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Massachusetts General Hospital Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship has been training fellows for over five decades. The fellowship, steeped in institutional and programmatic tradition, strives to maintain its foundational educational values while advancing—and advancing with—the field of psychosomatic medicine. With its strong roots, diverse training experiences and investment in the intellectual and personal development of each fellow, the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship provides thoughtful and hard-working advanced trainees with the tools needed for a successful career in this rewarding and challenging subspecialty.

Elements of the Fellowship

Our fellowship focuses on:

  • Inpatient consultation
  • Advanced neuropsychiatric training
  • Professional development of trainees’ identities as physicians and medical specialists/experts
  • Onsite outpatient experiences, including:
    • An innovative clinic for the treatment of functional neurological disorders
    • A specialty clinic elective (co-localized in either the HIV or oncology clinic)

As a fellow, you will have one hour of weekly supervision with fellowship director Nicholas Kontos, MD, as well as weekly group walk rounds with emeritus director Greg Fricchione, MD, daily attending rounds, and a thrice weekly "running of the list" with members of the fellowship faculty.

Two didactic hours per week are set aside strictly for fellows, with a year-long focus on neuropsychiatry. In addition, there are special modules on psychodynamic theory and application, leadership and a broad array of core topics in psychosomatic medicine.

As with all the rest of our curriculum, these lectures pull from a deep bench of talented faculty from our division, department and interdepartmental staff. A monthly seminar on “Professionalism, Physicianhood and Psychiatric Practice,” led by Dr. Kontos and Judith Restrepo, MD, further expresses our commitment to the development of your professional identity and ethical rigor.

Curriculum

We offer fellows a variety of educational opportunities throughout the year:

  • Psychosomatics Conference
  • Fellows Seminar (twice weekly)
  • Morbidity & Mortality Conference (monthly)
  • Bedside rounding (daily)
  • Group rounding (weekly)
  • Collective review of all fellow cases (thrice weekly)
  • Access to numerous departmental conferences and rounds
Sample Didactic Topics
  • Agitation
  • Alcohol use disorders and withdrawal
  • Antidepressants
  • Capacity
  • Cardiac psychiatry
  • Catatonia and related syndromes
  • Cerebellum
  • Conversion disorder
  • Deception syndromes
  • Developmental disorders   
  • Electroconvulsive therapy
  • EEG
  • Emergency psychiatry
  • End of life care
  • Epilepsy
  • Geriatric psychiatry
  • Healthcare economics
  • Hepatitis C
  • History and principles of psychosomatic medicine
  • HIV psychiatry
  • ICU care
  • Ketamine
  • Leadership and transition to attendinghood
  • Mind-body medicine and spirituality and medicine
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Neuroimmunology
  • Neuromodulation
  • Neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology
  • Nutritional deficiencies
  • Oncology
  • Personality pathology
  • Primary care
  • Psychodynamic psychiatry for the consultation psychiatrist
  • Psychopharmacology in the medically ill
  • Quality improvement
  • Rehabilitation psychiatry
  • Renal
  • Research
  • Schizophrenia in the general hospital and secondary psychoses
  • Sleep medicine
  • Stress
  • Transplant psychiatry
  • Women’s health, including pregnancy and addiction



Fellowship Alumni

Since the launch of the fellowship, we have trained over 100 fellows in consultation-liaison psychiatry. Our alumni practice in a variety of programs across the country.

See recent alumni

Class of 2021 – 2022

Benjamin Hoover, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, Stanford University Medical Center
 
Charles Masaki, MD, PhD
Attending Psychiatrist
Avery D. Weisman Consultation Psychiatry Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
 
Noor M. R. Beckwith, MD
Attending, Acute Psychiatry Service – Massachusetts General Hospital
Attending, Avery D. Weisman Consultation Psychiatry Service – Massachusetts General Hospital
Attending, Inpatient Psychiatry Service (Blake 11) – Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry – Harvard Medical School

Class of 2020-2021

Elizabeth Madva, MD
Attending, GI Psychiatry and Liver Transplant Psychiatry – Massachusetts General Hospital
Dupont Warren Research Fellow – Harvard Medical School
 
Diana Punko, MD, MS
Attending, Acute Psychiatry Service – Massachusetts General Hospital
Attending, Avery D. Weisman Consultation Psychiatry Service, Transplant Psychiatry – Massachusetts General Hospital
Perinatal Addiction Psychiatrist, HOPE Clinic – Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry – Harvard Medical School 
 
Ashika Bains, MD, MSc
Attending, Acute Psychiatry Service, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry – Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry – Harvard Medical School
 
Samuel Kohrman, MD
Attending, Blake 11 Inpatient Medical-Psychiatry Unit, Acute Psychiatric Service, Psycho-oncology Clinic – Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry – Harvard Medical School

