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Eugene Beresin
Gene Beresin, MD, MA studied music at Princeton and philosophy and medicine at The University of Pennsylvania. He is executive director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) – a centre with the mission of helping caregivers and youth understand normal development and destigmatizing mental illness. He is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr Beresin was training director of the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent Residency Training Program for 30 years. He is deputy editor and media editor of the Journal Academic Psychiatry. Dr Beresin is director of the required two year course at Harvard Medical School, The Developing Physician: Lifelong Integration of Personal and Professional Growth with Sensitive, Compassionate Care, a curriculum that focuses on reflective practice, development as physicians and the patient doctor relationship. He has published over 140 papers and chapters on medical education, professional well-being, psychotherapy and psychiatric disorders. He has been a consultant and expert on numerous online and television broadcasts, plays and composes music and blogs for the Huffington Post and Psychology.