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Celebrating a Transformational Moment for McLean

Boston’s InterContinental Hotel shimmered with optimism on December 3, 2025, as friends, donors, staff, and McLean leadership came together to celebrate the culmination of the Hospital’s The Way Forward Campaign. After more than six years of vision, effort, and generosity, the campaign met and...

Endowing Our Faculty, Strengthening Our Mission

A little over a decade ago, McLean embarked on a significant effort to adopt a divisional structure and install nationally respected leaders to oversee seven key domains. Three of the divisions focus on diagnoses, including depression and anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, and substance use...

Brandon Unruh, MD, Receives the 2024 Jonathon O. Cole Award

Brandon Unruh, MD, medical director of the Gunderson Residence at McLean Hospital, recently received the prestigious 2024 Jonathan O. Cole Award. The annual award—established in 2006 thanks to a gift from the Fleetwing Charitable Foundation—honors Cole, a former McLean psychiatrist. He was widely...

Comedian, Actor, and Writer John Mulaney Accepts McLean Award

On Friday, November 3, more than 350 supporters and staff of McLean Hospital gathered at Boston’s Intercontinental Hotel for the 2023 Annual Dinner. After a three-year pause on the annual gathering, attendees delighted in the opportunity to reconnect with friends, both old and new, and to celebrate...

Video: Lecture – The Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators 2023

Honoring Andrea M. Cataldo, PhD, and Antonia V. Seligowski, PhD, McLean Hospital – The Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators Each year, McLean Hospital recognizes young researchers with the Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators. The honor is named for one of the hospital’s most...

Nathaniel G. Harnett, PhD, Receives PFDI Faculty Fellowship

McLean Hospital’s Nathaniel G. Harnett, PhD, is the recipient of the 2022 Harvard Catalyst Program for Diversity Inclusion (PFDI) Faculty Fellowship. Harnett is an assistant neuroscientist at McLean and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. The PFDI program is a two-year...

McLean Alumna Rebecca W. Brendel Takes Office as APA President

Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, a graduate of the MGH/McLean Hospital Adult Residency Training Program, began her term as president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting in May. “Rebecca is an exceptionally thoughtful and highly respected leader whose expertise and...

McLean Volunteers Receive HMS Dean’s Community Service Award

The McLean Hospital collaboration with the Outreach Program with Indian Health Service, and with the mental health providers who volunteered their services at the Northern Navajo Medical Center (NNMC) in Shiprock, New Mexico during the peak of the pandemic, were awarded the 2022 Harvard Medical...

Dr. Ann Shinn Receives McMahon Mentoring Award

Ann K. Shinn, MD, MPH, is the 2022 recipient of the Thomas A. McMahon Mentoring Award from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Shinn is the director of clinical research for McLean Hospital’s Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program. The McMahon Award was...

Susan M. Szulewski, MD, Named 2022 Recipient of the Jonathon O. Cole Award

Susan M. Szulewski, MD, McLean’s associate chief medical officer and medical director of the Clinical Evaluation Center, was recently awarded the prestigious 2022 Jonathan O. Cole Award. The annual award—established in 2006, thanks to a gift from the Fleetwing Charitable Foundation—honors Dr. Cole...

Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors List Includes Four From McLean

Four McLean Hospital physicians have been named among Boston Magazine’s “Top Doctors in the Boston Area” for 2022. The honorees were included in the magazine’s February edition and Top Docs 2022 list online. The McLean physicians are: Roger D. Weiss, MD, chief, Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and...

Dr. Shelly Greenfield Receives Stuart Hauser Mentorship Award

Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH, McLean Hospital’s chief academic officer, was one of two Harvard Medical School faculty members selected to receive the 2022 Stuart T. Hauser, MD, PhD Mentorship Award in Psychiatry. The award recognizes faculty members for outstanding mentorship of medical students...

2021 McLean Nursing Awards Recipients Announced

Recipients of the Professional Nursing Advancement Program (PNAP), the Margaret C. Tibbetts Award, and the Julia Altschule Award were presented during the 2021 Fall Nursing Conference, held on Friday, December 3. Professional Nursing Advancement Program Presented by PNAP co-chairs Nicole Visaggio...