Class of 2019-2020

Erica Baller, MD, MS
Attending, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry – University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Postdoctoral Researcher, Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center - University of Pennsylvania

Flannery Merideth, MD
Attending, Psychiatry Consultation Services – Baystate Medical Center
Teaching Faculty – University of Massachusetts Medical School

Emily Sorg, MD
Attending, Avery D. Weisman Consultation Psychiatry Service, Psycho-oncology Service – Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Director of Medical Student Training in Psychiatry – Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry – Harvard Medical School

Class of 2018-2019

Daniel Daunis, MD
Attending, Consultation Liaison Service, Psychiatric Liaison to Cardiac Transplant Team – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Associate Director, Psychiatry Residency Program – VUMC
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Maria Prom, MD
Attending, Avery D. Weissman Consultation Psychiatry Service, Psychiatry Emergency Service – Massachusetts General Hospital
Global Psychiatry Research Fellow – MGH
Instructor in Psychiatry – Harvard Medical School

Judith Restrepo, MD
Attending, Avery D. Weissman Consultation Psychiatry Service, Transplant Psychiatry Service – Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry – Harvard Medical School

Class of 2016-2017

Caitlin Adams, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, Blake 11 Inpatient Unit, Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service, Mass General
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Deanna Chaukos, MD
Staff Psychiatrist, Geriatric and Adult Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital
Wellness Lead, University of Toronto Psychiatry Residency Program
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine

Rubiahna Vaughn, MD
Director of External Relations; Attending, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service, Tisch Hospital
Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University School of Medicine

Class of 2015-2016

Marta Herschkopf, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, Consultation-Liaison Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Fellow, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Charlotte Hogan, MD
Associate Training Director, Mass General/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency
Attending Psychiatrist, Acute Psychiatry Service, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Mladen Nisavic, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, Addiction Consult Service
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Class of 2014-2015

Sean Glass, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, Collaborative Care, Urgent Care Clinic, Psycho-oncology Clinic
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Kenneth Novoa, MD
Staff Psychiatrist, Psychosomatic Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Ketty Thertus, MD
Consultation Psychiatry Service, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Class of 2013-2014

Avi Gerstenblith, MD
Co-director, Psychiatry Clerkship, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Amanda Green, MD
Staff Psychiatrist, Veterans Administration, Austin TX

Sean Heffernan, MD
Psychiatrist and Owner, Sean P. Heffernan, MD, LLC (private practice), Annapolis MD
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

John Taylor, MD, MBA
Associate Director, Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship
Assistant Director, Mass General/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency
Attending Psychiatrist, Acute Psychiatry Service, Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Class of 2012-2013

Xavier Jimenez, MD
Medical Director, Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program, Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

Nadia Quijije, MD
Director of the Burns/Trauma Psychiatry Consultation Service
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Justin Smith, MD
Director, Psychiatric Consultation Service, University of Virginia Health System
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia

Class of 2011-2012

Christopher Celano, MD
Associate Director, Cardiac Psychiatry Research Program, Mass General
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Ana Ivkovic, MD
Director, Transplant Psychiatry
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

James Rustad, MD
Consultation Psychiatrist, White River Junction VA Medical Center and Burlington Lakeside Community Based Outpatient Clinic, Burlington VT
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Class of 2010-2011

Scott Beach, MD
Training Director, Mass General/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency
Attending Psychiatrist, Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service, Mass General
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Anne Gross, MD
Director, Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship, Oregon Health & Science University
Medical Director, Unity Psychiatric Emergency Services, Portland OR

Kimberly Hartney, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, University of South Florida

Class of 2009-2010

Patrick Aquino, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center; Medical Director, Ambulatory and Integrated Services, Lahey Behavioral Health Services
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine

Pierre Azzam, MD
Director, Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship
Associate Director, Residency Training Program, University of Pittsburgh Psychiatry Residency

Jennifer Brown, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge MA
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

How to Apply

Applicants must be slated to graduate from an ACGME certified program in adult psychiatry. USMLE Steps I-III must be completed/passed. A full Massachusetts medical license, Massachusetts Controlled Substance Registration and Federal DEA Registration will be expected to be attained by matched applicants in advance of arrival at Mass General. Applicants with J1 visas will be considered.

Application Requirements

Applicants must submit the following:

  • A brief letter of interest
  • A curriculum vitae
  • Three letters of reference (these should be sent by their writers, one of whom must be your training director or department chair)

Send all materials to:

Nicholas Kontos, MD
Email: nkontos@mgh.harvard.edu

Mary Horn
Email: mhorn2@mgh.harvard.edu

Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street – Warren 610
Boston, MA 02114

Application deadline: Accepted August 1 – October 1