Laura Goldstein, PhD received a grant from Childs Play to implement Virtual Reality therapy in the Pediatric Pain Clinic. The clinic treats children and young adults ages 5-22 years with various types of chronic and often debilitating chronic pain conditions. It is staffed by an interdisciplinary team including Dr Goldstein (a psychologist), a physician, a nurse educator, a social worker, and […]
Lisa Fortuna, MD and Donna Pincus, PhD are principal investigators on a new study just funded by the Patient-Center Outcomes Research Institute entitled KIDS FACE FEARS: Face-to-face vs. Computer-Enhanced Formats Pragmatic Study of Anxiety. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of an online CBT program called “Cool Kids” for treating anxiety as compared to face-to-face treatment. The study will enroll English- […]
In March, our collaborators – Dr. K.V. Kishore Kumar, Dr. Vandana Gopikumar & Kamala Easwaran – visited Boston from India for meetings with the Department of Psychiatry and local community agencies working to address homelessness and mental health. Dr. Kishore and Kamala presented at BUSM on March 29th on the work of The Banyan, which […]
Shamaila Khan, PhD, the Co-Director for the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, was invited by the Islamic Medical Association of North America, or IMANA, on a humanitarian mission to the Rohingyan refugees in Bangladesh. The United Nations has described the military offensive against the Rohingyan people in Myanmar as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” More than […]
Mieke Verfaellie, Ph.D, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Memory Disorders Research Center at VA Boston Healthcare System, delivered the Birch Memorial Lecture at the 46th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). The meeting was held February 14-17, 2018 in Washington, DC and had approximately 2000 attendees. Dr Verfaellie and Psychiatry faculty member, Dr Jennifer […]
Two of our faculty members received Integrated Pilot Grants from the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). The purpose of the Integrated Pilot Grant Award mechanism is to stimulate scientific discovery in all areas of basic or translational research related to the prevention, diagnosis, and management of human disease. Christina Borba, PhD collaborated on a […]
Lisa Fortuna, MD, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, was quoted in an NPR story about an ACLU case against immigration authorities in which a child was allegedly separated from her mother. Dr Fortuna, who is also a co-founder of Refugee Immigrant Assistance Center Community Counseling, has also filed an amicus brief in the lawsuit. The Plaintiff in the case, […]
Our department has launched a new research fellowship, the Neuropsychiatry Translational Research Fellowship, in partnership with Harvard Medical school and the VA Boston Healthcare System. This unique partnership was spearheaded by faculty member Ann Rasmusson, MD and Gary Kaplan, MD and would not have been possible without the support and guidance of David Henderson, MD and […]
We are pleased to announce that Christina Borba, PhD, has been awarded the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU-CTSI) Integrated Pilot Grant! The pilot grant is a collaboration between the Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Michael Paasche-Orlow from BUSM’s Department of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), and Dr. Alisa Lincoln from the Institute of Urban Health Research at Northeastern […]
Groundbreaking work by BU researchers, including Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD, of our department and Ann McKee, MD, BU professor of Pathology and Neurology, on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has been featured in the Washington Post and 60 Minutes. CTE is a neurogenerative disease in the brain that can arise from head injuries like military blasts and sports related […]