Leadership
Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., Director
Susan Sprich, Ph.D., Associate Director
Steven Safren, Ph.D., Internship Track Director
Faculty & Staff
Lee Baer, Ph.D.
Corrine Cather, Ph.D.
Anne Chosak, Ph.D.
Thilo Deckersbach, Ph.D.
Sherrie Delinsky, Ph.D.
Jeanne Fama, Ph.D.
Amy Farabaugh, Ph.D.
Jennifer Greenberg, Psy.M.
Joseph Greer, Ph.D
Nancy Keuthen, Ph.D.
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Robert Knauz, Ph.D.
Luana Marques, Ph.D.
Kenneth Park, Ph.D.
Susan Penava, Ph.D.
Tim Petersen, Ph.D.
Jennifer Ragan , Ph.D.
Noreen Reilly-Harrington, Ph.D.
Diana Ronell, Ph.D.
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Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., Director
Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., is Director of the Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Program.
She is also Founder and Director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Clinic & Research Unit and Director of The OCD and Related Disorders Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wilhelm is recognized as a leading researcher in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), and Tic Disorders, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and chapters on the cognitive functioning, prevalence, and treatment outcome of these disorders. Currently, Dr. Wilhelm is the principal investigator of several NIMH-funded clinical research studies. In addition, Dr. Wilhelm recently authored a treatment manual for OCD entitled: Cognitive Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Guide for Professionals. She also recently wrote the self-help book Feeling Good About the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems. Dr. Wilhelm serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, as well as the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, the International Obsessive-Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG), and the Tourette Syndrome Association Behavioral Science Consortium. Her areas of clinical and research interest include the development, maintenance, and treatment outcome of BDD, OCD, and Tourette Syndrome/Tic Disorders.
Research and Clinical Interests: body dysmorphic disorder (BDD); Tourette Syndrome/tic disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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 Susan Sprich, Ph.D., Associate Director
Dr. Sprich is the Associate Director of the CBT Program. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Albany. She is a Clinical Assistant in Psychology at MGH and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. At MGH, she is the Associate Director of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program. She is involved in clinical research in the treatment of ADHD, anxiety, mood, and OC-Spectrum disorders. She also teaches seminars and does supervision with the interns and residents. She has worked with many children and adolescents with Trichotillomania in the past 10 years. She currently sees children and adolescents in her private practice office located in Wellesley, MA.
Research and Clinical Interests: panic disorder; social anxiety; generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); ADHD; trichotillomania; OC-spectrum disorders in children and adolescents
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 Steven Safren, Ph.D., Internship Track Director
Dr. Steven Safren is the Director of the Behavioral Medicine Service and the Track Director for the CBT and Behavioral Medicine tracks of the MGH Clinical Psychology Internship. He is also an Associate Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Cognitive Behavioral and Behavioral Medicine Tracks of the MGH clinical psychology internship, and a Research Scientist at Fenway Community Health. Dr. Safren received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University at Albany (State University of New York) in 1998, and did his internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Safren is board certified in CBT by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He has been the recipient of several NIH grants related to CBT. For a more detailed description of his current research projects and interests, and access to his C.V., please click here.
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 Lee Baer, Ph.D.
Dr. Baer is Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Chief of Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He came to MGH in 1981 as a post-doctoral fellow in Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine after completing his internship in clinical psychology at the Yale-affiliated West Haven Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. Dr. Baer was a co-founder of the MGH OCD Clinic and the MGH/McLean OCD Institute, and was the founder and original director of the cognitive behavioral track of the APA approved MGH Clinical Psychology Internship Program. He has also directed the Harvard Telepsychiatry Project and the MGH Psychiatry Biostatistics Program. Dr. Baer is an internationally-known expert in obsessive-compulsive disorders, and has co-edited all three editions of the leading textbook on this topic, as well as authoring two books for the general public on this topic. He has published more than 200 articles, chapters, books and computer programs. Dr. Baer has also taught the required statistics sequence of classes for first-year Harvard Psychology PhD students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences since 2002, and he has co-led the Harvard Medical School Hypnosis Seminar since 1982. He is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding mentoring. Dr. Baer’s clinical specialty is in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Research and Clinical Interests: obsessive-compulsive disorders; anxiety disorders; stress management
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 Corrine Cather, Ph.D.
