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
Leadership
Ryan Jane Jacoby, Ph.D.
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 whose clinical work focuses on exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD. Her research focuses on (a) understanding transdiagnostic mechanisms underlying the development and effective treatment of OCD and related disorders (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty, attentional/cognitive control) including using multi-method measurement approaches (e.g., eye-tracking, decision-making paradigms, psychophysiological/neurophysiological measures), and (b) augmenting ERP outcomes and characterizing treatment response (e.g., inhibitory learning approaches). Dr. Jacoby has published over 45 peer-reviewed articles, co-authored a book on treating OCD in adults (and its 2nd edition), and written several book chapters, resulting in an h-index of 26. She has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (K23) and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Finally, she has received several honors for her research, including the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program Award in 2018 and the Association of Psychological Science “Rising Star” award in 2021.
Barbara Rosemberg, MHA
Barbara Rosemberg earned a Master of Healthcare Administration from Suffolk University in 2014 and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2006. With more than 20 years of management experience, she has been a member of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) since 2009, serving first as Program Manager and later as Program Director. She currently serves as Program Director for both CORD and the Center for Digital Mental Health (CDMH). In 2025, she was appointed Program Director for the Division of Psychology within the Mass General Brigham Department of Psychiatry.
Lisa Zakhary, M.D., Ph.D.*
Lisa Zakhary, M.D., Ph.D. 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.
Anne Chosak, Ph.D.
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.
