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Leadership & Senior Partners
Jill M. Goldstein, Ph.D, M.P.H.
Jill M. Goldstein, Ph.D, M.P.H.

Founder & Executive Director, ICON-✘

Founder MGH Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory of Sex Differences in the Brain (CNL-SD)

Moerschner Endowed MGHRI Chair in Women’s Health

Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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 Maurizio Fava, M.D.
Maurizio Fava, M.D.

Chair, Mass General Brigham Academic Medical Centers Psychiatry Department; Executive Director,

MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI)

Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Stuart Tobet, Ph.D.
Stuart Tobet, Ph.D.

Professor & Professor & Interim Head, School of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Colorado State University (CSU)

Head of ICON-✘ Basic Science, Mass General Hospital

Affiliate Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Hospital

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Tanuja Chitnis, M.D.
Tanuja Chitnis, M.D.

Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Director of the Mass General Brigham Pediatric MS Center

Founder and Director of the Translational Neuroimmunology Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Jose C. Florez, M.D., Ph.D.
Jose C. Florez, M.D., Ph.D.

Mass General Brigham (MGB) Chair of Medicine

John T. Potts Jr., MD Endowed Chair in Medicine

Professor Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc
Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc

Executive Director, Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute

Director, Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS

Director and the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School

Mass General Hospital

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Justine Hervé, MSc, MIM
Justine Hervé, MSc, MIM

Program Manager

Administrative Leadership

Mass General Hospital

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Faculty Collaborators
Kyoko Konishi, Ph.D.
Kyoko Konishi, Ph.D.

Assistant Profressor, Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Ronald Garcia M.D., Ph.D.
Ronald Garcia M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Faculty, MGH Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory of Sex Differences in the Brain (CNL-SD)

Mass General Hospital

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Vitaly Napadow, Ph.D.
Vitaly Napadow, Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Director, Scott Schoen and Nancy Adams Discovery Center for Recovery from Chronic Pain

Director, Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CiPNI)

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Taben Hale, Ph.D.
Taben Hale, Ph.D.

Professor, Basic Medical Sciences

Vice Chair of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences

University of Arizona - College of Medicine Phoenix

Laura Holsen, Ph.D.
Laura Holsen, Ph.D.

Director of Research Training, Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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Gabriela Apiou, Ph.D
Gabriela Apiou, Ph.D

Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair in Translational Sciences

Director of Strategic Alliances, Mass General Hospital Research Institute

Director of Translational Research Core, Wellman Center for Photomedicine

Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Marek Kubicki, M.D., Ph.D.
Marek Kubicki, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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Nikos Makris, M.D., Ph.D.
Nikos Makris, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Director of the Center for Morphometric Analysis (CMA), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

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Olivia Okereke, M.D.
Olivia Okereke, M.D.

Co-Director, Mass General Neuroscience

Co-Director, MGH Division of Psychiatric Neuroimaging

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David Mischoulon, M.D., Ph.D.
David Mischoulon, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program

Mass General Hospital

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Roy Perlis, MD, MSc
Roy Perlis, MD, MSc

Founder & Director, Center for Quantitative Health, MGH

Ronald I. Dozoretz, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Associate Chief for Research, MGH Department of Psychiatry

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Stephanie Seminara, MD
Stephanie Seminara, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief of the Reproductive Endocrine Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Nandita Scott, MD
Nandita Scott, MD

Ellertson Family Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Mass General Brigham Women's Heart Health Program
Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Section, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Karen Miller, MD
Karen Miller, MD

Chief of the Neuroendocrine Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

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Yolonda Colson, MD, Ph.D.
Yolonda Colson, MD, Ph.D.

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Hermes C. Grillo Professor of Surgery

Mass General Hospital

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Jeannie Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Jeannie Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Genetics (and Pathology) at Harvard Medical School, The Blavatnik Institute

Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

The Phillip A. Sharp, PhD, Endowed Chair in Molecular Biology

Mass General Hospital

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Gian-Paolo Dotto, MD, Ph.D.
Gian-Paolo Dotto, MD, Ph.D.

