Gregory L. Fricchione

Gregory L. Fricchione, MD, is Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and Director Emeritus of the Chester M. Pierce, MD, Division of Global Psychiatry, and Director Emeritus of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

He also serves as Co-Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health in the Department of Neurology at MGH.

He is the Benson Mind Body Medicine Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. From 2000 to 2002, he served as The Carter Center Mental Health Program Director for President and Mrs. Carter while on leave of absence from Harvard Medical School. He specializes in neuropsychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and for over 40 years has helped care for patients with severe medical, neurological and surgical illnesses as a CL psychiatrist. He has published more than 300 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) and the 2016 The Science of Stress (University of Chicago 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. Dr. Fricchione was the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine ACLP Hackett Award winner in 2017.