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Jessica Margolis, LICSW, MPH, is the lead clinical social worker on the Short Term Unit at McLean Hospital. She interned at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital and worked on the Short Term Unit South before moving into her current role. Ms. Margolis is also a trainee in the adult...

Sandra Nasabzadeh, LICSW, has worked in the field of social work for ten years in Massachusetts, Washington DC, and Maryland. She began her career providing in-home family therapy and mentoring to families across the south shore of Massachusetts. As part of her graduate program, she completed...

Allison R. Foilb, PhD, focuses her research at the intersection of stress and learning. She began her research while an undergraduate at Barnard College where she studied the development of the hormonal stress response. As a graduate student at Boston College, Dr. Foilb studied the neural mechanisms...

Michael Grocki, MA, BSN, is the nurse director of the Short Term Unit, where he supervises the inpatient nursing care of adults with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, including mood disorders. He specializes in the nursing care of adults with depression, anxiety, and personality disorders in an...

Ellen S. Gillespie, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in the Department of Social Work at McLean Hospital. She completed a one year fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 2016 and is currently a student in the...

Sarah Tarbell Kazmouski, MSW, LICSW, earned a BA in Psychology from Boston University and then went on to New York University’s School of Social work to earn her MSW. She previously held the position of senior clinical team manager at McLean Hospital’s Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program and...

Leslie J. Shapiro, LICSW, has been treating OCD and related disorders since 1989. Ms. Shapiro was awarded the first interdisciplinary career development research grant at McLean Hospital. The grant supported her pilot project on conscience related factors in OCD. She continues this research at the...

Byron Garcia, MD, is a board-certified adult and child psychiatrist who specializes in the care of adolescents and adults with psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, and anxiety disorders. As the medical director at McLean SouthEast Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Adult...

Isabelle M. Rosso is the director of the Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders Laboratory which studies neurobiological phenotypes of emotional disorders, and relates them to behavioral and clinical phenotypes. Psychiatric research has reached an exciting juncture where the neuroscience knowledge...

Dr. Bolshakov received his PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and performed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University under the mentorship of Dr. Steven Siegelbaum. He joined McLean Hospital in 1999 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor at...

Elif Engin, PhD, grew up in Ankara, Turkey, and earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. She completed her doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Dallas Treit in Edmonton, Alberta, and was awarded a PhD Thesis Award from the Canadian...

Mona Potter, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She has played multiple roles over the course of her time at McLean. During her previous role as the medical director of McLean’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Services, Dr. Potter was integral in building the McLean Anxiety...

Brian P. Brennan, MD, MMSc, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is the medical director of the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute at McLean Hospital—an intensive residential treatment facility for patients with severe OCD and related disorders. He is also the...

Courtney Beard, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Cognition and Affect Research and Education (CARE) Laboratory at McLean Hospital. Dr. Beard’s research aims to delineate cognitive and affective mechanisms...

Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD, ABPP, is the director of the International Dissemination of Evidence-Based Approaches (IDEA) Laboratory at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was previously co-director of psychology...

Zachary B. Millman, PhD, is the director of research for the Support, Treatment, and Resilience (STAR) Program at McLean Hospital. He is also an assistant psychologist at McLean and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. At STAR, Dr. Millman...

Alessandro S. De Nadai, PhD, is a translational data scientist who focuses on improving pediatric mental health outcomes. He and his team take new findings in computer science, mathematics, and statistics and translate them into clinically actionable information. He has applied new developments in...

Manuel Kuhn, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Laboratory for Translational and Affective Neuroscience, directed by Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD. Dr. Kuhn completed his doctoral degree at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, where he examined the neurobiological...

Michaela B. Swee, PhD, ABPP, is the director of clinical training at the Trauma Continuum of Care at the Hill Center and an investigator in the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program, both at McLean Hospital. She is an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard...