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Oliver Freudenreich, MD, Psychiatry, Boston, MA

OliverFreudenreichMD

Psychiatry Boston, MA

Psychosomatic Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology

Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program. Director of the MGH Fellowship in Public and Community Psychiatry. Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

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  • Office

    55 Fruit St
    Department of Psychiatry
    Boston, MA 02114
    Phone+1 617-912-7800
    Fax+1 617-723-3919

Summary

  • Dr. Oliver Freudenreich is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He serves as Co-Director of the MGH Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program and directs the MGH Fellowship in Public and Community Psychiatry.

    His academic interest is in the area of optimal psychopharmacological treatment for schizophrenia, including clozapine for refractory psychosis, the role of medical morbidity in schizophrenia, the integration of medicine and psychiatry, and treatment adherence. In addition to his clinical and clinical trial expertise in schizophrenia, Dr. Freudenreich provides psychiatric consultations for medically complex patients with serious mental illness or diagnostically difficult cases with psychosis. He is a deputy editor for the journal Psychosomatics. He has published extensively in his areas of interest and he wrote a handbook on psychotic disorders; a second edition was published in 2020. Dr. Freudenreich is an active teacher who lectures regularly at national meetings and at his home institution. At MGH, he was for many years the course director for the Department of Psychiatry’s monthly Morbidity and Mortality conference and Grand Rounds.

Education & Training

  • Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
    Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, 1995 - 1999
  • Ruprecht Karl University Faculty of Medicine
    Ruprecht Karl University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1994

Certifications & Licensure

  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 1999 - 2025
  • ME State Medical License
    ME State Medical License 2020 - 2025
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychosomatic Medicine

Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Other

Press Mentions

  • Karuna’s Experimental Schizophrenia Drug Succeeds in Advanced Study
    Karuna’s Experimental Schizophrenia Drug Succeeds in Advanced StudyAugust 8th, 2022
  • Classification of Schizoaffective Disorder: The History of a Vexing Concept
    Classification of Schizoaffective Disorder: The History of a Vexing ConceptMay 6th, 2020
  • Suicide in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
    Suicide in Schizophrenia Spectrum DisordersApril 6th, 2020
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