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During the Nurses Day Conference 2021, held online on May 7, 2021, Nicole Visaggio, RN, and Teresa Henderson, BSN, RN, recognized recent recipients of McLean’s Professional Nursing Advancement Program (PNAP). Recipients were presented in Tier 1 and Tier 2. As part of the application process for Tier...

McLean Hospital is honored to announce that U.S News & World Report has ranked McLean #2 for psychiatry among all hospitals in the country, with Johns Hopkins coming in at #1 and Mass General Hospital at #3. With this year’s results, McLean celebrates its 19th consecutive year as the #1 ranked...

McLean Hospital is the recipient of the 2020 Virtual All-Inclusive Award in the category of Public Health Champion Award—Organization from Color Magazine. The award, which was presented during an online ceremony held on December 10, recognized McLean for “making outstanding strides to protect and...

Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, has been elected as the next president-elect of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), and Bill Carlezon, PhD, has been elected as an ACNP council member. Ressler and Carlezon will commence their new ACNP roles in 2022. Founded in 1961, the ACNP is an...

A team of research collaborators at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging received the Pierre Janet Award from the International Society of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). This award is given to honor the best clinical...

Sherry R. Winternitz, MD, has received the 2021 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation in honor of her outstanding clinical contributions to the treatment of dissociative disorders. Story Highlights Winternitz has served as clinical director...

Christian A. Webb, PhD, received the 2021 Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). Webb, who is the director of McLean’s Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth (TEDY)...

On April 21, McLean’s Scott E. Lukas, PhD, received the Stuart T. Hauser, MD, PhD, Mentorship Award in Psychiatry from Harvard Medical School (HMS). Presented annually, the award is given to an HMS faculty member “for outstanding sustained mentorship of medical students, residents, fellows, and...

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) and its Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning named Fernando Rodriguez-Villa, MD, as a recipient of the 2020‐2021 Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD, Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education. Awarded each year, the certificate...

A placard in the office of Joseph Stoklosa, MD, reads, “Qui docet discit”: He or she who teaches learns. As a dedicated educator who just won the 2021 Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award for Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, Stoklosa embodies the truth of this proverb. Since 2004, the award has...

Amy C. Janes, PhD, director of the Functional Integration of Addiction Research Laboratory at the McLean Imaging Center, was elected president of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD). An independent organization of more than 1,000 members, the CPDD works to advance scientific approaches...

The New England Patriots and the Kraft family have invited a select group of vaccinated health care heroes from Mass General Brigham to be their guests at Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday, February 7. Jason Pereira, head of Security at McLean Hospital, will be representing our hospital at...

It was 1979, and Michael Hollander, PhD, was a post-doctoral fellow at McLean’s adolescent day service when he overheard two girls talking about how they regularly burned their arms with lighters and red-hot coins. He was curious and joined the conversation. “What surprised me was that they didn’t...

During McLean’s Fall 2020 Nursing Conference on November 3, two annual awards were presented to deserving nurses from the McLean community. This year’s Margaret C. Tibbetts Award went to Florence Morin, RN, a clinical coordinator at the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Inpatient Program. The 2020...

McLean Hospital visiting scientist Suzanne Haber, PhD, is the recipient of the Gold Medal Award for 2020 from the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP). The group recognized Haber for her many contributions to the study of neural networks that inform incentive learning and decision-making. “It’s a...

During a virtual ceremony on August 7, McLean Hospital received the Excellence in Group Practice Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). The annual award “recognizes outstanding contributions to the practice of group psychotherapy and/or other applied group interventions.” Cheri L...

McLean Hospital’s Amy C. Janes, PhD, was named as a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers who are starting their independent research careers and show...

The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) has presented McLean Hospital’s Bertha K. Madras, PhD, with its 2019 Innovator Award. Madras, the director of McLean’s Laboratory of Addiction Neurobiology, accepted the award on June 16, 2019, at CPDD’s 81st Annual Scientific Meeting in San Antonio...

McLean Hospital has once again been named one of the top hospitals in the United States. Announced today, U.S. News & World Report’s annual best hospitals survey ranks McLean second overall in the nation for psychiatry, making McLean America’s top-ranked freestanding psychiatric hospital for the...