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Todd Griswold, MD Dr. Todd Griswold received his undergraduate education from Yale University with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (cum laude) and earned his M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He completed his psychiatry residency at the HMS program at The Cambridge Hospital and served as Chief Resident of the Psychiatric Emergency Service at the Cambridge Hospital. Since completing his psychiatry residency, he has dedicated much of his career to medical student and psychiatric education. During residency, he began teaching in the second-year Harvard Medical School (HMS) Psychiatry 700M.J Introduction to Psychopathology course and has continued participating in that course almost every semester since then. In his PGY 4 year, at the recommendation of Dr. Leston Havens (his mentor), he started teaching medical students in the HMS pre-clerkship psychiatry course and has continued to teach in the course for the last 32 years. He has been HMS Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry overseeing psychiatry education across the 4-year HMS curriculum, HMS Psychiatry Clerkship Director for the past 10 years, and led the initiative to further develop and integrate a robust Substance Use and Pain curriculum at HMS. Since 2017, he has been the Course Co-Director for the Psychiatry component of Mind, Brain, and Behavior course at HMS and continues to be the Committee Chair for the Psychiatry Clerkship Committee at Harvard Medical School. He has also been the psychiatry course co-director for the Psychiatry Core Clerkship at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and by 2009, was the clerkship director for psychiatry in the HMS-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (HMS-CIC). He is currently Psychopharmacology supervisor for PGY-3 Psychiatry residents at CHA and is clinical supervisor of Mindfulness Training for Primary Care groups and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy groups at CHA, supervising residents, psychology trainees, and social work fellows. Dr. Griswold has also been invited as presenter and/or speaker on medical student and psychiatry education for several conferences locally and nationally. For his excellence in teaching, he has been honored with numerous teaching awards, including the Alfred Margulies Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education at CHA; the Leston Havens Teaching Award, Department of Psychiatry, CHA; the Nancy A Roeske, MD Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Teaching, American Psychiatric Association; the Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award for medical student education in psychiatry, HMS; and the Sandra and Arnold Gold Award for Humanistic Teaching, HMS. Dr. Griswold’s clinical work has been based in public sector community psychiatry, mostly at Cambridge Health Alliance, and at Tewksbury Hospital and the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital. He has worked in outpatient, partial hospital, inpatient, and emergency settings. He is currently Medical Director at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance, where he works to integrate mindfulness into outpatient mental health treatment and has taught in the advanced clinical mindfulness fellowship program. He is the author of 20 publications from his research investigations and work on education. He is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), a member of the American Psychiatric Association, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry. In recognition of his outstanding achievement and dedication to Psychiatric Education, the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society is proud to honor Dr. Todd Griswold with the 2025 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Education. Education Award - Previous Awardees:
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