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Charles F. Moore, MD, completed his combined pediatric, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry residency at Tufts-Floating Hospital for Children. He has been medical director of the Boston Emergency Services Team, a psychiatry attending and medical director of Tufts-Floating...

Jacqueline A. Samson, PhD, is a clinical associate at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School. Her chief research interests involve understanding the biopsychosocial underpinnings of depressive illnesses...

Andrew M. Stromberg, MD, is the medical director of the McLean-Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program located at Franciscan Hospital for Children. He has been involved with the program since 1992. Dr. Stromberg works with the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Child and...

Poornima Kumar, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an assistant neuroscientist at McLean Hospital. Her research interests focus on investigating the mechanisms through which humans learn and process reinforcements (both rewards and punishments) and how these...

Emily L. Belleau, PhD, completed her doctoral studies in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under the mentorship of Christine Larson, PhD. After completing a clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Clinical Psychology Consortium, she joined the Laboratory for...

Munya Hayek, MD, is triple board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and pediatrics. She is the associate medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and serves as associate program director of the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent...

Karen Monroe, MD, has been the medical director of McLean Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic since 2004. She also serves as the child and adolescent psychiatrist for the 3East DBT Outpatient Clinic at McLean. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Monroe coordinates the Child Outpatient Rotation...

Agustin G. Yip, MD, PhD, is the clinical director for the Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders at McLean Hospital. Dr. Yip’s research interests include the optimal design, conduct, analysis, and cumulative synthesis of comparative effectiveness studies of neuromodulation in psychiatry.

Ying Cao, MD, MEng, practices personalized and integrative psychiatry guided by concepts from systems engineering, developmental and cross-cultural psychology, as well as evolving paradigms of psychiatry and general medicine. Her interests include traditional mind-body medicine, modern molecular and...

Arkadiy L. Maksimovskiy, PhD, investigates how mirth—the state that drives laughter—shapes memory and how it can be harnessed to improve mental health. In depression, negative experiences dominate memory while positive ones fade. He studies how inducing mirth can rebalance this pattern and restore...

Kristin McCarthy, MSW, LICSW, began her career working with individuals and families struggling with eating disorders. She developed an interest in providing individual and group therapy and family support for those in higher levels of care. Ms. McCarthy joined the McLean Hospital social work float...

Christine L. Picard, MSN, PMHCNS-BC, started her career at McLean Hospital in 1987 as a registered nurse on an inpatient unit. She continued her work with adolescent inpatients at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute while completing her advanced degree as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist. She...

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...

Hayley Parét, MSN, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Breaking the barriers of traditional nursing practice, Ms. Parét is one of the first nurse practitioners to become both an ECT and ketamine provider at McLean’s Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program. Ms...