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.
Professional Staff
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.
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.
Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D.
Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., is the Donovan-Chien Family Endowed Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, Chief, Division of Psychology at Mass General Brigham (MGB) Academic Medical Center (AMC), Director of the Center for Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders (CORD) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Director of the Center for Digital Mental Health in Psychiatry at MGH.
Dr. Wilhelm is recognized as a leading psychotherapy researcher. To address the increasing rates of mental health concerns in the context of a global mental health service provider shortage, her recent work has focused on the development of scalable digital approaches to treatment. She has published over 370 papers, chapters, and nine books. She has also given around 300 lectures on advances in psychotherapy, including many invited international keynotes. Dr. Wilhelm has developed many digital psychotherapy training programs for mental health service providers and has led patient care outreach to support individuals locally, nationally, and internationally.
Her research uses cutting-edge technology to improve and personalize care for mental health concerns. Dr. Wilhelm has developed or is currently testing smartphone-based treatments for depression, suicidality, OCD, and body dysmorphic disorder. She is currently working on AI and other cutting-edge approaches to enhance the detection of high-risk behaviors and suicidality, machine learning algorithms to match patients to treatments, and generative AI to support more personalized and effective interventions. Her ultimate goal is to use technology-based interventions to increase global access to high-quality mental health interventions.