Director of Laboratory of Skin Aging and Cancer Prevention , Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University

Primary Investigator at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Director of the Personalized Cancer Prevention Research Unit, University of Lausanne, School of Medicine and Biology, Switzerland

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Rudolph (Rudy) Tanzi, Ph.D.
Rudolph (Rudy) Tanzi, Ph.D.

Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Harvard Program in Neuroscience Affiliate Faculty Member, Harvard Medical School

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Anna Blazejewska, Ph.D.
Anna Blazejewska, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Radiology. Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,

Mass General Hospital

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Steven Arnold, M.D.
Steven Arnold, M.D.

Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Mass General Hospital

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Stephen Buka, Sc.D.
Stephen Buka, Sc.D.

Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health.
Director of the Center, Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology, Brown University
Director of the Center for the Study of Human Development, Brown University

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Andrea Edlow, MD, MSc.
Andrea Edlow, MD, MSc.

Associate Professor of OB/GYN, Harvard Medical School

Director of Obstetric Research, Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Ob/Gyn

Principal Investigator, Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology & Mass General Brigham COVID-19 Pregnancy Biorepository

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.
Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

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Jonathan Rosand, M.D.
Jonathan Rosand, M.D.

Co-Director, Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health

Managing Co-Director, Mass General Neuroscience

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John Quackenbush, Ph.D
John Quackenbush, Ph.D

Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Amy Sarma, M.D.
Amy Sarma, M.D.

Cathy E. Minehan Endowed Chair in Cardiology

Co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program and Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Programs at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Emily Lau, MD, MPH
Emily Lau, MD, MPH

Director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Women's Heart Health program
Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Tamarra James-Todd, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Tamarra James-Todd, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Jeff Huffman, M.D.
Jeff Huffman, M.D.

Director
Cardiac Psychiatry Research Program
MGH Division of Psychiatry and Medicine

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Junior Faculty & Fellows
Evan Bordt, Ph.D
Evan Bordt, Ph.D

Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Instructor in Investigation in the Lurie Center for Autism, Mass General Research Institute

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Dmitry Prokopenko, Ph.D
Dmitry Prokopenko, Ph.D

Instructor in Neurology, Genetics and Aging Research Unit

McCance Center for Brain Health Faculty Member

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Dylan Spets, Ph.D.
Dylan Spets, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry

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Rachel Zsido, Ph.D.
Rachel Zsido, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry

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Simmie Foster, M.D., Ph.D.
Simmie Foster, M.D., Ph.D.

Instructor in Psychiatry

Research Scientist

Depression Clinical and Research Program

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Andrea Harriott, MD, Ph.D.
Andrea Harriott, MD, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Amy Peters, Ph.D.
Amy Peters, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Lydia Shook, MD
Lydia Shook, MD

Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Investigator in the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Alumni
Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD
Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD
Antonia V. Seligowski, Ph.D.
Antonia V. Seligowski, Ph.D.
Lauren Breithaupt Langston, Ph.D
Lauren Breithaupt Langston, Ph.D
Partnerships
Cala Health Inc
Cala Health Inc

Cala Health is a medical technology company pioneering a new class of electrical medicine called neuroperipheral therapy.

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McCance Center for Brain Health
McCance Center for Brain Health

The MGH McCance Center’s mission is to identify the indicators of brain health and discover interventions that can prevent brain disease.

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The International Cancer Prevention Institute (iCPI) - Switzerland
The International Cancer Prevention Institute (iCPI) - Switzerland

The International Cancer Prevention Institute (ICPI) is a unique educational and research platform for addressing these issues through interdisciplinary efforts and strong personal relationships among participating laboratories and institutions.

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MGH Mongan Institute
MGH Mongan Institute

The Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital is dedicated to achieving health equity and improving the lives of people with complex health needs through research and training in population and health care delivery team science.

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UsAgainstAlzheimer's - WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s
UsAgainstAlzheimer's - WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s

UsAgainstAlzheimer’s was founded in 2010 to disrupt and diversify the movement to cure Alzheimer’s. Through urgent and inclusive mobilization, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s has worked to dramatically increase funding for Alzheimer’s and dementia research.

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MGH Department of Medicine Sex & Gender Program
MGH Department of Medicine Sex & Gender Program

The Department of Medicine (DOM) Women’s Health and Sex- and Gender-based Medicine (WSGM) Program

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