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Oliver Freudenreich, M.D.
Co-director of the MGH Psychosis Clinical and Research Program
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Biography
Dr. Oliver Freudenreich, M.D., FACLP, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), serves as co-director of the MGH Psychosis Clinical and Research Program, and directs the MGH Fellowship in Public and Community Psychiatry. His academic interest lies in the area of optimal psychopharmacological treatment for schizophrenia, including the development of innovative treatments and management of treatment-resistant psychosis.
Dr. Freudenreich provides psychiatric consultations for medically complex patients with serious mental illness and for diagnostically difficult cases with psychosis. He also serves on local and national committees related to disaster preparedness. He has published extensively in his areas of interest and has written a handbook on psychotic disorders; its second edition was published in 2020. He teaches and speaks on a regular basis at international and national meetings.
His recent awards include the MGH Department of Psychiatry Clinical Excellence Award and the 2022 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for the Public Sector from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.