Hannah Brown, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Biography
Hannah Brown, MD is the Director of the Wellness and Recovery After Psychosis (WRAP) clinical and research programs, Vice Chair of Research of the Division of Psychiatry at BMC, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.
She earned her MD from Harvard Medical School, completed residency training in adult psychiatry, and completed a Fellowship in Schizophrenia at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a recipient of a 2013 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, the American Psychological Association Early Academic Career Award on Schizophrenia Research, and the 2014 Dupont-Warren Fellowship awarded through Harvard Department of Psychiatry.
She has served as principal investigator for multiple clinical and translational research studies across MGH and BMC. She has published over 30 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and invited commentaries on schizophrenia. She has mentored multiple medical students, residents, fellows, and early faculty members, including K award and other grant recipients. She is the recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Department of Psychiatry at BMC.
Other Positions
- Vice Chair of Research, Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center
Education
- Harvard Medical School, MD
- Barnard College, BA
Publications
- Published on 4/20/2023
Gouse BM, Schwarz AG, Gibbs JS, Weinberg JM, Yue H, Chava A, Brown HE. Demographic predictors of lack of current mental health treatment among university students with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Early Interv Psychiatry. 2023 Dec; 17(12):1207-1215. PMID: 37081818.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/20/2023
Gouse BM, Boliver EE, Oblath R, Camacho L, Brown HE. Cannabis use among patients presenting to the emergency department for psychosis: Associations with restraint use, medication administration, psychiatric hospitalization, and repeat visits. Psychiatry Res. 2023 May; 323:115151. PMID: 36934468.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/17/2023
Gouse BM, Boliver EE, Oblath R, Camacho L, Brown HE. Cannabis use among patients presenting to the emergency department for psychosis: Associations with restraint use, medication administration, psychiatric hospitalization, and repeat visits. Psychiatry Res. 2023 Mar 17; 323:115151. PMID: 36934468.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/17/2022
Brown H, Ongur D, Smurawska L, Valcourt S. Inpatient - Outpatient transitions in first episode psychosis care. Schizophr Res. 2022 Dec; 250:123-124. PMID: 36401993.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/1/2022
Gouse BM, Brown HE. Improving Outcomes in Schizophrenia-A Case for Initiation of Long-Acting Antipsychotics in Early-Phase Illness. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jul 01; 5(7):e2224172. PMID: 35900769.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/6/2022
Schor SH, Gibbs JS, Gouse BM, Brown HE. A call to action: Increased mortality from COVID-19 among individuals with schizophrenia calls for coordinated vaccination efforts. Schizophr Res. 2022 Aug; 246:63-64. PMID: 35716577.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/16/2022
Gibbs JS, Kriegsman S, Brown HE. Dismantling Racial Inequities in Early Psychosis Family Psychoeducation. Psychiatr Serv. 2022 Sep 01; 73(9):1065-1068. PMID: 35291816.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/8/2020
Tseng CJ, Gilbert TM, Catanese MC, Hightower BG, Peters AT, Parmar AJ, Kim M, Wang C, Roffman JL, Brown HE, Perlis RH, Zürcher NR, Hooker JM. In vivo human brain expression of histone deacetylases in bipolar disorder. Transl Psychiatry. 2020 07 08; 10(1):224. PMID: 32641695.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/1/2020
Brown HE, Feinstein S, Henderson DC. Working With Patients With Impaired Insight. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020 07 01; 77(7):766-767. PMID: 32347904.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/10/2020
Browne J, Cather C, Zvonar V, Thayer K, Skiest H, Arntz D, Kritikos K, Schnitzer K, Brown H, Evins AE, Donovan A. Developing a Sound Body: Open Trial Results of a Group Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Young Adults with Psychosis. Community Ment Health J. 2021 07; 57(5):864-871. PMID: 32524260.
Read at: PubMed
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