Corinne Cather, PhD, is a cognitive behavioral psychologist for the Massachusetts General Hospital Schizophrenia Program in Boston. In addition, she is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Cather earned her undergraduate degree in biopsychology at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and her doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University where she received specialized training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and health psychology. She completed an internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (formerly Rutgers) and a post-doctoral fellowship at the MGH in the Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program with Donald Goff, MD.
Dr. Cather's research interests include the development and implementation of CBT to residual symptoms, medication adherence, and substance use disorders in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. She is currently working on modifying these approaches for use in first episode and early psychosis. She has authored empirical and review papers on CBT for psychosis together with training clinicians nationwide in CBT approaches and techniques. Dr. Cather has received a National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia Young Investigator Award for the cognitive behavioral treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia, is the site principal investigator for a NIMH-funded study on social skills training and health care management in elderly individuals with major mental illness, and is the project manager for a NIMH-funded study of behavioral family treatment for substance use disorders co-occuring with major mental illness. She also collaborates with Dr. Evins to offer smoking cessation interventions to individuals with schizophrenia and consults on behavioral techniques to promote weight loss in individuals with major mental illness.
Research and Clinical Interests: schizophrenia; schizoaffective disorder; delusional disorder; schizophreniform disorder; dual diagnosis
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 Anne Chosak, Ph.D.
Anne Chosak, Ph.D., is currently a Clinical Assistant of Psychology (Psychiatry) at MGH. Dr. Chosak received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from SUNY at Albany in 2000. She received her post-doctoral training at the OCD Clinic at MGH and was licensed in 2002. Dr. Chosak’s clinical and research background is in anxiety disorders of adulthood. Her current clinical and research interests and activities involve the OCD spectrum disorders of adulthood, including OCD, BDD, and trichotillomania (compulsive hair-pulling). Dr. Chosak also supervises interns for the MGH clinical psychology internship program.
Research and Clinical Interests: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); OCD-spectrum disorders (body dysmorphic disorder, hair-pulling, etc.); panic; generalized anxiety; phobias
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 Thilo Deckersbach, Ph.D.
Thilo Deckersbach, Ph.D., is the Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Research in the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program at MGH. He received his Ph.D. from Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, and completed his clinical psychology internship in the Cognitive-Behavior Scientist track at MGH/Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the neurobiology underlying cognitive impairments in mood and anxiety disorders using neuroimaging techniques, such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). He specializes in cognitive-behavior therapy for mood and anxiety disorders, as well as behavioral treatment for Tourette Syndrome. In particular, he focuses on cognitive rehabilitation approaches for cognitive impairments in unipolar and bipolar disorder and CBT for anger and irritability.
Research and Clinical Interests: bipolar disorder; anger and irritability; behavioral treatment for Tourette Syndrome/tic disorders
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 Sherrie Delinsky, Ph.D.
Sherrie Selwyn Delinsky, Ph.D. is a Clinical and Research Fellow in Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Delinsky earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and completed her Pre-doctoral Fellowship at McLean Hospital. She earned her BA from Yale University. Dr. Delinsky’s primary clinical and research interests include body image and cognitive-behavioral therapy for eating disorders and anxiety disorders.
Research and Clinical Interests: eating disorders; anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; binge-eating disorder; body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
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 Jeanne M. Fama, Ph.D.
Jeanne M. Fama, Ph.D., is a Clinical Research Fellow in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fama completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University and her clinical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 2005. She began researching Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and related disorders at the Massachusetts General Hospital OCD Clinic in 1997. She has since served as project coordinator and study therapist for several studies on the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of OCD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Tourette Syndrome, and chronic tic disorders. Dr. Fama's primary research interests include neuropsychological, cognitive, and family variables influencing treatment outcome in OCD and OCD-spectrum disorders, including BDD and Tourette Syndrome.
Research and Clinical Interests: Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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 Amy Farabaugh, Ph.D.
Amy Farabaugh, PhD, is an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and a staff psychologist in the Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She was appointed as Director of Temperament and Personality Studies at the DCRP in 2004.
Dr. Farabaugh entered the PhD program in counseling psychology at Northeastern University in 1996, after completing her Masters in community counseling in 1994 at Loyola University-Chicago. During her doctoral training years, she became the first non-postdoctoral extern to train on the inpatient psychiatric unit (Blake 11) of Massachusetts General Hospital, where she assisted in comprehensive treatment of psychiatric patients, conducted brief psychotherapy, and provided cognitive and personality assessments. She also worked in the MGH Acute Psychiatry Services (APS), where she diagnosed, triaged, and formulated disposition decisions including inpatient hospitalization for patients presenting to the emergency room.
