October 21, 2005

New president of McLean Hospital appointed

Jack M. Gorman, MD, has been selected as the new president and psychiatrist-in-chief for McLean Hospital in Belmont and chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health. As head of McLean, Gorman will lead the largest psychiatric clinical care, research and teaching institution of Harvard Medical School. As chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health, he will provide strategic leadership to ensure the quality, integration, growth and financial health of psychiatric programs across the entire Partners HealthCare system, including its community-based psychiatric network.

Previously at Columbia University, Gorman was vice chair for psychiatric research, the Lieber Professor in Psychiatry and director of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He also is a noted researcher in anxiety disorders, depression and schizophrenia.