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New Smartphone App Helps During Mental Health Treatment Transition

The transition out of an inpatient psychiatric setting is never easy—for the patient or the clinician. And the challenge escalates after the day program ends and the patient returns home. Now, clinicians at McLean Hospital’s Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program (BHP), a day program that...

Summit Envisions Future of Technology in Psychiatry

Technology is ubiquitous. Children have smartphones, octogenarians are savvy iPad users, and nearly everyone tracks steps and calories with wearables. It is no surprise that the field of psychiatry is forging a path toward using technology to revolutionize the way mental illnesses are diagnosed and...

An Epic Leap Into the Future of Health Care

With more than a dozen clinical, technical, and administrative staff looking on from a command center atop Belmont Hill, at 5am on June 24, 2017, McLean Hospital took a giant leap into the future of health care as it flipped the switch and officially “went live” with an electronic health record (EHR...

McLean’s Integrated Group Therapy App Wins Innovation Challenge

A team from McLean Hospital won this year’s Partners Connected Health Innovation Challenge (CHIC) for a proposal to create a digital platform that brings integrated group therapy (IGT) to individuals with co-occurring mood disorders and addiction to drugs or alcohol. The team, which competed against...

Staff Profile: Nicole M. Benson, MD

Nicole M. Benson, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and clinical informaticist at McLean Hospital. Dr. Benson’s research uses data science and clinical informatics to study the ways patients access and receive mental health care in order to identify disparities in clinical outcomes. She is...

Staff Profile: Rachel Sava, PhD

Rachel Sava, PhD, is the program director for the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry. She received her BA from Harvard University and PhD from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, both in the field of neuroscience. Dr. Sava conducted her PhD studying the mechanisms underlying...

Staff Profile: Justin T. Baker, MD, PhD

Justin T. Baker, MD, PhD, is the scientific director of the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry (ITP) and director of the Laboratory for Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics at McLean Hospital. He is also an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Baker’s...

Staff Profile: Dawn E. Sugarman, PhD

Dawn E. Sugarman, PhD, is a research psychologist in the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction at McLean Hospital. Dr. Sugarman focuses her research and clinical work on the treatment of addictive behaviors. She is particularly interested in gender-specific treatment for substance use disorders...

Staff Profile: Benjamin C. Silverman, MD

Benjamin C. Silverman, MD, is the senior IRB chair at Mass General Brigham. He is additionally director of ethics for the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, chair of the Mass General Brigham Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (ESCRO) Committee, and at Harvard Medical School, he...

Staff Profile: Shifali Singh, PhD

Shifali Singh, PhD, is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist and director of the Digital Neuropsychology and Brain Health Laboratory within the Advanced Bioinformatics and Computational Discovery Hub and Institute for Technology in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. Her clinical research focuses on...

Staff Profile: Scott L. Rauch, MD

Scott L. Rauch, MD, is currently the inaugural Trustees’ Endowed Chair for Innovation in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital and a professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also the immediate past [emeritus] president, psychiatrist in chief, and Rose-Marie & Eijk van Otterloo Chair of...

McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry

The McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry (ITP) was founded in 2016 to advance psychiatric research and practice through innovations in digital health technology and informatics. To accomplish these goals, we work with global leaders in academia, industry, and healthcare to: Innovate new...

Staff Profile: Ipsit Vahia, MD

Ipsit Vahia, MD, is a geriatric psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher. He is the chief of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and the Corrigan-Minehan Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He is also director of the Technology and Aging Laboratory. His research focuses on the use of...