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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

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.

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.

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.

Deborah Weidner, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Child Psychiatry Outpatient Services
Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Development

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.

TEACHING FACULTY

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

John Baker, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Psychologist, Family Service Court; Supervisor; Co-teacher, Forensics II.
Children's reactions to divorce; children and families and bereavement; trauma and abuse; attachment and interpersonal theories.

Nick Carson, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Seminar leader in clinical scholarship and research literacy.
Cross-cultural issues in child psychiatry.

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

Peter Chubinsky, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Supervisor; Coordinator, and Co-teacher, Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents.
Integrating psychopharmacological and psychotherapy treatments in children and adolescents; psychoanalytic psychotherapy of children and adolescents; psychotherapeutic implications of infancy research.

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

Margaret P. Gean, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Psychoanalysis. Preschool issues.

Joel Goldstein, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Associate Chief for Clinical Services. Teacher, Transitions to Practice Seminar.
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.

Sanjay Gulati, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Supervisor; Teacher; Director, Outpatient Clinic for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children, Adolescents, and Families.
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.
Family therapy; couples therapy; systems consultation.

Jennifer Harris, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Teacher, Normal Development Seminar; Inpatient supervisor.
College mental health.

Treniece Lewis Harris, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Staff Psychologist; Multicultural Specialist.
Adolescent mental health and multicultural issues in psychotherapy.

Alexandra Harrison, MD
Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Teacher, Play Therapy seminar; Supervisor.
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.
Effects of divorce on children; parental conflict; intervention programs related to children's access to care.

Jeanne Heiple, MD, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Preschool Rotation; Supervisor; Teacher.
Child psychiatry consultation in the preschool setting; early childhood development.

Albert A. Hyman, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Supervisor; Consultant, Diagnostic Evaluation Team.
Psychotherapy; psychoanalysis; psychopharmacology.

Jenni Jenks, MD
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Supervisor. Teacher.
Use of boxing as technique in group therapy.

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

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

Melissa Lopez-Larson, MD
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School.

Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Supervising Psychologist; Co-teacher, Infancy and Parenting.
Trauma and social stressors on parent-child relationships over time and the effects of attachment-oriented parenting supports in therapeutic interventions.

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

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

Sherry Moss, MA
Associate in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Supervisor, Family Service Clinic, Middlesex Probate Court; Co-teacher, Forensics seminar.
Divorce research, including the wellbeing of children after divorce; attachment issues.

Anna Ornstein, MD
Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Psychoanalytic theory seminar leader.
Psychoanalysis. Parenting.

Christopher Pagano, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Psychologist, Child Assessment Unit. Coordinator, Child Assessment Unit. Psychology Training. Trauma and neglect with a focus on boys and men; fathering issues.

Ava Bry Penman, MS
Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Supervisor; Teacher.
Growth, development, and treatment of young children and their families.

Adele Pressman, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Supervisor; Teacher, Preschool and Group Therapy Seminars.
Group psychotherapy; preschool development; school consultation.

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

Debra S. Rosenblum, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Child Psychiatrist, Outpatient Services.
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 Psychotherapy (core HMS seminar); Supervisor; Consultant, Inpatient Team.
Responses to traumatizing childhood events.

Lauren Shin, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Inpatient Child Psychiatrist, Child Assessment Unit.
Side effects of neuroleptics in children and adolescents.

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

Frederick Stoddard, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Director, C-L Rotation at Shriners Burns Hospital.
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.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy in children and adolescents.

Nandini Talwar, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Attending Psychiatrist, Systems Consultation to State Agencies Rotation.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth; integration of mental health services with pediatric practices; major mental illness in children and adolescents.

Ulrick Vieux Jr., DO, MS
Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Staff Psychiatrist, Child/Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic/Community School Based Services.
Trauma, sports, and primary care psychiatry with an emphasis in adolescent development.

Susan Walker, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Staff Child Psychiatrist, Cambridge Health Alliance ambulatory services. Psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

Heidi Webster, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Attachment and depression, childhood anxiety and behavioral medicine, integrative treatment of children and adolescents.

Elizabeth Weidmer-Mikhail, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Supervisor; Attending, Child Assessment Unit.
Cross-cultural issues; childhood psychosis; autism spectrum disorders.

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

Robert G. Ziegler, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Director, Community Relations; Diagnostic Team Leader; Supervisor; Teacher, 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.