Food for Thought – August 2020

Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in late life and in Alzheimer’s Disease, with Dr. Jennifer Gatchel, MD PhD

Dr. Jennifer R. Gatchel obtained her MD/PhD from Baylor College of Medicine working with Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi studying molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration. She graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from her medical school class, and received the Hilde Bruch Award for highest honors in Psychiatry. She was subsequently a Chief Resident in Psychopharmacology during her Psychiatry residency training in the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Program. She went on to complete the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical Fellowship, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at HMS and an Assistant Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at McLean Hospital.