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title: "Electives"
url: https://mghmclean.org/html/electives_frameset.htm
description: "The educational opportunities for trainees are truly phenomenal. Below are listed some of the many elective training seminars and clinical rotations to the MGH'/McLean resident."
published: 2026-08-10
updated: 2026-08-10
---

# Electives

Published 2026-08-10

PART 1 / CH 5

The educational opportunities for trainees are truly phenomenal. Below are listed some of the many elective training seminars and clinical rotations to the MGH'/McLean resident.

**Adoption Studies Program***Dr. Linda Forsythe*

**Anxiety Disorders Program***Dr. Mark Pollak*

**Acute Psychiatry Service***Dr. Kathy Sanders and staff*

**Alcohol & Drug Abuse Treatment Program***Dr. Roger Weiss*

**Behavioral Medicine Unit***Dr. David Ahern and staff*

**Behavioral Medicine Unit of the
 Cardiovascular Health Center***Dr. Andrew Littman*

**Behavior Therapy Unit***Dr. Michael Otto and staff*

**Biostatistics Unit***Dr. Cary Savage*

**Bipolar & Psychotic Disorders Program***Drs Ross Baldessarini and Peter Choras*

**Bipolar Clinical Research Program***Dr. Gary Sachs and staff*

**Center for Psychoanalytic Studies***Dr. Anne Alonso and staff*

**Charlestown Neuroscience Research Center***Dr. Scott Rauch*

**Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program***Dr. Michael Jellinek and staff*

**Cingulotomy Committee***Dr. Ned Cassem*

**Child & Adolescent Inpatient Program***Dr. Mona Bennett*

**Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit***Dr. Jerrold Rosenbaum and staff*

**Clinical Evaluation Center***Dr. Trude Kleinschmidt*

**Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program***Drs. Michael Otto, Stephen McDermott and staff*

**Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Research Program***Dr. Lisa Najavits*

**Cognitive Neuroscience Program***Drs. Martha Shenton and Dean Salisbury*

**Community Psychiatry Programs***Dr. Nancy McDonnell*

**Consultation Service***Dr. Ted Stern*

**Couples Therapy Program***Dr. Anne Fishel*

**Depression & Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy***Dr. Edye Geringer*

**Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program***Dr. Martin H. Teicher and Ann Polcari, RN*

**Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology Program***Dr. Gil G. Noam*

**Dissociative Disorders & Trauma Program***Dr. James Chu*

**Eating Disorders Unit***Dr. David Herzog and staff*

**Family Therapy Program***Dr. Lois Slovik*

**General Psychiatry Outpatient Department***Dr. Jerrold Rosenbaum and staff*

**Geriatric Program***Lloyd Sederer, M.D.*

**Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic***Dr. Ken Nobel and staff*

**Geriatric Psychiatry Research Program***Drs. Lloyd Sederer, Florence Lai, and Ladislav Volicer*

**Inpatient Forensic Evaluation Service***Dr. Gary Belkin and staff*

**Blake 11 Inpatient Unit- Dr. John Matthews**Erich Lindemann Adult Inpatient Unit - Dr. Gary Belkin

**Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development***Drs. Mary Zanarini and Frances Frankenburg*

**Law and Psychiatry Service***Dr. Ronald Schouten*

**Mailman Laboratories for Psychiatry Research***Dr. Ross Baldessarini and staff -*

**Behavioral Genetic Laboratory***Dr. William Carlezon*

**Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory***Dr. Vadim Bolshakov*

**Clinical and Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory***Drs. Bruce M. Cohen and David J. Ennulat*

**Developmental Psychopharmacology Laboratory***Dr. Martin H. Teicher*

**Genetics Laboratory***Dr. Dennis K. Kinney*

**Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center***Dr. Francine M. Benes and Stephen L. Vincent*

**Molecular Neurogenetics Laboratory***Dr. Rachael A. Neve*

**Neuropharmacology Laboratory***Dr. Ross Baldessarini*

**Neuroregeneration Laboratory***Dr. Ole Isacson*

**Psychology Research Laboratory***Drs. Philip S. Holtzman, Deborah Levy and Steven W. Matthysse*

**Structural Neuroscience Laboratory***Drs. Francine M. Benes and Sabrina Berretta*

**Managed Care Physician Review Committee***Dr. Jeff Weilburg*

## Brain Imaging Center - McLean

**Electroconvulsive Therapy Internal Medicine and Primary Care Neurology The Sleep Health Center McLean Partial Hospital/Residential McLean Adult Outpatient Services Partial Hospitalization and Residential Treatment Center Eating Disorders Partial Hospital and Residential Program MGH Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Institute Adult Developmental Disability Partial Hospital Program**

**MGH Addiction Service***Dr. Martha Kane and staff*

**Addiction Research Program** *Dr. David Gastfriend and staff*

**MGH Neurology Service***Drs. Ann Young and Walter Koroshetz and staff*

**Mood Disorders Program***Dr. Maurizio Fava and staff*

**Neuroimaging Research program***Dr. Scott Rauch and staff*

**Neuropsychology-Geriatric Research***Drs. Marilyn Alpert, William Falk, Michael Jenike and staff*

**Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic***Drs. Michael Jenike and Research Unit staff*

**Optimum Care Committee***Dr. Ned Cassem*

**Outcomes Research***Drs. Barbara Dickey and Susan Eisen*

**Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research***Dr. Joseph Biederman and staff*

**Perinatal Psychiatry Clinical Research Program***Dr. Lee Cohen*

**Personality and Psychosocial Research Programs***Dr. John G. Gunderson*

**Primary Care Psychiatry Service**(outpatient evaluations in the Medicine outpatient department)
 *Drs. Carol Wool and Edye Geringer*

**Psychiatric Aspects of Burns***Dr. Frederick Stoddard and staff*

**Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service***Dr. Theodore Stern*

**Psychiatric Disorders in Children***Dr. Michael Jellinek and staff*

**Psychology Testing Center***Dr. Dennis Norman*

**Psychiatric Epidemiology***Dr. Jane Murphy*

**Psychoimmunology Unit***Drs. Scott Wilson, Owen Surman and staff*

**Psychopharmacology Research Program***Dr. Jonathan O. Cole*

**Psychotherapy Research***Dr. Ray Levy and staff*

## Self-psychology Seminar

**Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Seminar Group Therapy Seminar Couples Therapy Seminar Family and Systems Theory Seminar The Short Term Therapies Seminar Rehabilitation Psychiatry Seminar Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Psychiatry Staff**

**Research in Psychiatric Training and Education***Dr. Eugene Beresin and staff*

**Robert B. Andrews Unit**(neuropsychiatric evaluation and treatment of AIDS patients)
 *Dr. Jonathan Worth*

**Schizophrenia Research Unit***Dr. Donald Goff*

**Somatic Therapies Consultation Service (ECT)***Dr. Charles Welch*

**Transplantation Psychiatry***Dr. Owen Surman*

**Writing Seminar***Dr. Theodore Stern and Eleanor Hackett*