Professor and Associate Chief
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard, Massachusetts
Gregory Fricchione, MD, is Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and of the Chester Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry and Co-Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health in the Department of Neurology at Mass General Hospital and the Mind Body Medicine Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. From 2000 to 2002, he served as mental health director for President and Mrs. Carter at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He specializes in neuropsychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and for over 40 years has helped care for patients with severe medical, neurological and surgical illnesses. He has published more than 230 peer reviewed publications and has authored or co-authored 6 books including the 2011 Compassion and Healing in Medicine: On the Nature and Uses of Attachment Solutions for Separation Challenges (Johns Hopkins University Press). He is also the medical editor of the Harvard Medical School Special Report on Stress Management. His research interests include study of the catatonic syndrome, the neurophysiology of stress and resilience and how the comparative neurology of brain evolution illuminates our concepts of health and illness and medical caregiving.
Plenary: Whole Health and the Holarchy: The Biopsychosocial Model Revisited
Friday, November 8, 2024
9:40 AM – 10:25 AM EST
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Medical Complications of Catatonia and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A Systematic Review
Friday, November 8, 2024
11:05 AM – 12:20 PM EST
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