The Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service includes clinical care, teaching, and supervision on a busy service that sees 2500 Emergency Department and 1000 Inpatient Medical-Surgical consultations annually. The service is a major teaching site for Harvard Medical School and the BIDMC Harvard Psychiatry Residency Training Program and is home to an active Consultation-Liaison Fellowship. The service is a multidisciplinary team, which includes psychiatric liaison nurses, social workers, and licensed mental health clinicians in addition to medical students, residents, and fellows. Certification (or eligibility) in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is preferred.

The Interventional Psychiatry Service at BIDMC cares for medical and psychiatric inpatients, as well as a diverse outpatient population referred from across Massachusetts and neighboring states. Clinical services include ECT, TMS, and esketamine, with the potential to participate in an expanding academic interventional psychiatry service. Psychiatrists work alongside anesthesiologists, neurologists, nurses, psychiatry residents, medical students, and research staff in a collaborative environment dedicated to excellence in patient care, education, and innovation. For those interested in the Interventional Psychiatry role, competence in ECT is required. A Harvard Medical School appointment at the rank of Instructor, Assistant Professor or Associate Professor would be commensurate with the record of accomplishments.

Responsibilities May Include:

• Providing comprehensive evaluation and management of inpatient and outpatient ECT patients, including individuals with severe and treatment-resistant mood disorders, psychotic disorders, catatonia, and complex psychiatric and medical comorbidities.
• Administering evidence-based ECT care within a multidisciplinary academic medical center, collaborating closely with psychiatry, anesthesia, nursing, and medical subspecialty teams
• Participating in the clinical education and academic activities, including supervision and teaching of psychiatry trainees, engagement in quality improvement initiatives, and advancement of innovative approaches in neuromodulation care.

Pay Range:

The base pay range reflects what Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMFP) reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this role at the time of posting and may be modified from time to time. Actual compensation within this range may be determined based on several factors, including academic appointment, work experience, specialty training, geography of work location, anticipated productivity, FTE basis, and role expectations. In addition to base compensation, this role may be eligible for performance-based incentives, which may include bonuses for productivity and quality HMFP also offers a comprehensive and generous employee benefits program to eligible employees, including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement plan(s) with employer contributions.