Posts by Gregory Lewis Fricchione, MD
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Developing a Dual Residency Program in Psychiatry and Neurology in Somaliland
Faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital collaborated with leaders in Somaliland, a country in East Africa that's beset by regional conflict, to address its nearly complete lack of psychiatrists and neurologists. A dual residency program graduated three brain health specialists despite literal threats to their lives.
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Neurobiologically Resilient Individuals Have Reduced Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers are using a new neurobiological definition of resilience to stress—lower amygdalar activity—and have linked it to decreased risk of cardiovascular events.
Biography
Gregory Fricchione, MD, has been on faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1993. Since July 2002, he has been associate chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Fricchione received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1978. He is board certified in psychiatry and has added qualifications in psychosomatic medicine and geriatric psychiatry. He has taught in the medical schools at New York University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Auckland in New Zealand and at Emory University, as well as at Harvard Medical School where he is Professor of Psychiatry.
Dr Fricchione is Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine at Mass General and of the Mass General Psychosmatic Medicine Fellowship Program and of Spaulding Rehabilitation Behavioral Mental Health Service and supervises a large staff of attending and trainee psychiatrists taking care of the psychiatric problems of medically and surgically ill patients. He is also Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Mass General where clinical, animal and neuroimaging research into the effects of stress and resiliency take place.
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