Matcheri Keshavan, MD

Matcheri Keshavan, MD

Matcheri Keshavan, MD

 Stanley R Cobb Professor and Academic Head of Psychiatry,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)
Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC); Harvard Medical School

 Dr. Keshavan is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Harvard Medical School (HMS), a position he assumed in April 2008. He is also the academic head of psychiatry at BIDMC, and a senior psychiatric advisor for the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Since September 2017, he serves as the Director of the Commonwealth Research Center at BIDMC.  Dr. Keshavan received his medical training in Mysore, India (where he graduated at the top of his University), and his psychiatric training in Bangalore (India), Vienna, London, and Detroit. In 1986, Dr. Keshavan joined the faculty at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA. He was appointed full tenured Professor in 1998. Between 2004 and 2008, he served as Tenured Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Since october 2019, he has assumed the position of Academic Char of the BIDMC Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Keshavan is closely involved in research in neurobiology of psychosis, especially as it pertains to first episode psychotic disorders. His research has resulted in over 700 publications to date, including over 550 peer-reviewed papers, and 4 books. He has received several awards including the Gaskell Gold Medal of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1985); Nancy Roschke Certificate for Teaching Excellence of the American Psychiatric Association in 1993; Teaching awards at the Departments of Psychiatry in Pittsburgh (1992, 1994, and 2004), Wayne State University (2008) and at Harvard (2011); the Research Scientist Development Award from NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health); the 2003 NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) of Pennsylvania Psychiatrist of the Year Award, the 2014 Stuart Hauser mentoring award at HMS, the 2013 Gerard Hogarty Award for Research from the University of Pittsburgh the 2016 Kempf award of the American Psychiatric Association and the NAMI 2019 research award. . He is a distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Canada; and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.

Dr. Keshavan is the Editor-in-Chief of Schizophenia Research (Elsevier) and serves on the editorial board for journals such as Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Bipolar disorder and Asian J psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Keshavan is often invited to speak at national and international conferences. He has several funded grants. His main areas of research include the neurodevelopmental basis of schizophrenia, neuroimaging, biomarkers and early intervention. He teaches HMS medical students and residents, and co-directs the neuroscience, critical thinking and public psychiatry courses for Harvard BIDMC residents.