John Benjamin Herman MD

Dr. Herman is Associate Chief of the Department of Psychiatry and the Distinguished Scholar for Medical Psychiatry at MGH. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Herman was the Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, overseeing the Commonwealth's 31,000 licensed physicians and the safety and quality programs of its 200 hospitals.

In 1984, following his residency, Dr. Herman joined the staff of the MGH Psychopharmacology and Addiction clinics. Until 2003, for 14 years Dr. Herman directed the Department’s postgraduate education division, Harvard Medical School’s most successful National and International CME program. Between 1991 and 2000, he was Director of Adult Psychiatry Residency Training at MGH. Dr. Herman is past President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training.