Natasha Bailen, Ph.D.
Natasha Bailen, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bailen received her PhD in clinical psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, and completed her clinical internship at University of Chicago Medicine. She completed her postdoctoral training at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD). She is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Massachusetts and specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of OCD, anxiety, and related disorders. Her research focuses on the role of dysregulated emotional processes in psychopathology.
Emily Bernstein, Ph.D.
Emily Bernstein, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a staff psychologist in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Bernstein received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and her PhD in clinical psychology from Harvard University. She completed her clinical internship at VA Boston Healthcare System and postdoctoral training at MGH/HMS and is a licensed psychologist in the state of Massachusetts. Dr. Bernstein’s research is focused on developing alternative and more scalable approaches for the prevention and treatment of OCD and related disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, and other emotional concerns. This includes exploring exercise and other lifestyle interventions and brief cognitive behavioral treatments, as well as leveraging digital tools to bring evidence-based therapy to more people. In this pursuit, she also aims to understand why psychological interventions work, and particularly transdiagnostic ones (or those targeting processes that cut across emotional disorders, like perseverative negative thinking), and to use these insights to increase the efficiency and impact of treatments. Dr. Bernstein was a 2022 recipient of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program Award and member of the Career Development Institute for Psychiatry.
Maria Lynn Buttholph, M.D.
Maria Lynn Buttholph, M.D., has been a staff psychiatrist and member of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) since 1988. She participated in the original clinical trials that helped to determine effective medications for the treatment of OCD. She has treated a large number of patients with OCD, as well as OCD spectrum disorders including trichotillomania. She has published numerous papers and has written a chapter about OCD and pregnancy. She is an Instructor at the Harvard Medical School and at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Joan A. Camprodon, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Dr. Camprodon is Chief of the Division of Neuropsychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Clinically, he is the founding director of the MGH Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) clinical service, a member of the Psychiatric Neurosurgery Committee and an attending physician in the departments of Psychiatry (Neuropsychiatry) and Neurology (Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology). He is board-certified in Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry.
Anne Chosak, Ph.D.
Anne Chosak, Ph.D., is Director of Psychological Services at the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD), and Director of the CBT Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is a staff psychologist at MGH and Assistant Professor (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chosak received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from SUNY at Albany in 2000. She received her post-doctoral training at CORD and was licensed in 2002. Dr. Chosak’s clinical and research background was in the anxiety disorders of adulthood, and her current clinical and research interests are in the OCD spectrum disorders of adulthood. Dr. Chosak serves on the Clinical Psychology Internship Training Committee at MGH.
Darin D. Dougherty, M.D., M.Sc.
Dr. Darin D. Dougherty is the Medical Director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Institute at McLean Hospital, the Director of the Neurotherapeutics Division in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH, the Director of the Mood Disorders Section of the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Neuroimaging Group, and the Associate Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Neuroimaging Group. Dr. Dougherty is also the Director of Medical Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Institute and the Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Trichotillomania Clinic. Additionally, Dr. Dougherty is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a Clinical Associate at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Visiting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Angela Fang, Ph.D.
Angela Fang, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Fang completed her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Boston University. She trained at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School for her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship, and is a licensed psychologist. She has received funding from the Harvard University Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, and the International OCD Foundation, to examine the role of oxytocin in body dysmorphic disorder, both as a biomarker of social cognitive impairments, and as an investigational agent to improve biases in social cognition. Dr. Fang was awarded a 5-year K23 career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the brain correlates of self-focused processing in body dysmorphic disorder and social anxiety disorder. Her clinical interests include the cognitive-behavioral treatment (and other evidence-based approaches) of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related disorders including OCD, BDD, and eating disorders.
Jennifer L. Greenberg, Psy.D.
Jennifer L. Greenberg, Psy.D., Director of Translational Research at the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD), Assistant in Psychology (Psychiatry) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Greenberg received her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2008. She completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Greenberg is a licensed clinical psychologist and sees patients through CORD at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in private practice. Her clinical and research background is in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of body image and obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders across the lifespan, with an emphasis on BDD. Her primary research interest resides in treatment outcome and cognitive risk factors that may play a role in the etiology and maintenance of these disorders. Clinically, she treats adolescents and adults with obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, including BDD and OCD, and eating disorders.
Michael S. Hanau, M.D.
