Chandlee C. Dickey, M.D.
Training Director, Harvard South Shore Program

Dr. Dickey received her bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies (Chinese) from Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, and her medical degree from Washington University, St. Louis, MO.  She had her psychiatry residency experience at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, where she was Chief Resident.  She came to Harvard in 1993 for a two-year fellowship in Neuropsychiatry followed by a VA research fellowship.  She is the Medical Director of our Serious Mental Illness Program and is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Dickey teaches several courses at HSS including Psychiatric Interviewing for PGY I residents, as well as Introduction to Neuropsychiatry and Human Sexuality for PGY II residents.

Dr. Dickey’s research has focused on structural and functional anatomy of schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) and schizophrenia.  More recently her efforts have centered on aspects of social cognition in SPD with particular attention to prosody and facial affect.  She has received both VA and NIMH funding. 

Fe Erlita Festin, M.D. Associate Director, HSS Director of Inpatient Mental Health Service VA Boston Healthcare System Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Fe Erlita D. Festin, M.D. is the Associate Director for the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program. She has been with the program since she completed her Psychiatry residency at the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Mental Health Center Program at the Brockton VA Medical Center. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, she also completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology before pursuing her residency in Psychiatry.

Dr. Festin is actively involved in teaching, coordinates the PGY-II curriculum, conducts weekly morning rounds and PGY-IV seminars during didactic days. Her current clinical work is as the Director of the Inpatient Mental Health service at VA Boston.

As a teacher and clinician, she has been recognized for both roles, having been a recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from Harvard South Shore and an Achievement Award from the VA for founding the Women's Inpatient unit at VA Boston. She is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology. Her interests are mood disorders, geriatrics and women's mental health issues.

Gary B. Kaplan, M.D. Director, Mental Health Service VA Boston Healthcare System Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Boston University School of Medicine Lecturer on Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Gary B. Kaplan, M.D. (www.kaplanlab.org) is the Director of Mental Health of the VA Boston Healthcare System and a Professor in Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Psychology at Boston University School of Medicine. He received his medical training at Hahnemann University School of Medicine. His residency training in Psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical Center was followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Previously, Dr. Kaplan had served as Chief of the Mental Health and Behavioral Science Service at the Providence VA Medical Center and as Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Professor and Molecular Pharmacology at Brown Medical School. Dr. Kaplan has established a national reputation as a preclinical and clinical researcher in the area of the neurobiology of addiction and comorbid psychiatric disorders. His basic research examines the role of midbrain neurotransmitter systems on motivational neural circuitry and behavior in opiate addiction models. His clinical research examines the psychopharmacology of co-morbid addictive disorders in schizophrenia. He has been a teacher for undergraduates, medical students and residents in areas of psychiatry, neuroscience and pharmacology. He has also achieved national recognition for teaching in psychiatry and neuroscience via the publication of an important textbook with American Psychiatric Press Inc., and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Robert W. McCarley, M.D. Professor and Head Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Associate Director, Mental Health Service VA Boston Healthcare System

Dr. Robert W. McCarley received his bachelors degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He interned at Brigham & Women's Hospital and completed his residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Associate Director of Mental Health at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

Dr. McCarley has been widely recognized and honored for his research in basic cellular neurophysiological and anatomical studies related to the control of behavioral states of sleep and wakefulness and for his neuroimaging studies in schizophrenia. He has received the top research prizes of the US Sleep Research Society, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. He has published more than 275 peer-reviewed papers, and has received consistent peer reviewed funding from the US NIH and VA Medical Research Service.

 Mark S. Bauer, M.D. Harvard/VA Chair for Academic Program Development

Co-Director, COLMAR, Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School VA Boston Healthcare System

Dr. Mark S. Bauer was the Director of Harvard South Shore from 7/2007 to 6/2010. During his tenure the program underwent a significant transformation including the enhancement of the PGY IV electives, the creation of Project IMPART, and the development of Residents Pathway to Research program.  He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also completed his psychiatric residency and fellowship and served on the faculty of the Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology. Prior to coming to HSS he served as Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University.

Dr. Bauer has received awards for teaching, administration research, and clinical care. He has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance for over a decade, has twice been named Exemplary Psychiatrist by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, authored 4 books, and edited 2 others.

Among these publications are two books of note for psychiatry education: The Field Guide to Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment (Lippincott, 2003), a clinical manual for trainees and non-specialist clinicians, and Melancholy, and Addiction: A mind Apart: Poems from Across Seven Centuries (Oxford University Press, 2008), a literary anthology of relevance both to clinical educators and to literary and cultural critics.