Psychiatry Department Leadership Announcements

Vice Chair for Research

Anthony J. Rothschild, MD

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Anthony J. Rothschild, MD as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry.  Tony is a proud Princeton Alumnus who attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He was a resident in Psychiatry and Chief Resident in Psychopharmacology at McLean Hospital.  At McLean he went on to become a Research Fellow in Neurochemistry and a CIBA-Geigy Fellow in Affective Disorders as he laid the groundwork for what would become a career-long focus in mood disorders, publishing 5 books and over 140 peer-reviewed papers to date. Tony came to UMass in 1996 and became a tenured professor of Psychiatry and the occupant of the Irving S. and Betty Brudnick Endowed Chair of Psychiatry. Dr. Rothschild is widely known as a leading international expert on psychotic depression.  He is a sought-after mentor who has helped a large number of medical students, residents, and faculty members launch their academic careers. As those of you who regularly attend our grand rounds series know, Tony does a spectacular job of providing continuing education to all of us by carefully leading the planning of and curating the grand rounds series.  As Vice Chair for Research, Tony will oversee our department’s research efforts, making sure we are well-represented on medical school research committees, looking for ways to mentor trainees and junior faculty seeking research careers, and helping the department strategically grow its research efforts.

 

Vice Chair, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Yael Dvir, MD

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Yael Dvir, MD as Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  A graduate of the Hadassah Medical School at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Dr. Dvir completed the UMass Integrated Program in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  She went on to join our faculty as co-director of the Psychiatry Clerkship, helped develop the 15-week Psychiatry-Family Medicine-Pediatrics “Care of Families” clerkship, and has become a popular teacher in both the Clerkship and the UMMS second year Mind Brain Behavior Course.  In 2015, she became Clerkship Director and has made a number of curricular and organizational changes in preparation for a 50% increase in class size that have been very well received by the students.  Dr. Dvir had worked as a child psychiatrist at Community Healthlink, Inc. and has been involved in research through the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopment Initiative (CANDI) lab, focusing on mood disorders and trauma in youth, currently serving as Director of the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CANDO) Mood and Psychotic Disorders Clinic. We are delighted that Dr. Dvir will be joining the Department Leadership group both as Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Clinical Services, while continuing to practice and teach in the CANDO clinic and co-direct the Clerkship with Dr. Anya Bernstein.