Mood Disorders Related Content

Staff Profile: Stephanie Collier, MD, MPH

Stephanie Collier, MD, MPH, is the director of education in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and a staff psychiatrist in the Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Services at McLean Hospital. Dr. Collier is interested in the interface of medicine and psychiatry and has completed fellowship training in...

Staff Profile: Noelle Rubel, APRN, BC

Noelle Rubel, APRN, BC, has been working in the Adult Outpatient Clinic at McLean Hospital as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist for the past 25 years. She provides both medication management and psychotherapy services to a wide array of individuals. Her patients currently range in age from 18...

Staff Profile: Loretta Givens, MS, MSN, PCNS, BC

Loretta Givens, MS, MSN, PCNS, BC is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist in McLean’s LEADER Outpatient Clinic and at Pentucket Medical Associates. She is currently providing medication management to adults with psychiatric illness in a primary care setting as well as working with first...

Staff Profile: Marni Chanoff, MD

Marni Chanoff, MD, is an integrative psychiatrist combining Western psychiatry practices, Eastern approaches, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, nutritional psychiatry, and culinary and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Chanoff founded and co-leads the integrative wellness group at McLean OnTrack. She is...

Staff Profile: Jennifer R. Fanning, PhD

Jennifer R. Fanning, PhD, is a clinical psychologist conducting patient-oriented research on biological, psychological, and social aspects of interpersonal aggressive behavior in adults. Dr. Fanning’s current research, which is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Brain...

Staff Profile: Vanessa M. Cuthbert, MSW, LICSW

Vanessa M. Cuthbert, MSW, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in McLean’s Adult Outpatient Services. She currently works as an outpatient therapist in the LEADER (Law Enforcement, Active Duty, and Emergency Responder) program, where she provides individual and group therapy. Previously, she worked as...

Staff Profile: Omotola T’Sarumi, MD

Omotola T’Sarumi, MD, is a psychiatrist in charge in McLean Hospital’s Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. T’Sarumi completed her medical degree at Xavier University School of Medicine and is fellowship-trained in addiction psychiatry. In her current role, Dr. T’Sarumi manages patients...

Staff Profile: Meghan H. Bowsher, LICSW

Meghan H. Bowsher, LICSW, worked as a clinical team manager at the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program at McLean Hospital since 2016. She is now clinical team manager for the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program. Ms. Bowsher provides individual, family, and group therapy to...

Staff Profile: Daniel Epelbaum, MD

Daniel Epelbaum, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist with extensive clinical experience across the continuum of care, including outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial hospital, residential, emergency, and inpatient psychiatry treatment programs. He is medical director of McLean’s Ambulatory...

Staff Profile: Caroline S. Bader, MD

Caroline S. Bader, MD, is an outpatient geriatric psychiatrist specializing in the complex needs of older adults. She is the associate medical director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Services at McLean and see patients within the clinic. She serves in a teaching and supervisory role to...

Staff Profile: Susan Schneiders, LICSW

Susan Schneiders, LICSW, graduated from Boston University School of Social Work in 1995. She has over 20 years experience in the mental health field, working with diverse populations in a variety of settings, including inpatient, school systems, colleges, residential, and outpatient treatment. Ms...

Staff Profile: Elizabeth Tomlinson, MD

Elizabeth Tomlinson, MD, is an outpatient child psychiatrist with 30 years experience in community mental health. She is presently working in the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, the School Consultation Program, and doing evaluations in the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic for pediatricians and...

Staff Profile: Susan Cullaty-Purvis, DNP, PMHNP-BC

Susan Cullaty-Purvis, DNP, PMHNP-BC, is a nurse practitioner specializing in the treatment of psychosis and mood disorders. Currently she is a staff nurse practitioner in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Outpatient Clinic, part of McLean Hospital’s Adult Outpatient Services.

Staff Profile: Alyssa Solomon, LICSW

Alyssa Solomon, LICSW, received her BA in psychology from Westfield State University and her master’s degree in social work from Boston College. Following graduate school, she completed an internship at Wayside Youth and Family Support Network as an intensive care coordinator through the Children’s...

Staff Profile: Byron Garcia, MD

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...

Staff Profile: Alexis Freedberg, MD

Alexis Freedberg, MD, is a geriatric psychiatrist specializing in the complex medical and behavioral needs of older adults. Prior to coming to McLean, she oversaw clinical training as core psychiatry faculty at Cambridge Health Alliance, was an associate professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University...

Staff Profile: Senna Georges, LICSW

Senna Georges, LICSW, is a clinical social worker and team manager at the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program on McLean’s Belmont campus. She provides individual, family, and group therapy to adolescents in the program, in addition to performing case management tasks. Ms. Georges has...

Staff Profile: Daniel G. Dillon, PhD

Daniel G. Dillon, PhD, was trained in human neuroscience at Duke University, where he studied learning and memory under the guidance of Dr. Kevin LaBar. As a post-doctoral fellow working with Dr. Diego Pizzagalli at Harvard University, Dr. Dillon investigated brain systems implicated in anhedonia, a...

Staff Profile: Bryan Pridgen, MD

Bryan Pridgen, MD, is the medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Pridgen also supervises and teaches residents in the Massachusetts General...

Staff Profile: Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD

Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD, is director of the Laboratory for Translational and Affective Neuroscience at McLean Hospital and is a senior lecturer of psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School. He was the founding director of the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research at McLean and...