Ann K. Shinn, MD, MPH
About Ann
As a physician-researcher, Ann K. Shinn, MD, MPH, works to improve the understanding and treatment of psychosis spectrum disorders. She has received federal funding to investigate the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and related psychoses using neuroimaging.
At McLean, she director of Clinical Research for the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program and is an investigator in the Laboratory for Early Psychosis (LEAP), where her research activities build on her prior experience as a founding co-medical director (2013-2018) of McLean OnTrack, an intensive outpatient program specializing in the treatment of first episode psychosis.
Dr. Shinn is dedicated to teaching and mentoring junior colleagues. She teaches psychiatry residents about early stages of psychosis and bipolar disorder. She is the course director of the Introduction to Clinical Psychiatry and Psychopathology course for second-year medical students in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Program, and also serves as an MD advisor to HST medical students.
In addition to conducting research and teaching, Dr. Shinn engages in editorial activities as the Psychosis Section editor for the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
