Massachusetts General Hospital | Psychiatry

Biography

Dr. Norman is Board Certified in Clinical and Child and Adolescent Psychology. He received his doctorate in Human Development, Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University and also has an M.A. in Child Development from Tufts University, Child Study Department. Dr. Norman has been the Chief of Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1989. His previous positions within the Department of Psychiatry at MGH include: Co-Director of Research, Eating Disorders Unit; Director of the Child Clinical Psychology Training Program; Chief Psychologist, Child Psychiatry Service and Eating Disorders Unit; Coordinator, Child Psychology Track and Director of Training, Internship Program in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Dennis Norman has served as Faculty Chair of the Harvard University Native American Program since 2005. He is the chair for the Harvard University Native American Program and Health Initiative and teaches field research for Native communities at the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Norman's research interests include personality structure and functioning, psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness and trauma, and intellectual and neuropsychological correlates of ADHD and provision of culturally appropriate health care services.

Dr. Norman is Past Chair of the Board of Registration for Psychology, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.