Department of Psychiatry
Executive Committee
Douglas Ziedonis, MD, MPH, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD, Director, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute; Director, Translational Research, Department of Psychiatry
Denise Barrett, Executive Assistant to the Chair
Sheldon Benjamin, MD, Director, Psychiatry Residency Training; Director, Neuropsychiatry
Alan Brown, MD, Vice Chair, Adult Psychiatry Clinical Services
Carol DeCourcey, MBA, Academic Administrator
Deborah Ekstrom, Chief Executive Officer, Community HealthLink, Inc.
Jean Frazier, MD, Vice Chair, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Carl Fulwiler, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Acting Director, Center for Mental Health Services Research
Jeffrey Geller, MD, MPH, Director, Public Sector Psychiatry
Diane George, Assistant to the Senior Director
Thomas Grisso, PhD, Director, Law and Psychiatry Program; Director of Psychology
Marie Hobart, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Community HealthLink, Inc.
Jean King, PhD, Director, Center for Comparative Neuroimaging; Vice Chair of Psychiatry Research
Charles Lidz, PhD, Research Professor of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research
Caroline McGrath, RN, BSN, Executive Director, UMass Adolescent Programs
Peter Metz, MD, Training Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Christina Nesbeda, MA, Psychiatry Academic Research Administrator
William O'Brien, MSW, Executive Director, UMass Memorial Behavioral Health System
Anthony Rothschild, MD, Director, Center for Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment
Jane Coken Ryan, MBA, Senior Director, Department of Psychiatry
David Smelson, PsyD, Vice Chair, Psychiatry Clinical Research
Ana Wolanin, RN, Director, Adult Psychiatric Services
Jennifer Wu, PhD, Associate Director of Communications, Continuing Medical Education and Global Initiatives
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University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Worcester MA 01655