Michael S. Hanau, M.D., a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and the Harvard-Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Part-time, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hanau is Assistant Medical Director in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD). He brings experience in the diagnosis and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder to CORD at MGH.
Brynn Huguenel, Ph.D.
Brynn Huguenel, PhD is a staff psychologist in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Instructor in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is also a staff psychologist on MGH’s inpatient psychiatric unit (Blake 11) and in the Psychological Evaluation and Research Lab (PEaRL). Dr. Huguenel received her PhD in clinical psychology from Loyola University Chicago. She completed both her clinical internship and post-doctoral fellowship at MGH/HMS. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Massachusetts and specializes in cognitive-behavioral therapy for OCD and related disorders, as well as anxiety more broadly. Dr. Huguenel’s research aims to improve the accessibility of evidence-based mental health treatment through the development, implementation, and evaluation of intervention programs, particularly digital technologies.
Ryan Jane Jacoby, Ph.D.
Ryan Jane Jacoby, Ph.D. is a staff psychologist at the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Assistant Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Jacoby completed her undergraduate studies at Williams College and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her clinical internship and post-doctoral training at MGH/HMS. Dr. Jacoby is a licensed clinical psychologist who sees patients through CORD. Her clinical and research interests are broadly focused on the nature and treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders, including specific interests in psychological mechanisms of change in exposure-based therapies as well as treatment augmentation strategies that capitalize on these mechanisms (e.g., inhibitory learning approaches, repetitive negative thinking). She is also interested in improving the understanding and behavioral/psychophysiological measurement of transdiagnostic psychological processes (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty, attentional/cognitive control) utilizing multi-method approaches (e.g., attentional disengagement eye-tracking tasks, behavioral economic decision-making paradigms, biometric indices of autonomic arousal). Dr. Jacoby is currently funded by a Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institute of Mental Health examining attentional/cognitive control as a mechanism in the transdiagnostic treatment of repetitive negative thinking. She was a 2017 recipient of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) Young Investigator Research Award and a 2018 recipient of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program Award.
Adam Jaroszewski, Ph.D.
Adam Jaroszewski, Ph.D. is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a Staff Psychologist in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He completed his doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard University and clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship a MGH/HMS. Dr. Jaroszewski is a licensed psychologist in the state of Massachusetts, whose clinical work focuses on the treatment of OCD and related disorders as well as anxiety and depression. His research focuses on examining the cognitive and affective factors that increase risk for the development and maintenance of self-injurious thoughts and behavior (SITB). He is particularly interested in using approaches from decision and affective science to understand why people decide to engage in SITB. He is also involved in developing scalable, smartphone delivered interventions for SITB and associated disorders (e.g., depression, BDD).
Nancy Keuthen, Ph.D.
Nancy Keuthen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Co-Founder and Director of the MGH Trichotillomania Clinic & Research Unit, and Chief Psychologist in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD). Dr. Keuthen received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook. She is internationally recognized as a leading clinician and researcher in trichotillomania. She has been instrumental in establishing awareness of and improving treatment for this disorder. Dr. Keuthen serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, including the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Trichotillomania Learning Center and the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation. Her clinical, research and teaching contributions have been largely focused on the cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatment of OCD and OCD-spectrum disorders, including skin picking, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), and trichotillomania. She has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters and co-authored the popular book Help for Hairpullers.
Jennifer Ragan, Ph.D.
Jennifer Ragan, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Adult Intensive Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Program. She is staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ragan received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. There, Dr. Ragan received extensive training in cognitive-behavioral therapy and provided supervision to junior clinicians through Dr. Michael Telch’s Anxiety Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. She then completed her clinical internship and post-doctoral training through Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ragan is now a licensed psychologist and sees patients through the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital and in private practice. Her clinical interests are broad, in that she treats patients suffering from anxiety, mood, and eating disorders using both individual and group modalities. Her research interests center around the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
Jessica Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Jessica Rasmussen, Ph.D., is an Assistant in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. During graduate school, Dr. Rasmussen received cognitive-behavioral training in the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, as well as specialized training in the treatment of compulsive hoarding. Her research interests focus on the etiology, maintenance and treatment of compulsive hoarding and OCD. She also specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders and body dysmorphic disorder.
