{"id":1916,"date":"2015-02-28T23:10:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T04:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/?page_id=1916"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:41:29","slug":"faculty-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/education-2\/medical-student-education\/faculty-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership and Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nChristine Crawford, MD, MPH<\/strong>
\nDirector of Psychiatry Medical Student Education
\ncrawforc@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0(617) 414-1949<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Faculty<\/h3>\n

Introduction to Clinical Medicine: (1st Year)
\n<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Isidore Berenbaum, MD<\/a>, BMC
\nPooja Raval, M.D.\u00a0Codman Square\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/a>Peter Loewinthan<\/a>, MD, Dot House
\nHarbor Health Center
\nSouth Boston<\/p>\n

Learn more about these sites and\u00a0CCHERS, the Center for Community Health, Education, Research, and Service,\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

DRx\u00a0Psychiatry: (2nd Year)
\n<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Karen M. Harnett, PhD
\n<\/strong>Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
\nBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
\n(617) 414-2653
\nKarenharnett@brown.edu<\/a><\/td>\n		Chandlee Dickey, MD
\n<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
\nTraining Director, Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program
\n<\/a>Harvard Medical School
\n774 -826-2457
\nChandleeDickey@hms.harvard.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Todd Farchione, PhD
\n<\/strong>Research Assistant Professor
\nCenter for Anxiety and Related Disorders
\nBoston University
\n617-353-9610
\ntfarchio@bu.edu<\/a><\/td>\n		Douglas Hughes, MD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
\nProfessor of Psychiatry
\nBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
\n617-638-4150
\ndhughes@bu.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Terence Keane, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Professor of Psychiatry\u00a0and Psychological and Brain Sciences<\/span>,
\nBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
\n<\/span>Associate Chief of Staff for Research,
\nDirector of the National Center for PTSD
\nVA Boston Health Care System
\n857-364-4551
\nTerry.Keane@va.gov<\/a><\/td>\n		Donna Pincus, PhD
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor
\nDirector, Child Anxiety Disorder Treatment Center
\nCenter for Anxiety and Related Disorders
\nBoston University
\n648 Beacon Street, 6th Floor
\n617-353-9610
\ndpincus@bu.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jennifer Schuster Wachen, PhD
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
\nBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
\n<\/span>Women\u2019s Health Sciences Division,\u00a0National Center for PTSD
\nVA Boston Healthcare System
\n857-364-5444
\nJennifer.Schuster@va.gov<\/a><\/td>\n		Valentina Sabino, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Professor,\u00a0Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry
\nBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
\n617-638-4327
\nvsabino@bu.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Casey Taft, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Professor,\u00a0Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
\nNational Center for PTSD
\nVA Boston Healthcare System
\n857-364-4344
\nCasey.Taft@va.gov<\/a><\/td>\n		Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Professor,\u00a0Departments of Pharmacology and Neurology
\nBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
\n617-414-2652
\nbwolozin@bu.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Psychiatry Clerkship: (3rd Year)<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Bedford VA
\n<\/strong>Site Director: Dongchan Park, MD<\/td>\n		Berkshires Medical Center<\/strong>
\nSite Director: Liza Donlon, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston Medical Center \u2013
\nBrighton<\/strong>
\nSite Director: Olga Kuznetsova, MD<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n		Boston Medical Center \u2013
\nConsult Liaison Service<\/strong>
\nSite Director: Dara Wilensky, MD<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston Medical Center \u2013
\nEmergency Department
\n<\/strong>Site Director: Katharina Trede, MD<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n		Bournewood Hospital
\n<\/strong>Site Director:\u00a0<\/span>Katherine Ruiz-Mellott, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brockton VA
\n<\/strong>Site Director: Alexandra Pinkerson, MD<\/td>\n		Fuller Hospital<\/strong>
\nSite Director: Michele <\/span>Casoli-Reardon,<\/span>\u00a0MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Good Samaritan Medical Center
\n<\/strong>Site Director: Norman Tabroff, MD<\/td>\n		Kaiser Permanente
\n<\/strong>Site Director: Susan Imamura<\/span>, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
West Roxbury VA
\n<\/strong>Site Director: Rashad <\/span>Alikhan<\/span>, MD<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\n

Psychiatry Electives: (4th Year)<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Site<\/strong><\/td>\nDirector<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>
\nBoston Medical Center<\/strong><\/td>\n		Dara Wilensky, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Addiction Psychiatry,<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\nVA Jamaica Plain<\/b><\/td>\n		John Renner, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emergency Psychiatry,
\nBoston Medical Center<\/strong><\/td>\n		Katharina Trede, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Acute Psychiatry in Managed Care,\u00a0<\/span>
\nBournewood Hospital<\/strong><\/td>\n		Katherine Ruiz-Mellott, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adolescent Psychiatry,\u00a0<\/span>
\nBournewood Hospital<\/strong><\/td>\n		John Hart, MD<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry,<\/span>
\nWest Roxbury VA<\/strong><\/td>\n		Rashad <\/span>Alikhan<\/span>, MD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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