Leadership and Faculty

If you have questions about training in psychiatry please call or email Dr. Christine Crawford, Director of of Psychiatry Medical Student Education. We are happy to answer questions from medical school applicants or current medical students seeking additional information about the opportunities to learn more about psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Christine Crawford, MD, MPH
Director of Psychiatry Medical Student Education
crawforc@bu.edu or (617) 414-1949

Faculty

Introduction to Clinical Medicine: (1st Year)

Isidore Berenbaum, MD, BMC
Pooja Raval, M.D. Codman Square 
Peter Loewinthan, MD, Dot House
Harbor Health Center
South Boston

Learn more about these sites and CCHERS, the Center for Community Health, Education, Research, and Service, here

DRx Psychiatry: (2nd Year)

Karen M. Harnett, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
(617) 414-2653
Karenharnett@brown.edu
Chandlee Dickey, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Training Director, Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Harvard Medical School
774 -826-2457
ChandleeDickey@hms.harvard.edu
Todd Farchione, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders
Boston University
617-353-9610
tfarchio@bu.edu
Douglas Hughes, MD
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor of Psychiatry
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
617-638-4150
dhughes@bu.edu
Terence Keane, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Associate Chief of Staff for Research,
Director of the National Center for PTSD
VA Boston Health Care System
857-364-4551
Terry.Keane@va.gov
Donna Pincus, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Child Anxiety Disorder Treatment Center
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders
Boston University
648 Beacon Street, 6th Floor
617-353-9610
dpincus@bu.edu
Jennifer Schuster Wachen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Women’s Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD
VA Boston Healthcare System
857-364-5444
Jennifer.Schuster@va.gov
Valentina Sabino, PhD
Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
617-638-4327
vsabino@bu.edu
Casey Taft, PhD
Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
National Center for PTSD
VA Boston Healthcare System
857-364-4344
Casey.Taft@va.gov
Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Neurology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
617-414-2652
bwolozin@bu.edu

 

Psychiatry Clerkship: (3rd Year)

 

Bedford VA
Site Director: Dongchan Park, MD
Berkshires Medical Center
Site Director: Liza Donlon, MD
Boston Medical Center –
Consult Liaison Service
Co-site Director: Jeanne Horner, MD
Co-site Director: Dara Wilensky, MD
Boston Medical Center –
Emergency Department
Site Director: Alison Duncan, MD
Bournewood Hospital
Site Director: Katherine Ruiz-Mellott, MD
Brockton VA
Site Director: Alexandra Pinkerson, MD
Fuller Hospital
Site Director: Scott Haltzman, MD
Good Samaritan Hospital
Site Director: Norman Tabroff, MD
Kaiser Permanente
Site Director: Zhongshu Yang, MD
Manchester VA
Site Director: Lynne Villemaire, MD
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Site Director: Mustafa Tai, MD
West Roxbury VA
Site Director: Larkin Kao, MD

 

Psychiatry Electives: (4th Year)

Site Director
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, 
Boston Medical Center
Kevin Donnelly-Boylen, MD
Addiction Psychiatry, 
VA Jamaica Plain
Michael Dawes, MD
Emergency Psychiatry,
Boston Medical Center
Alison Duncan, MD
Acute Psychiatry in Managed Care, 
Bournewood Hospital
Katherine Ruiz-Mellott, MD
Adolescent Psychiatry, 
Bournewood Hospital
John Hart, MD
Advanced Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry,
West Roxbury VA
Larkin Kao, MD