Administration

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.