Eugene Beresin M.D., M.A.

Eugene V. Beresin, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received an M.A. in Philosophy and an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Executive Director of the MGH Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds. He is Director of the Elizabeth Thatcher Acampora Endowment, an outreach program to meet the needs of under-served youth and families in three community settings.

Beresin is Director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at The Massachusetts General Hospital. He was Director of Child and Adolescent Residency Training at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital from 1985-2013. He served as President of the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Psychiatry Residents in Training Examination (PRITE). He was elected as a Counselor-at-Large of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He was elected to the Board of Regents of the American College of Psychiatrists. He was elected President of the American College of Psychiatrists in 2023. He was director and creator of the year-long required third-year course, The Developing Physician: Lifelong Integration of Personal and Professional Growth with Sensitive, Compassionate Care, at Harvard Medical School from 2006-2023 that focuses on reflective practice, ethics, professionalism, and interpersonal skills as the students take their core clerkships and develop their identities as physicians.

Beresin is Deputy Editor and Media Editor for Academic Psychiatry. He has won a number of local and national teaching awards, including the Parker J. Palmer "Courage to Teach" Award in 2002, given annually by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to 10 Program Directors from all medical specialties. In 2004, he was awarded the American Psychiatric Association and National Institute of Mental Health Vestermark Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 2008, he was awarded the Bowis Award by the American College of Psychiatrists for outstanding service to and leadership in the College. In 2010, he was appointed a scholar in the Academy at Harvard Medical School. In 2010, he was awarded the Excellence in Reviewing Award by Academic Medicine, given to 14 of 794 reviewers for the Journal. In 2011, Beresin was awarded the Cynthia N. Kettyle Award for Medical Student Teaching by the Departments of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. In 2024, he was awarded the Massachusetts General Hospital Undergraduate Medical Education Lifetime Education Award. And in 2025, he was awarded The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Education Lifetime Service Award.

Beresin has consulted on a variety of television shows, including ER and Law and Order SVU. He was a consultant to the Emmy Award-winning HBO children's specials, Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales (2000), Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001 (2003), and Classical Baby (2005). He co-produced a Parenting Resource website for ABCNews.com. He was a script consultant and actor in the Chedd-Angier Production of Alan Alda’s Brains on Trial. Beresin has published numerous papers and chapters on a variety of topics, including graduate medical education, mental health and media, eating disorders, personality disorders, and child and adolescent psychiatric treatments.