Eugene Beresin, MD

Eugene V. Beresin, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Mass. General Hospital and McLean Hospital.

Dr. Beresin is Executive Director of the new Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds: Developing Resilience through Engagement, Awareness and Media (DREAM) that provides public mental health education for parents and those who work with youth and young adults. Its website is aimed at fostering resilience, preventing mental illness, and helping those with psychiatric disorders understand how to get the best possible help.

Dr. Beresin is Director of the MGH Center for Mental Health and Media. He also directs the Elizabeth Thatcher Acampora Endowment, an outreach program to meet the needs of underserved youth and families in three community settings. Dr. Beresin served as a leader for many national organizations and has won a number of local and national teaching awards. He is the director of the year-long required Harvard Medical School third year course Patient Doctor III, that focuses on reflective practice, ethics, professionalism, and the patient-doctor relationship. He is Associate Editor and Media Editor for Academic Psychiatry and Associate Editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. He’s published numerous papers and chapters in a wide variety of topics.