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Ann K. Shinn, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Belmont, MA, United States

Dr. Shinn is a psychiatrist in the McLean Hospital Psychotic Disorders Division, the Director of Clinical Research of the McLean Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She earned her BA in neuroscience and behavior from Columbia University, MPH from the UCLA School of Public Health, and MD from the UCSF School of Medicine. She graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and earned a Master of Medical Science (MMSc) degree in clinical and translational research from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Clinical Investigator Training Program. She has provided clinical care and administrative leadership as a founding co-medical director of the McLean OnTrack first-episode psychosis program (2013-2018); has received NIMH funding to conduct neuroimaging research in psychotic disorders; serves as the Psychosis Section Editor for the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry; and teaches medical students (course director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program’s preclinical psychiatry course) and psychiatry residents. In addition to investigating various aspects of psychotic disorders, Dr. Shinn’s research interests include topics at the intersection of trauma and psychosis. Dr. Shinn has collaborated with experts in trauma-related disorders at McLean to report on the high prevalence, phenomenology, and brain connectivity patterns of voice-hearing experiences among women with PTSD and dissociative disorders. In other work, Dr. Shinn has shown evidence of high test-retest reliability in self-reports of childhood physical and emotional abuse among people with psychosis. Dr. Shinn and her colleagues have also found greater self-reported histories of childhood sexual abuse as well as structural brain differences among people with psychotic disorders with vs. without histories of voice hearing.

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