Mark Pollack, MD, named Traumatic Stress Disorders Program Leader

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Dr. Mark Pollack has been named CIMIT Program Leader for Traumatic Stress Disorders, an area of study within the CIMIT Neurocluster. The CIMIT Traumatic Stress Disorders research program seeks to identify new methods to characterize and diagnose the underlying pathophysiology of traumatic stress disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to develop new therapies which reduce disabling symptoms to improve quality of life. He will also serve as the Traumatic Stress Disorder Research Director for the Homebase Program, an innovative partnership of Massachusetts General Hospital, the Red Sox Foundation, CIMIT and the VA Boston Healthcare System.

A world-renown leader in the field of psychiatry, Dr. Pollack also serves as Director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD in 1982 from New Jersey Medical School, and completed residency and fellowship training in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

“I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Pollack to the CIMIT Leadership team,” said Executive Director John Parrish, MD. “As a practicing clinician as well as researcher, Dr. Pollack brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in leading research collaborations in the application of cognitive-behavioral and pharmacologic interventions. Dr. Pollack will be instrumental in guiding CIMIT initiatives in this very important area of research.”

CIMIT is the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. A non-profit consortium of Boston-area teaching hospitals and engineering schools, CIMIT provides innovators with resources to explore, develop and implement novel technological solutions for today’s most urgent healthcare problems. Participants in the consortium are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Partners HealthCare and VA Boston Healthcare System.