Dr. Farabaugh then completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Brockton/West Roxbury VAMC / Harvard Medical School. Dr. Farabaugh was then appointed a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School’s Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP). As a member of the DCRP, she provided comprehensive assessment and determined patient eligibility for research protocols. She also provided protocol-driven CBT for research patients in a treatment resistant depression (STAR*D) study. For MGH’s psychiatry outpatient division, she conducted dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) for patients with borderline personality disorder diagnosis, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for outpatients with anxiety and depressive disorders.
Dr. Farabaugh provides direct clinical care for approximately 25 patients, runs CBT and DBT groups, and treats couples. In addition, she serves as a co-investigator for various pharmacological trials. She has presented her research at the American Psychiatric Association and has co-authored several original publications. In 2003, Dr. Farabaugh received the Kaplen Fellowship Award from the Harvard Medical School to study depression in individuals with Parkinson’s Disease. In 2004, she received the New Investigator award to attend NCDEU 44th Annual Meeting and participate in the New Investigator Program. In 2005, she was appointed Co-Chair of MGH’s Psychiatry Grand Rounds Committee.
Research and Clinical Interests: depression; generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); social anxiety; specific phobias; panic
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Jennifer Greenberg, Psy.M.
Jennifer L. Greenberg, Psy.M., is a Clinical Fellow in Psychology (Psychiatry) at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Jennifer is completing her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. Her clinical and research background is in anxiety and body image disorders, with a particular focus on the cognitive behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, including OCD and BDD. Jennifer began her clinical and research involvement with OCD and related disorders in 2001 and has since served as a research coordinator, independent evaluator and study therapist on several studies on the pharmacological and psychological treatment of OCD, BDD and eating disorders. Jennifer's primary research interest is in treatment development and treatment outcome in body dysmorphic disorder and other OC spectrum disorders for child/adolescent and adult populations. Jennifer is also interested in treatment mechanisms and predictors of change, including therapist and client factors that influence cognitive-behavioral treatment outcomes, as well as the effectiveness and dissemination of empirically-supported treatments.
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Joseph Greer, Ph.D.
Dr. Greer is the Associate Director of Behavioral Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is currently specializing in the psychological treatment of patients coping with cancer. He completed his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a research focus on the presentation and management of anxiety and depression in primary care. During his predoctoral training, he interned at the Department of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he worked in a variety of medical settings including oncology, cardiology, and primary care. He currently provides cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to patients experiencing psychological distress related to medical conditions such as cancer and HIV. His research activities include two studies under review at NIH to examine the use of CBT to treat anxiety co-morbid with advanced cancer. He also assists Dr. Safren on several federally-funded research grants examining the efficacy of CBT for individuals with HIV and depression.
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 Nancy Keuthen, Ph.D.
Dr. Keuthen is an Associate Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Co-Founder and Co-Director of the MGH Trichotillomania Clinic & Research Unit, and Chief Psychologist in the MGH Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Clinic & Research Unit. Dr. Keuthen received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook. She is internationally recognized as a leading clinician and researcher in trichotillomania. She has been instrumental in establishing awareness of, and improving treatment for, this disorder. Dr. Keuthen serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, including the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Trichotillomania Learning Center and the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation. Her clinical, research, and teaching contributions have been largely focused on the cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatment of OCD and OCD-spectrum disorders, including skin picking, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), and trichotillomania. She has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters and co-authored the popular book Help for Hairpullers.
Research and Clinical Interests: OCD; trichotillomania; self-injurious skin picking; Tourette's/tic disorders; BDD
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Robert Knauz, Ph.D.
Dr. Knauz is a staff psychologist in the CBT program. He focuses on CBT for BDD and bipolar disorder as well as the behavioral medicine applications of CBT. He is specifically interested in HIV. Dr. Knauz did his psychology internship and fellowships at MGH in 1997-1999, and is an active member of the supervisory and clinical faculty.
Research and Clinical Interests: Depression, BDD, HIV/AIDS, and LGBT issues
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 Luana Marques, Ph.D.
Luana Marques, Ph.D., is a Clinical Research Fellow in Psychology (Psychiatry) at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Marques completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at SUNY at Buffalo and her clinical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 2007. Dr. Miller’s clinical and research background is in anxiety disorders and romantic relationships. Dr. Marques' primary research interest is the interplay between diversity and psychopathology. Specifically, Dr. Marques' research interests involve developing and testing Cognitive Behavioral interventions that are culturally sensitive for individuals suffering from various anxiety disorders. Research and Clinical Interests: Interpersonal Functioning, Romantic
Relationships, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).