Joshua Salvi, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Josh Salvi is a psychiatrist at the MGH Center for OCD and Related Disorders, an Associate Program Director of the MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency Program, Director of the Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) in Psychiatry, and an Investigator at the MGH Translational Research Center. Dr. Salvi also teaches medical students in multiple capacities at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Salvi earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from The Rockefeller University in the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience with A. James Hudspeth. He graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College and has received various awards, including the Gold Humanism Honor Society’s Humanism in Medicine Award, the John Metcalf Polk Prize for academic achievement in medical school, the American Psychiatric Association’s Leadership Fellowship, the NIMH Outstanding Resident Award Program, the Broad Institute’s Pamela Sklar Fellowship for psychiatric research. He has a research interest in behavioral and genetic studies in OCD and is thrilled to continue clinical work in the same area.
Jeremiah M. Scharf, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Scharf is a behavioral neurologist and neuropsychiatric geneticist who works at the interface between neurology and psychiatry, employing statistical and molecular genetics techniques along with clinical research tools to investigate the etiology and pathogenesis of Tourette Syndrome (TS), OCD and related disorders as model neuropsychiatric illnesses. Clinically, Dr. Scharf directs the Neurology Tic Disorders Unit within the MGH Division of Movement Disorders, and is Co-Director of the MGH TAA National TS Center of Excellence in partnership with Dr. Sabine Wilhelm in MGH Psychiatry.
Ivar Snorrason, Ph.D.
Ivar Snorrason, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist at the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Instructor in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Snorrason completed his bachelor and master’s degrees in psychology at the University of Iceland, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Dr. Snorrason completed post-doctoral training at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical School and at McLean Hospital. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and specializes in the treatment of OCD and related disorders. His research focuses on the etiology, nosology and treatment of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, including trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder) and excoriation (skin-picking) disorder.
Aisha Usmani, Ph.D.
Aisha Usmani, Ph.D., is the Director of the Adult Intensive Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Program and staff psychologist at the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. She is an Assistant in Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Usmani specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders, OCD and OCD spectrum disorders, tic disorders, body-focused repetitive behaviors, including trichotillomania and skin picking, and other related disorders. Her research experiences include management of research programs and providing assessment and protocol-based treatment for studies, including an RO1 grant. She also enjoys supervising clinical psychology graduate and postdoctoral students. Dr. Usmani completed her postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University and The Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle (EBTCS), where she gained expertise in evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral therapy, including acceptance and mindfulness-based treatments. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Idaho State University, where she focused on cognitive-behavioral treatments.
Hilary Weingarden, Ph.D.
Hilary Weingarden, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a staff psychologist in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Weingarden received her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and her PhD in clinical psychology from George Mason University. She completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral training at MGH/HMS and is a licensed psychologist in the state of Massachusetts. Dr. Weingarden’s research is focused on cognitive and emotional risk factors for adverse outcomes such as suicide risk in OCD and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). Her research also focuses on applying technology to enhance assessment of and interventions for OCD and related disorders. Her work is currently supported by a Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institute of Mental Health. In addition to NIMH, Dr. Weingarden’s work has been funded as Principal Investigator or co-Investigator by Harvard Medical School and industry collaborations, and she was a 2019 recipient of the Association for Psychological Science’s (APS) Rising Star Award. In addition to her work at MGH, Dr. Weingarden has a private practice where she provides evidence-based psychological treatments for adults with OCD and related disorders.
Lisa Zakhary, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Lisa Zakhary is the Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) and Director of Pharmacology in the MGH Excoriation Clinic and Research Unit. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her general adult psychiatry residency at MGH/McLean. Additionally, she earned a Ph.D. in molecular neurobiology and completed the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Fellowship during her medical training. She is Assistant in Psychiatry at MGH and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She specializes in providing medication treatments to individuals with OCD and related disorders. Additionally, Dr. Zakhary has a special interest in psychodermatology and as a resident, co-founded the MGH Comprehensive Skin Management Clinic, a psychiatry/dermatology clinic providing multi-disciplinary treatment to individuals with a variety of psychodermatologic conditions including compulsive skin picking, trichotillomania, and body dysmorphic disorder. As staff, she continues to explore ways to optimize psychodermatologic treatment through collaboration, education, and research. Her current research is focused on evaluating novel treatments for trichotillomania.
