Biography
Gregory Fricchione MD has been on faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1993 and is a Professor of Psychiatry at HMS. He first came to MGH in 1982 as one of George Murray’s sixth class of psychosomatic medicine fellows. Since July 2002 he has been Associate Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine. He directs a large staff of attending psychiatrists and psychosomatic medicine fellows taking care of the psychiatric problems of medically and surgically ill patients. He is also Director of the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at MGH. Dr Fricchione is the founding Director of the Chester M. Pierce, MD, Division of Global Psychiatry, which since July 2009 has been directed by David C. Henderson, MD.
Fricchione received his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine in 1978. He is board certified in psychiatry and has added qualifications in psychosomatic medicine and geriatric psychiatry. He has taught in the medical schools at New York University, Stony Brook University of NY, the University of Auckland in New Zealand and at Emory University as well as at Harvard Medical School. From 1993 to 2000 he served as the Director of the Medical Psychiatry Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During a 2000-2002 leave of absence from HMS, Dr Fricchione served as Director of the Mental Health Program at The Carter Center in Atlanta, GA. He has published many articles on a wide range of psychiatric medicine topics including the recognition and management of the catatonic syndrome and on the interface of psychiatry and cardiology.
Fricchione is the author of a new book from Johns Hopkins University Press titled: Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society. On the Nature and Use of Attachment Solutions to Separation Challenges. He has also co-authored The MGH Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry and The Heart-Mind Connection.