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Mr. Robart began his career at McLean Hospital in 1977 while attending graduate school at Boston University. During his thirty five years at McLean, Mr. Robart has held significant leadership roles in both clinical and administrative positions. His work has focused on developing and implementing...

Fernando Rodriguez-Villa, MD is the medical director of the Short Term Unit, North in the Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders. His main areas of interest include mood disorders, suicide, college mental health, medical education, stigma reduction and cross-cultural psychiatry. He serves on...

Hannah Lawrence, PhD, graduated with her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Maine, completing her internship at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research examines the role of mental imagery in the etiology and treatment of mood disorders. She has a...

Jennifer Keller, BSN, RN, joined the team at Fernside, a McLean Signature Addiction Recovery Program, in 2014. She worked first as a staff nurse before transitioning to her current role as nurse manager. In her position, Ms. Keller facilitates groups focused on topics such as preventing addiction...

Omotola T’Sarumi, MD, is a psychiatrist in charge in McLean Hospital’s Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. T’Sarumi completed her medical degree at Xavier University School of Medicine and is fellowship-trained in addiction psychiatry. In her current role, Dr. T’Sarumi manages patients...

Ellen S. Gillespie, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in the Department of Social Work at McLean Hospital. She completed a one year fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 2016 and is currently a student in the...

Josephine S. Au, PhD, provides dialectical behavior therapy to adolescents who struggle with emotion dysregulation. She works closely with patients and their parents, with the goal of improving teens’ relationships and creating an environment conducive to emotional growth. Her research broadly...

Esther Tung, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program. Her clinical and research interests include anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorder and DBT, suicidal ideation, and Asian American mental health

Erin Clement, LICSW, attended Merrimack College where she received a BA in Psychology in 2003. She began working at McLean Hospital in 2003 as a community residential counselor at the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program. In 2005, Ms. Clement began working as a clinical educator in...

Robert P. Drozek, LICSW, is an individual and group psychotherapist at McLean Hospital, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders, trauma and dissociative disorders, and addiction. Mr. Drozek serves as a therapist in the Gunderson Outpatient Program, a therapist and supervisor in the...

Elsa Ronningstam, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in the Gunderson Outpatient Program and the Adult Outpatient Services at McLean Hospital, and an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. She is also a psychoanalyst, a member of the...

Matthew A. Robinson, PhD, is program director of the McLean Hospital’s Trauma Continuum of Care at the Hill Center and an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He provides individual, group, and couples treatment for trauma and dissociative disorders. As...

Jenna M. Traynor, PhD, conducts research out of McLean Hospital’s Gunderson Institute for Personality Disorders. She is interested in the application of brain imaging and neurocognitive assessment to explore prospective biomarkers of treatment response and suicide risk in individuals who are at...

Dr. Nora Gerardi is a licensed psychologist with expertise in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). She has extensive experience with providing these evidence-based interventions for a range of disorders, including across the anxiety and mood disorder spectrums...

Since 2000, Ralph J. Buonopane, PhD, has led the McLean-Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton. The program brings together a team of colleagues from the two hospitals to meet the needs of youth in severe psychiatric crisis. Long recognized...