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Kenneth Park, Ph.D.
Kenneth Park completed his undergraduate work in psychology at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New School for Social Research in NYC. He completed his internship (2001) and Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002) in the adult psychology track at MGH and Harvard Medical School. He has an eclectic orientation to psychotherapy with training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as family and behavioral interventions. Since the completion of his training, he has been working in the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program at MGH as well as working with the Family Interventions for Dual Diagnosis research program at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center (2002-2005). His current interests include psychotherapy for mood and anxiety disorders and its interaction with character pathology. In 2005, he joined the Primary Care Psychiatry group at MGH and also has a private practice in Boston.
Research and Clinical Interests: bipolar disorder; depression; panic disorder; generalized anxiety; PTSD; personality disorders
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 Susan Penava, Ph.D.
Dr. Penava is a Licensed Psychologist on staff in the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Penava received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. She completed her internship in clinical psychology and a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive-behavioral therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Penava has been involved in research in the areas of panic disorder, PTSD, depression, a novel cognitive-behavioral approach for treatment-resistant drug dependence, and behavioral medicine, and has co-authored articles and/or conference presentations in these areas. Dr. Penava coordinates the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Seminar for psychology interns and fellows and psychiatry residents at MGH, and is also a lecturer in this seminar. She provides clinical supervision in cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychology interns and fellows and psychiatry residents, as well. Her primary clinical interests are cognitive-behavioral treatments of anxiety disorders, particularly panic disorder. Dr. Penava maintains a private practice in Boston’s Back Bay.
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 Jennifer Ragan, Ph.D.
Jennifer Ragan
received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. There, Dr. Ragan received extensive training in cognitive-behavioral therapy and provided supervision to junior clinicians through Dr. Michael Telch’s Anxiety Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. She then completed her clinical internship and post-doctoral training through Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ragan is now a licensed psychologist and sees patients through the OCD clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and in private practice. Her clinical interests are broad, in that she treats patients suffering from anxiety, mood, and eating disorders using both individual and group modalities. Her research interests center around the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder through Dr. Sabine Wilhelm’s research lab.
Clinical/Research Interests: Assessment and treatment of anxiety, mood, eating disorders, OCD, and body dysmorphic disorder.
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 Noreen Reilly-Harrington, Ph.D.
Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington, PhD is an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School and is on the staff of both the Massachusetts General Hospital Bipolar Clinic and Research Program and the Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center. She is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and Temple University and completed both her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive-behavioral therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Reilly-Harrington is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and has received research awards from the Society for Research in Psychopathology, the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and Massachusetts General Hospital for her work examining the role of life stress and cognition on the course of bipolar mood disorders. She routinely lectures both nationally and internationally on the topic of cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder and has served as a Pathway Leader for the National Institute of Mental Health's Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder, the largest study of bipolar disorder ever conducted. She is currently the Director of Training and Assessments for the National Institute of Mental Health Bipolar Trials Network. She is also a co-author of a recent book entitled “Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Therapy Approach.” Clinically, she specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and binge eating disorder.
Research and Clinical Interests: binge-eating disorder; bipolar disorder; depression; obsessive-compulsive disorder; panic
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 Diana Ronell, Ph.D.
Diana M. Ronell Ph.D. is an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ronell specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders. Dr. Ronell earned her doctorate in Psychology at the Derner Institute of Adelphi University and has taught at various universities including the State University of New York and the City University of New York. She is Director of the Open Skies Program for fearful flyers, and has developed and conducted seminars across the United States and Europe. In this regard she has consulted to other phobia centers as well as to airlines, and has lectured to various organizations including the Presidents Association of the American Management Association.
Her research interests include the relationship of panic symptoms, medical illness and panic disorder, the etiology and treatment of specific phobias, medical anxiety and particularly fear of flying where she has investigated the onset, population characteristics, media effects, treatment variables, relapse prevention, and the effects of 9-11. She serves on the Committee on AABT’s (Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy) Response to Terrorism.
Dr. Ronell maintains a private practice in Boston and Arlington, Massachusetts. Her clinical specialties include specific phobias, panic disorder, generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, trichotillomania and post traumatic stress disorder. Research and Clinical Interests: specific phobias; panic disorder; generalized anxiety; obsessive-compulsive disorder; trichotillomania; post traumatic stress disorder
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