Warren Building
55 Fruit Street
Boston,
MA
02114
Phone: 617-726-2984
Patients with medical and surgical illnesses frequently develop neuropsychiatric complications in addition to new issues related to their pre-existing psychiatric disorders. The Division of Psychiatry & Medicine sees approximately 9% of the 43,000 patients admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital each year, making it one of the busiest consultation services in the hospital.
Our specialized psychiatrists and psychologists are equipped to diagnose and treat patients with a wide variety of medical problems. Our clinical team provides many differing services, including:
The Division of Psychiatry & Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital provides specialized care for various types of patients through our variety of consultation services.
The Avery Weisman Psychiatric Consultation Service and the Resident Psychiatry Consultation Service trains residents from the Mass General/McLean Psychiatry Residency in four-month, half-time rotations during their PGY III year. A chief resident is chosen from the fourth year to serve on the consultation team. Our attendings conduct consultations in every part of the hospital with residents to provide state-of-the-art medical psychiatric care.
In addition, the Fellows Consultation Service educates three PGY V graduate psychiatrists each year. They receive a graduate school level course in clinical neuroscience along with intensive clinical training. Graduates of the fellowship have gone on to become leaders in medical psychiatry.
Felicia A. Smith, MD, Director
Theodore Stern MD, Director Emeritus
Scott Beach, MD
Christopher Celano, MD
Ana Ivkovic, MD
Nicholas Kontos, MD
Kavitha Kolappa, MD
Nadia Quijije, MD
Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD
John Taylor, MD, MBA
Nicholas Kontos, MD, Director
John Taylor, MD, Co-Director
Gabrielle Chavez, Fellowship Coordinator
The Burn Consultation Service has both child and adolescent and adult components. We work closely with the psychiatry program at the renowned Shriner’s Hospital for Children burn care program and the Burn, Acute and Critical Care Program at Mass General. The Burn Consultation Service is an important buffer against staff burnout. This service continues the tradition of the Mass General psychiatrists who cared for the burn victims of the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire. We provide state-of-the-art care for burn victims.
Shriners Child Burn Hospital Consultation Service
Attila Ceranoglu, MD, Director
Adult Burn Psychiatry Consultation Service
Nadia Quijije, MD, Director
Sean Glass, MD
The Cardiovascular Health Service is staffed by psychiatrists with expertise in cardiac psychiatry. This service has developed an integrated program of behavioral health, which has benefited patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation at Mass General. This is especially important since mood disturbance can contribute to and exacerbate cardiac disease.
John Purcell, MD, Director
The Cox Psycho-Oncology Service is a leader in the area of depression and cancer. Our clinicians work closely with the Mass General Cancer Center's Breast Cancer Treatment Program, the Prostate Cancer Treatment Program, the Center for Gynecologic Oncology and the Neuro-Oncology (Brain Tumor) Treatment Program. These devoted psychiatrists work closely with patients and families who often are facing the loss experiences brought about by cancer.
Joseph Greer, PhD, Program Director
Donna Greenberg, MD, Education Director
Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD, Medical Director
Annah Abrams, MD, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
April Hirschberg, MD
Kelly Irwin, MD
Guy Maytal, MD
The Infectious Disease Consultation Service provides evaluation and treatment services to patients seen in the Infectious Disease Clinic, many of whom are diagnosed with HIV-AIDS.
Felicia A. Smith, MD, Director
Gregory Acampora, MD, Director
These psychiatrists in the Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service are skilled in helping young people meet the developmental challenges of illness. Among the many worthwhile initiatives of the team, there is the innovative Parenting at a Challenging Time (PACT) program, begun by Paula Rauch, MD. This Mass General Cancer Center Program provides parent guidance consultations to adults with cancer who seek assistance in helping their children cope with parental illness.
Eric Hazen, MD, Director
Elizabeth Pinsky, MD, Associate director
Annah Abrams, MD
Paula Rauch, MD
Lawrence Selter, MD
The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Behavioral and Mental Health Service has an experienced, dedicated staff of psychiatrists, psychologists and neuropsychologists. These clinicians specialize in the diagnosis and management of the emotional, cognitive and behavioral problems of patients requiring rehabilitation from illness and injuries.
Spaulding Charlestown:
Donna DiGioia, MD, Clinical director
Christopher Carter, PhD
Richard Goldberg, PhD
Nasser Karamouz, MD
Eric Leskowitz, MD, Spaulding Outpatient Center Medford
John Levine, MD, PhD, Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit
Spaulding Cambridge:
Olivia Zurek, MD
Jake Holzer, MD
The Transplant Consultation Service is comprised of several seasoned psychiatrists working on organ-specific teams. The service includes teams focused on working with recipients and donors of kidney, lung, heart and adult liver transplants. These transplant psychiatrists make essential contributions to both the transplant teams they serve and to the patients and families they treat.
Ana Ivkovic, MD, Director and Adult Liver, Kidney, Hand specialist
Laura Prager, MD, Lung
John Purcell, MD, Cardiac
Steven Schlozman, MD, Pediatric Liver, Kidney
The Trauma Consult-Liaison Service is involved in rounds with the multidisciplinary trauma team in the Emergency Medicine Department.
Nadia Quijije, MD, Director
Our specialized psychiatrists and psychologists are equipped to diagnose and treat patients with a wide variety of medical problems.
Jeff Huffman, MD, Research Director
Scott Beach, MD
Christopher Celano, MD
The Division of Psychiatry & Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital conducts a wide array of research projects. Our research portfolio includes the projected listed below.
The integration of patient care and clinical research has been a hallmark of the Department of Psychiatry for more than 30 years. Today, the department has the largest clinical research program in the hospital, with studies at the forefront of neuroscience, molecular biology and genetics.
