Posts by Justin A. Chen, MD, MPH
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Telepsychiatry Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrists describe how the outpatient psychiatry division switched from under 5% virtual visits in March 2019 to over 97% in March 2020.
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One-Quarter of American Undergraduate Students Have Contemplated Suicide
Concerned by results from a nationwide survey, a Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist and colleagues call for campuses to help mitigate student stress, with a special focus on transgender students and those who are racial/ethnic, gender or sexual minorities.
Biography
Justin A. Chen, MD, MPH, is medical director of Ambulatory Psychiatry Services at Mass General and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School specializing in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in young adults. His interests include cross-cultural psychiatry, stigma, racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service utilization, and medical education. As executive director and co-founder of the Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness, a nonprofit volunteer consortium of clinicians, educators, and researchers based in Boston, he delivers talks and trainings for families, clinicians, and high school and university educators throughout the United States on promoting the emotional health and psychological resilience of diverse student populations. He is also dedicated to teaching and mentorship, serving as associate director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at HMS and as a training mentor and co-director of the longitudinal sociocultural psychiatry curriculum for Mass General/McLean psychiatry residents.
Dr. Chen received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University and a Master of Public Health degree in clinical effectiveness from the Harvard-T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed psychiatry residency training at Mass General/McLean in 2013, followed by a Dupont-Warren Research Fellowship focused on improving engagement of depressed Chinese immigrants into mental health care at South Cove Community Health Center.
