Towards a Future of Healthy Minds: Building Resilience in Children and Families with Gene Beresin, MD, MA

Mandy Shewfelt

Gene Beresin, MD, MA is executive director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital, a full professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and senior educator in child and adolescent psychiatry at Mass General. Dr. Beresin has won a number of local and national teaching awards, including the American Psychiatric Association and National Institute of Mental Health Vestermark Award for Outstanding Teaching. He has published numerous papers and chapters on a variety of topics, including graduate medical education, mental health and media, eating disorders, personality disorders, and child and adolescent psychiatric treatments. Dr. Beresin is also deputy editor and media editor for Academic Psychiatry, as well as Advisory Board Member for GAINS.