About Usman Ghumman, MBBS
Dr. Usman Ghumman is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Alan and Lorraine Bressler Clinical and Research Program for Autism Spectrum Disorder at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Ghumman trained in General Psychiatry at the Texas Tech University of Health Science Center at El Paso, and subsequently completed his Fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He received training in ECT and TMS.
Dr. Ghumman has been the recipient of the prestigious Beatrix A. Hamburg Award through the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the Texas Tech University Health Science Center Resident Research Award, and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Data Blitz Award.
Dr. Ghumman's clinical and research interest is in autism spectrum disorder, with a particular focus on comorbid major depression disorder. In addition to providing outpatient care to psychiatrically referred populations of all ages with Autism, Dr. Ghumman is working in clinical research in Autism population with psychopathologies.
Dr. Ghumman shares research updates and expertise in Autism by offering lectures and supervision to trainees, and by organizing educational programs for mental health providers and for families of individuals with Autism.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Treats:
- Adult & Pediatrics
Languages:
- Punjabi, Urdu
Locations
Mass General Psychiatry
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-5600
Mass General Psychiatry: Alan & Lorraine Bressler Clinical and Research Program for Autism Spectrum Disorders
55 Fruit St.
Suite 625
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-7899
Medical Education
- MBBS, FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry
- Residency, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
- Fellowship, Johns Hopkins Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Carelon Behavioral Health
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Evernorth Behavioral Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Behavioral Health
- Wellpoint
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Publications
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Selected publications:
- Ghumman, Usman, Maura Disalvo, Akul Srinivasan, Mai Uchida, Tolga Atilla Ceranoglu, Janet Wozniak, and Gagan Joshi. "Suicidality and Sleep Disturbance in Youth With ASD and Depression." In AACAP's 2024 Annual Meeting. AACAP, 2024
- Ghumman, Usman, Maura Disalvo, Akul Srinivasan, Mai Uchida, Tolga Atilla Ceranoglu, Janet Wozniak, and Gagan Joshi. "Examining the Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Comorbid ASD and MDD in Intellectually Intact Youth: A Comparative Study." In AACAP's 2024 Annual Meeting. AACAP, 2024
- Nami, M., Gadad, B.S., Chong, L., Ghumman, U., Misra, A., Gadad, S.S., Kumar, D., Perry, G., Abraham, S.J. and Rao, K.S., 2020. The interrelation of neurological and psychological symptoms of COVID-19: Risks and remedies. Journal of clinical medicine, 9 (8), p.2624
- Vargas-Medrano, J., Diaz-Pacheco, V., Castaneda, C., Miranda-Arango, M., Longhurst, M.O., Martin, S.L., Ghumman, U., Mangadu, T., Chheda, S., Thompson, P.M. and Gadad, B.S., 2020. Psychological and neurobiological aspects of suicide in adolescents: Current outlooks. Brain, behavior, & immunity-health, 7, p.100124
- Ghumman, Usman Zaheer, Marco Grados, Masoud Salehi, and Hasti Hadizadeh. "A Quantitative Trait Loci Linkage Study of Anxiety Leads to TLL1, a Gene Sensitive to Stress Hormones." In AACAP/CACAP 2022 Annual Meeting. AACAP, 2022
- Ghumman, U., Conrad, C., Ghumman, M.Z. and Alvarado, C., 2020, October. Review of randomized controlled trials studying the benefits of equine-assisted activities and therapy in children with autism spectrum disorder. In 2020 Virtual Meeting. AACAP