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Job Summary
Associate Director of Education and Training
McLean Center for Metabolic Psychiatry
McLean Hospital | Mass General Brigham | Harvard Medical School
Position: 0.5 FTE (Part-Time), with opportunities to combine with additional responsibilities for a full-time (1.0 FTE) appointment.
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts
Academic Appointment: As appropriate based on qualifications and institutional requirements
Position Overview
McLean Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham and a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, seeks an accomplished clinical educator, scholar, and academic leader to serve as Associate Director of Clinical Education and Training for the newly established McLean Center for Metabolic Psychiatry.
This position offers a unique opportunity to help shape the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry and advance the integration of mental and metabolic healthcare. The Center seeks to advance scientific discovery, develop evidence-informed clinical approaches, and educate healthcare professionals about the relationships among metabolism, brain function, and mental health.
The Associate Director will play a central leadership role in developing clinical guidelines, educational curricula, and professional training programs. A major responsibility will be leading the development and writing of multidisciplinary clinical guidelines and treatment protocols, translating emerging scientific evidence into practical recommendations for clinical care.
The Associate Director will also oversee educational initiatives for medical students, residents, fellows, and other clinical trainees, as well as continuing education and professional development for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, dietitians, health coaches, and other healthcare professionals.
Working closely with the Center's Directors and collaborating with clinical and academic leaders at McLean Hospital, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, and MH², the Associate Director will help establish a comprehensive educational and clinical training infrastructure for metabolic psychiatry.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced medical or health professions educator with a strong foundation in evidence-based clinical practice, demonstrated research and scientific writing experience, and the organizational and leadership skills necessary to bring complex, multidisciplinary academic projects to successful completion.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Guideline Development and Scholarly Leadership
• Lead the development, writing, and dissemination of evidence-informed clinical guidelines and treatment protocols for metabolic psychiatry and integrated mental and metabolic healthcare.
• Organize and lead multidisciplinary expert working groups involving psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, dietetics, health coaching, and other relevant disciplines.
• Oversee literature reviews, critical appraisal of scientific evidence, and the synthesis of research findings into practical clinical recommendations.
• Serve as a lead writer and editor of clinical guidelines, consensus documents, treatment protocols, and related scholarly publications.
• Coordinate contributions from multiple authors and subject-matter experts, establish timelines, manage revisions, and ensure timely completion of high-quality written products.
• Develop both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary clinical recommendations…