November 3, 2006

Rauch receives new appointments

Scott Rauch, MD, psychiatrist and administrator at the MGH (at left), has been named president and psychiatrist-in-chief of McLean Hospital and chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health (PPMH). Rauch replaces Gary Gottlieb, MD, president of BWH, who has been serving on an interim basis as both president of McLean Hospital and psychiatrist-in-chief of PPMH.

As head of McLean, Rauch will lead the largest psychiatric clinical care, research and teaching institution of Harvard Medical School. As chair of PPMH, Rauch will provide strategic leadership to ensure the quality, integration, growth and financial health of psychiatric programs at McLean and across the Partners HealthCare System.

Rauch has been on staff at the MGH for more than 15 years. He has broad experience in research, teaching and clinical care. Currently he serves in four leadership roles within Partners. At the MGH he is associate chief for Neuroscience, director of the Division of Psychiatric Neuroscience Research and Neurotherapeutics, and director of Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research. He also is director of Behavioral and Mental Health at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

"I am honored and elated to have been selected," says Rauch. "McLean Hospital, Partners HealthCare and Harvard Medical School are extraordinary institutions with unparalleled human resources. I cannot imagine a more ideal environment within which to pursue the compelling missions of contemporary psychiatry and mental health. Moreover, this is an especially exciting time in psychiatry, when progress in science and technology offers such promise for revolutionary advances in the quality of care."