Dr. Stewart is a child and an adult psychiatrist as well as a clinical researcher. She is an attending physician at the MGH Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Clinic and at the MGH Pediatric OCD/ Tourette’s Disorder Clinic. Dr Stewart is a member of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit at MGH. She is Instructor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and Director of Research at the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Institute, McLean Hospital. Dr. Stewart attended Dalhousie University School of Medicine, Canada, and completed General psychiatry and Child psychiatry subspecialty residency training at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She subsequently completed an OCD research fellowship at McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Stewart has written several papers on genetic, clinical and treatment aspects of OCD, Tourette’s Disorder and related illnesses. She sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation. Her clinical, teaching and research efforts focus on the genetics of OCD and on OCD throughout the lifespan. In collaboration with Dr. David Pauls and others at the PNGU, and clinical researchers such as Dr. Michael Jenike at MGH, studies investigating candidate genes of OCD are underway.
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