DIRECTOR
Joseph J. Taylor, MD, PhD is a neuroscientist and board-certified psychiatrist with over a decade of experience in brain stimulation. He obtained his MD and PhD in Neuroscience (mentor: Mark S. George, MD) in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Medical University of South Carolina (2007-2015). Next, Dr. Taylor completed psychiatry residency as a member of the Neuroscience Research Training Program at Yale University School of Medicine (2015-2019), where he also served as Chief Resident of the Interventional Psychiatry Service and Program-Wide Chief Resident. Thereafter, he completed a Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Clinical Neuroscience Fellowship in the Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2019-2020) and a Dupont Warren Fellowship at Harvard Medical School (2020-2022). Dr. Taylor has been a core faculty member of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics since it launched (2020)
Dr. Taylor’s clinical and research expertise is in interventional psychiatry, an emerging subspeciality in which procedural treatments are used for psychiatric illnesses that have not improved with routine psychotherapy and medications. Most of his research focuses on deriving and testing brain circuit targets for brain stimulation or neurosurgical ablation. Throughout his career, Dr. Taylor has received funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation, the Baszucki Group, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Mass General Brigham (MGB).
Dr. Taylor serves in many leadership roles. Locally, he is Medical Director of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Director of Clinical Trials in the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics. He also serves as Assistant Program Director of the BWH and HMS Psychiatry Residency Program and Co-Director of the Research Track within that program. Nationally and internationally, Dr. Taylor is an active member of many scientific organizations and serves in several leadership roles related to brain stimulation.
Research Assistants
Leanna Bomer, BA
Emma Jones, BA
Marina Kare, BS
Lauren Sanderson, BA
Residents and Fellows
Anjali Chandra, MD
STUDENTS
Joshua Silbersweig
Brandeis University
Collaborators
Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics
Raymond D. Adams Distinguished Chair in Neurology
Kaye Family Director, Psychiatric Brain Stimulation Program
Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Shan H. Siddiqi, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Psychiatric Neuromodulation Research
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Leo Chen, MBBS, MPsych, PhD, FRANZCP, AFRACMA
Consultant Psychiatrist, Alfred Mental and Addiction Health
Director, Postgraduate Psychiatry Training, Alfred Health
Head, Brain Stimulation and Psychopharmacology Research Units, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc)
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Central Clinical School, Monash University
Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology | Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratory of Translational Neuroimaging
Director, Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center Data Organization Collaborative Service (TNC DoCS)
Boston Children’s Hospital
Lauren Breithaupt Langston, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Joji Suzuki, MD
Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital