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Gary S Sachs MD
Gary S. Sachs is the founder and director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard
Medical School. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the University
of Maryland Medical School, he completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. His areas of academic interest include psychopharmacology, bipolar mood disorder, and development of practice guidelines for the treatment of bipolar mood disorder.
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Andrew A Nierenberg MD
Dr. Andrew Nierenberg graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NewYork. He did his residency in psychiatry at New York University/Bellevue Hospital in New York City, where he became a chief resident, and then went on as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University to study clinical epidemiology. He continued his trek north to join the faculty at Harvard, and then to direct the Affective Disorders Outpatient Unit at McLean Hospital. Dr. Nierenberg then joined the Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1992 where he is currently Associate Director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program, Medical Director of the Bipolar Programs, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His primary interests are treatment resistant depression, management of antidepressant side effects, the longitudinal course of affective disorders, and pharmacoepidemiology.
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Michael J Ostacher MD, MPH
Michael J. Ostacher, MD, MPH trained in Adult Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School at The Cambridge Hospital, and completed fellowships in Public Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry. He graduated with Honors in the Department of Letters from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed a Masters in Public Health in Health Care Management at the Harvard University School of Public Health. He is certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry. His major research interest is bipolar disorder and comorbid substance abuse. He is currently studying the role of antidepressants in rapid cycling and is an investigator in a study of the burden on caregivers of people with bipolar disorder. He is the principal U.S. investigator for BALANCE, a multinational study of maintenance treatments for bipolar disorder run by Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
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Roy Perlis MD
Roy Perlis, MD studied neuroscience at Brown University and earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School . He completed an internship in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital serving as Chief Resident in Psychopharmacology. He is currently a staff psychiatrist at the Bipolar Program and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. His interests include psychiatric genetics and treatment-refractory mood disorders.
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Dan Iosifescu MD
Dan Iosifescu is a staff psychiatrist at the program and an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. After receiving his M.D. from the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, he completed an internal medicine internship and a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, serving as Chief Resident in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. He then completed a fellowship in psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital. His interests include the neuroimaging, neuroendocrine and cognitive abnormalities in mood disorders, and their impact on clinical treatment.
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Astrid Desrosiers MD, MPH
Astrid Desrosiers, MD, MPH is an Instructor in Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School. She completed her training in Adult Psychiatry through the Harvard Medical School Consolidated Training Program: Harvard South Shore Training Program and Cambridge Hospital in 1995. She is a graduate of the State University of Haiti, School of Medicine and Pharmacy. She completed a Master in Public Health in Family and Community at the Harvard University School of Public Health. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Her major research interests include psychopharmacology, the role of psychosocial factors in the treatment of Mood Disorders, health disparities and the impact of Multicultural issues on patient care.
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