Child/Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Services/Adolescent Assessment Unit.

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.

Robert G. Ziegler, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Community Relations; Diagnostic Team Leader; Supervisor; Teacher,
Academic Interests: Integrating Treatment. Child development within family systems and family-based cognitive-behavioral/dynamic/systems treatment techniques; violence exposure and impact of domestic violence on children and adolescents; epilepsy's effect on cognitive and psychological function of the patient and associated impact on family function.

Charlene Zuffante LICSW
Director of Wraparound Services, The Cambridge Guidance Center.