Psychotic Disorders Related Content

Staff Profile: Mei-Hua Hall, PhD

Mei-Hua Hall, PhD, is the director of the Psychosis Neurobiology Laboratory at McLean Hospital and a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She has expertise in electrophysiology, psychiatric genetics, and cognitive neuroscience, along with a background in clinical psychology...

Staff Profile: Kirsten W. Bolton, LICSW

Since 2008, Kirsten W. Bolton, LICSW, has been working with patients and their families in McLean’s Division of Psychotic Disorders. A graduate of Simmons College, Ms. Bolton began her work at McLean as a clinical social worker in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Inpatient Program. Previously...

Staff Profile: Karen Slifka, RN, MS, CS

Karen Slifka, RN, MS, CS, is the nurse director of the Community Reintegration Unit. Ms. Slifka began her career at McLean in the child inpatient units and later moved into the child outpatient program in therapy, psychopharmacology, and research. She has been working in the Community Reintegration...

Staff Profile: Sabina Berretta, MD

Sabina Berretta, MD, began her research training under the mentorship of Dr. V. Perciavalle at University of Catania, Italy. In 1990, she joined the laboratory directed by Dr. A. M. Graybiel in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, working neural circuitry linking the motor cortex...

Staff Profile: William P. Carter, MD

Dr. Carter attended Brown University, graduating magna cum laude with an BS in psychology in 1985. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1989, before completing his residency in adult psychiatry at McLean Hospital in 1993. Staying on at McLean since residency, Dr. Carter has held...

Support, Treatment, and Resilience Program

The Support, Treatment, and Resilience (STAR) Program delivers high-quality outpatient care to teens and young adults ages 14-25 who are at risk of mental health conditions that can cause psychosis. The program offers psychosis risk assessment, individual therapy, medication management, and family...

Staff Profile: Rahel Bosson, MD

Rahel Bosson, MD, is a psychiatrist, the medical director of McLean’s Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), associate program director of the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, associate director of the MGH Center of Immigrant Health, and an instructor in psychiatry...

Staff Profile: Simon Desjardins, MD, MBA

Simon Desjardins, MD, MBA, is a psychiatrist at the McLean SouthEast at Oak Street Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Adult Inpatient Program and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He earned a medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed psychiatric...

Staff Profile: David Frederick, MD

David Frederick, MD, earned his medical degree from the Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. He serves as the medical director of McLean’s Appleton residential program, treating chronic psychotic and...

Staff Profile: Halide Bilge Turkozer, MD

Halide Bilge Turkozer, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also an investigator at McLean Hospital’s Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program. Her clinical interests include emerging serious mental illnesses in...

Staff Profile: Andrew J. Melaragno, MD

Andrew J. Melaragno, MD, is the medical director of the Community Reintegration Unit inpatient program within the Division of Psychotic Disorders. His current clinical interests include the treatment of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and related disorders, as well as the treatment of co-occurring...

Staff Profile: Beier Yao, PhD

Beier Yao, PhD, is a clinician-scientist in the Division of Psychotic Disorders. She has expertise in neuroimaging, electrophysiology, eye tracking, and psychophysics, with a background in clinical psychology, neuroscience, and statistical modeling. Dr. Yao uses a multimodal approach to study the...

Staff Profile: Brianna Richard, BSN, RN

Brianna Richard, BSN, RN, began her nursing career working in cardiology, transitioning into COVID-intensive care during the height of the pandemic. After months of travel nursing in the medical field, she transitioned into mental health nursing. Ms. Richard joined the clinical team at McLean’s...

Waverley Place

Waverley Place is a community-based support program that provides a recovery-oriented environment for adults facing mental health challenges. Our program supports adults who may experience changes in thinking and concentration, have difficulties with hearing, seeing, or sensing things that others...

Staff Profile: Hyun Jung Kim, MD

Hyun Jung Kim, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, specializing in psychosis-risk syndromes and early psychosis. After completing psychiatry residency at Duke University and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Kim joined Yale...

Staff Profile: Laura A. DiCola, MD, MSPH

Laura A. DiCola, MD, MSPH, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean OnTrack, a program for first episode psychosis, and the Clinical Evaluation Center. Dr. DiCola completed her medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and her psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts...

Staff Profile: Kathryn Eve Lewandowski, PhD

Kathryn Eve Lewandowski, PhD, is the director of clinical programming at McLean OnTrack TM and an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She also directs the psychotic disorders rotation of the APA-approved pre-doctoral psychology internship...

Staff Profile: Kelly Scanlon, LICSW

Kelly Scanlon, LICSW, is the program director at McLean Hospital’s Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT). Since 2014, Ms. Scanlon has worked as a licensed independent clinical social worker in various levels of care at McLean and has supervised junior social workers preparing for their...

Staff Profile: Dost Öngür, MD, PhD

A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Dr. Öngür has a background in neuroscience and clinical psychiatry. He is currently the chief of the Division of Psychotic Disorders, responsible for three inpatient units, a residential facility, a PACT team, two specialty outpatient clinics, and a community support...

Staff Profile: Rick Wolthusen, MD, MPP

Rick Wolthusen, MD, MPP, is a physician-scientist with a clinical interest in psychotic disorders and catatonia and a research interest in neuroscience and global mental health. Dr. Wolthusen has trained and practiced in various cultural and geographic settings, including Germany, the United States...