HARVARD Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences
🧠 Master Brain Health with Harvard's Top Experts
The concept of brain medicine aims to integrate clinical and neuroscientific perspectives across the various non-surgical specialties (e.g., neurology, psychiatry, neurorehabilitation) that care for and conduct research in people with brain disorders. This one-day CE activity accredited by Harvard Medical School will include pre-recorded lectures with a virtual live Q&A format. Speakers will include experts in behavioral neurology & neuropsychiatry, consultation liaison psychiatry, geriatric neurology and geriatric psychiatry, brain medicine, brain health, and neurorehabilitation, speaking on a broad array of assessment and management principles for individuals with complex brain disorders that negatively impact cognition, behavior, emotion, perception, social cognition, and sensorimotor functions. Content will include topics such as: brain medicine and brain heath, the importance of the biopsychosocial formulation, and how to build integrative and collaborative care models within clinical neuroscience programs.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Apply the biopsychosocial formulation to patients with complex brain disorders to work towards a precision medicine (patient-centered) clinical approach.
- Develop integrated and collaborative care models across the clinical neurosciences.
- Apply integrated brain medicine principles in various complex brain disorders.
Let’s take a look at the topics
Here are the topics covered in the Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences course based on the provided information:
| Time | Session Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00–8:40 AM | Brain Medicine: Addressing Biopsychosocial Complexity | David L. Perez, MD, MMSc |
| 8:40–9:20 AM | Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Disease: State of the Science | Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD |
| 9:20–9:30 AM | Q&A | David L. Perez, MD, MMSc; Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD |
| 9:30–9:45 AM | Break | |
| 9:45–10:25 AM | How to Build Integrative and Collaborative Care Programs | Jeffrey Huffman, MD |
| 10:25–11:05 AM | Disorders of Gut-Brain Interactions: Integrating Care | Elizabeth Madva, MD |
| 11:05–11:45 AM | Embedding Psychiatric Care within Neurology | Caitlin Adams, MD |
| 11:45 AM–12:10 PM | Q&A | Jeffrey Huffman, MD; Elizabeth Madva, MD; Caitlin Adams, MD |
| 12:10–1:10 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:10–1:50 PM | The Neural Circuitry of Chronic Pain | Tor Wager, PhD |
| 1:50–2:30 PM | Psychosocial Interventions for Chronic Pain – What's the Evidence | Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD |
| 2:30–3:10 PM | Functional Restoration: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Enhance Function and Manage Pain | Eve Kennedy, OTR/L |
| 3:10–3:25 PM | Q&A | Tor Wager, PhD; Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD; Eve Kennedy, OTR/L Moderated by David L. Perez, MD, MMSc |
| 3:25–3:40 PM | Break | |
| 3:40–4:20 PM | Frontotemporal Dementia: Translating Neuroscience to the Clinic | Bradford Dickerson, MD, MMSc |
| 4:20–5:00 PM | Cerebellar Cognitive-Affective Syndrome: Translating Neuroscience to the Clinic | Jeremy Schmahmann, MD |
| 5:00–5:10 PM | Q&A | Bradford Dickerson, MD, MMSc; Jeremy Schmahmann, MD Moderated by Caitlin Adams, MD |
Who you will learn from
🎓 Course Directors
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
| Name | Title / Affiliation |
|---|---|
| David L. Perez, MD, MMSc |
Associate Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of Behavioral Neurology & Integrated Brain Medicine Director, Functional Neurological Disorder Unit Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Caitlin Adams, MD |
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Staff Psychiatrist, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
🧑🏫 2025 Faculty
| Name | Title / Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Bradford Dickerson, MD, MMSc |
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Director, MGH Frontotemporal Disorders Unit Leader, MA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Imaging Core Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Jeffrey Huffman, MD |
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Director, Cardiac Psychiatry Research Program Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Eve Kennedy, OTR/L |
Clinical Supervisor, Pain Management and Integrative Medicine Programs Spaulding Rehabilitation - Medford |
| Elizabeth Madva, MD |
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Associate Program Director, MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program Staff Psychiatrist, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, MGH |
| Jeremy Schmahmann, MD |
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Director, MGH Ataxia Center & Lab for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD |
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Director, McCance Center for Brain Health Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD |
Rovee Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Co-Director, Mass General Neurosciences Founder and Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Tor Wager, PhD |
Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Dartmouth College Director, Brain Imaging Center and Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience Lab |
🧠 Who Should Enroll?
This course is designed for healthcare professionals who are committed to advancing integrative, patient-centered care in brain health. It’s especially relevant for those managing patients with complex neurological, psychiatric, or behavioral conditions.
✔️ Specialty Physicians
Neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, and rehabilitation physicians seeking the latest in brain medicine, functional neurology, and biopsychosocial strategies for patient care.
✔️ Primary Care Physicians
Family medicine and internal medicine doctors aiming to improve interdisciplinary coordination and early identification of complex brain disorders.
✔️ Psychologists & Neuropsychologists
Practitioners looking to apply cutting-edge neuroscience in assessment and intervention for cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dysfunctions.
✔️ Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants
Providers in outpatient and hospital settings who want to expand their understanding of brain-behavior relationships and integrative management models.
✔️ Nurses
Especially those in neurology, psychiatry, geriatrics, or rehab settings, who want to deepen their understanding of functional brain disorders and collaborative care.
✔️ Social Workers & Care Coordinators
Professionals who support individuals and families affected by brain disorders and who wish to bring a neuroscience-informed lens to biopsychosocial care planning.
Why This Course?
Complex brain disorders don’t fit neatly into a single specialty.
That’s why this course exists — to break down silos and bridge the gap between neurology, psychiatry, neurorehabilitation, and primary care.
Whether you’re navigating the overlap of chronic pain, cognitive decline, emotional dysregulation, or sensorimotor impairments, this one-day intensive program equips you with real-world, interdisciplinary frameworks for care.
Led by Harvard Medical School faculty and Massachusetts General Hospital experts, this course gives you access to:
✅ The latest in neuroscience-informed, biopsychosocial models of care
✅ Practical strategies for building collaborative brain health programs
✅ Evidence-based approaches to disorders like Alzheimer’s, chronic pain, frontotemporal dementia, gut-brain conditions, and more
You’ll walk away with actionable tools to elevate your clinical practice — and better outcomes for the patients you serve.
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