Professional Training
We offer an extensive selection of highly regarded training programs in the areas of psychology, social work, psychiatry, special education, psychopharmacology and counseling.
The Stuart T. Hauser Research Training Program in
Biological and Social Psychiatry
Founding Directors: Stuart T. Hauser, MD, Ph.D. & Robert W. McCarley, MD
Principal Investigator: Martha E. Shenton, Ph.D.
Co-directors: Martha E. Shenton, Ph.D., Robert W. McCarley, MD, Gail Musen, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator: Maria Loy
The Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP), originally founded by legendary scientist Stuart T. Hauser, MD, Ph.D., has been in operation for 32 years. It is distinguished by its commitment to multi-disciplinary training, including that of outstanding students drawn from a spectrum of sciences relevant to clinical psychiatry research. Student fields range from basic biological brain research, to family studies, to longitudinal developmental studies of psychopathology and resilience.
Currently, the CRTP offers six stipends that support postdoctoral candidates (MD, Ph.D., Ed.D.) for two-year fellowships, contingent upon successful completion of the first year. Preceptors from over 40 different research sites throughout Harvard are paired with appropriate postdoctoral fellows.
In addition to the core research mentor teaching relationship, all fellows attend a weekly interdisciplinary seminar at JBCC, led by Martha Shenton, Robert McCarley, and Gail Musen. At these seminars, fellows present their work, participate in a grant-writing workshop, and partake in a substantive module, the latter of which changes each year depending on the interests of the seminar members. Past topics have included intelligence, emotion, language, memory, depression paradigms and coping processes. The final component of training involves course work at Harvard and other universities, focused on relevant topics such as multivariate statistics, neuroscience and experimental design.
For more information on this program or to find out how to apply, please send e-mail to crtp@jbcc.harvard.edu.
Child Mental Health Forum
Director: Claudio O. Toppelberg, MD
Wednesdays 1:30 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m.
Judge Baker Children's Center (Click here for directions)
