Shelly F. Greenfield

Shelly F. Greenfield is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Kristine M. Trustey Endowed Chair in Psychiatry and chief of the Division of Women’s Mental Health at McLean Hospital. Trained in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and epidemiology, she is a physician-scientist whose research focuses on gender differences in substance use disorders as well as in treatment and health services delivery.

While at Radcliffe, she is investigating the rising rates of substance use and substance-related health and social consequences in women and girls in the United States. She will use several methodologies to understand these trends, essential drivers of these changes, and potential clinical and public health approaches to overcoming barriers to prevention and treatment. Data from a community sample and innovative interdisciplinary approaches will inform this research.

Greenfield received a BA from Brown University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in health services. She completed psychiatry residency training at McLean Hospital. Supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she developed a group treatment for women with substance use disorders, the Women’s Recovery Group, now disseminated into clinical practice. Greenfield has received the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Society of Addiction Medicine, is a past president of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and served on the NIH National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse.