Our Leadership Team
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Program Director
Vice Chair for Education
Dr. Margo Funk is the Program Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Residency Program, Vice Chair for Education and Director of Cardiovascular Psychiatry. Dr. Funk completed her medical training at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis and psychiatry training at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Funk is nationally recognized for her work in Cardiovascular Psychiatry with specific interests in QTc prolongation, stress-related cardiac disorders, and the interface of cardiac adverse effects in people who inject drugs. Dr. Funk is a strong supporter of the development of institutional policies and initiatives to promote physician well-being, including those that support the retention and promotion of women and underrepresented minority physicians into healthcare leadership roles.
Chair, Mass General Brigham AMC Psychiatry Department
Executive Director
MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute
Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Maurizio Fava is Chair of the Mass General Brigham AMC Psychiatry Department, executive director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI), and the Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fava is a world leader in the field of depression and clinical psychopharmacology. He has edited eight books and authored or co-authored more than 900 original articles published in medical journals with international circulation, articles which have been cited more than 115,000 times in the literature and with an h index greater than 165 on Google Scholar.
Dr. Fava obtained his medical degree from the University of Padova School of Medicine and completed residency training in endocrinology at the same university. He then moved to the United States and completed residency training in psychiatry at MGH. He founded and was director of the hospital’s Depression Clinical and Research Program from 1990 until 2014. Under Dr. Fava’s direction, the Depression Clinical and Research Program became one of the most highly regarded depression programs in the country, a model for academic programs that link, in a bi-directional fashion, clinical and research work. In 2007, he also founded and is now the executive director of the MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute, the first academic CRO specialized in the coordination of multi-center clinical trials in psychiatry.
Dr. Fava has been successful in obtaining funding as principal or co-principal investigator from both the National Institutes of Health and other sources for a total of more than $150 million. Dr. Fava’s prominence in the field is reflected in his role as the co-principal investigator of STAR*D, the largest research study ever conducted in the area of depression, of the RAPID Network, the NIMH-funded series of studies of novel, rapidly-acting antidepressant therapies, and of the Clinical Coordinating Center of EPPIC-Net, the NINDS-funded network conducting proof-of-concept trials in pain. Dr. Fava is a well-known national and international lecturer, having given more than 300 presentations at national and international meetings. He is the former President of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and, in 2023, Dr. Fava was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Chairman Emeritus
Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. David Silbersweig is a neurologist and psychiatrist, and serves as the Chairman Emeritus
of the Department of Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Co-Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Institute for the Neurosciences. He is a Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Silbersweig is one of the pioneers of functional neuroimaging research in psychiatry. He and his colleagues focus upon the development and application of new neuroimaging techniques to localize and characterize brain circuitry dysfunction underlying major psychiatric disorders. The aim of Dr. Silbersweig’s systems-level neuropathophysiology work is to help provide a foundation for the development of novel, targeted, biologically based diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to aid those suffering with mental illness.
Associate Program Director
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Dr. Amonoo serves as the Associate Training Director for the Brigham Psychiatry Residency and is a physician-scientist. She directs the Well-being and Cancer Research Program within the Department of Psychiatry at BWH. Additionally, she is a staff physician in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). Her research focuses on developing practical, cost-effective, and scalable psychosocial interventions for patients with cancer and their caregivers. Her work has consistently received funding from HMS, the BWH/Brigham Research Institute, various foundations, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the National Institute of Health (NIH). Dr. Amonoo earned her medical degree from HMS, a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She completed her residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital and pursued a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine/psychosocial oncology at BWH/DFCI.
Associate Program Director
Child Track Director
Dr. Rahmat is the Associate Program Director and the Director of Child Track of the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Residency. He is also the Medical Director of Young Adult Mental Health (YAMH) at Brigham Psychiatric Specialties. Dr. Rahmat received his medical degree from St. George's University. He completed his general psychiatry residency at Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College where he served as the outpatient chief. He completed his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital where he served as an administrative chief. He supervises residents in the YAMH clinic and lectures on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to medical students, residents, and fellows. He is passionate about the development of evidence-based psychiatric care for transitional-age youth, particularly those with serious mental illnesses.
Assistant Program Director
Director of Outpatient Education
Dr. Courtney Deban is an Outpatient Psychiatrist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Program Director for Outpatient Training for the Brigham Psychiatry Residency, and the Director of Outpatient Resident Clinics at Brigham Psychiatric Specialties. She received her medical degree from Saint Louis University and completed her general psychiatry residency at Brown University/Butler Hospital. Clinically, Dr. Deban treats adult patients with a wide range of psychopathology. She also supervises PGY2-4 residents in their general psychiatry clinics.
Assistant Program Director
Research Track Co-Director
Associate Vice Chair for Research
Dr. Mahon is the Director of the Mood Trajectories and Outcomes Laboratory at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Co-Director of the Research Track. She received her PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research aims to understand causes, course of illness and outcomes of mood and stress related disorders, utilizing multidisciplinary approaches to answer these questions, integrating methods from neuroimaging, genomics and neuroendocrinology. Specific goals include characterizing neurobiological mechanisms leading to different illness trajectories and developing biomarkers to predict treatment response. Dr. Mahon has authored over 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts on mood, stress and related disorders and her research has been consistently funded by the NIH since 2012, including K01, R01 and U54 project awards.
Assistant Program Director
Research Track Co-Director
Joseph J. Taylor, MD, PhD (Joe) obtained his MD and PhD in 2015 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Next, he completed psychiatry residency as a member of the Neuroscience Research Training Program at Yale and a Sidney Baer, Jr. Clinical Neuroscience Fellowship in the Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He joined the BWH faculty in 2020. Joe serves as Medical Director of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Clinical Trials Director in the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics. He also serves as Director of the Interventional Psychiatry Research Program. His research primarily focuses on deriving and testing brain circuit targets for brain stimulation or neurosurgical ablation. Throughout his career, Joe has received funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation, the Baszucki Group, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Harvard Medical School, and Mass General Brigham.
Assistant Program Director
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Site Director
Dr. Anyaeji is a Psychiatrist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Site Director of the BWH/Harvard Medical School (HMS) Psychiatry Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (BWFH). He is a member of the ADHD consultation and evaluation (ACE) service where he serves as the medical director of the program. He is also a member of the Interventional Psychiatry service (specific interests in Ketamine therapy and Electroconvulsive therapy) at BWFH and directs and organizes the educational experiences of trainees rotating through the service. He studied Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his medical degree from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western and completed his general psychiatry residency at BWH/HMS Psychiatry Residency Program. Moreover, Dr. Anyaeji lectures on neuroscience to the PGY1 residents. His academic interests include developing a neuroscience and interventional psychiatry informed curriculum for psychiatry residents.
Arianna Bouchard
Education Program Coordinator
Arianna Bouchard joined BWH Psychiatry in 2023. In her role as Education Course Coordinator, she supports the Psychiatry Residency Program and manages the Grand Rounds and didactic series along with program leadership. Arianna is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication where she received a Bachelor of Science in Journalism.
Michelle Horgan
Education Program Manager
Michelle Horgan is the Education Program Manager for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Department of Psychiatry where she supports the department’s educational efforts with the Psychiatry Training Programs. She especially enjoys supporting our residents and is committed to seeing our trainees succeed in their educational and career endeavors. Michelle is a graduate of Stonehill College in Eastern, MA where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology.