Milissa L. Kaufman, MD, PhD
Dr. Kaufman is a psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. At McLean Hospital, she is the Director of the Initiative for Trauma Research, Training and Care. She also is the Medical Director at the Hill Center for Women and the Adult Outpatient Trauma Clinic.
Dr. Kaufman completed her doctoral training with Dr. Terry Keane at the National Center for PTSD. Then, after graduating from Boston University’s combined MD/PhD Program, she trained with Dr. James Chu within the MGH/McLean Hospital psychiatry residency program. She has 25 years of experience in the assessment and treatment of trauma-spectrum and dissociative disorders. She has published widely in these areas.
Currently, she serves as a principal investigator or a co-investigator on various studies designed to further our understanding of the neurobiology of PTSD and dissociative identity disorder. Her research utilizes a multimodal approach involving sophisticated psychometric assessment paired with neuroimaging, psychophysiology, genetic, and neurocognitive techniques. She and her colleagues at McLean Hospital have received both philanthropic funding and federal funding from the National Institute of Mental Health to study biomarkers of dissociation in traumatized individuals.
Dr. Kaufman has been honored to receive numerous national and local awards for her work as a clinician, as a researcher, and as an educator. She is the former Associate Training Director for the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and currently serves as their Director of Trauma Psychiatry Didactics curriculum.