Sharon Weinstein receives MPS educator award

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Classmate Sharon Weinstein, MD, has received the Massachusetts Psychiatry Society (MPS) 2018 Award for Outstanding Psychiatrist in Education for her extensive, multifaceted teaching and program development in child and adolescent psychiatry. Sharon has given hundreds of presentations at the local, regional, and national levels. At Harvard Medical School, where she is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, and at McLean Hospital, she has taught, supervised, and lectured to thousands of medical students, residents, and other trainees. She has organized innovative courses, including 168 symposia for the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (NECCAP).

 

Sharon earned her MD from Yale Medical School. She completed adult and child psychiatric training at McLean Hospital and academic training at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.  She is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her numerous honors include NECCAP’s first Lifetime Achievement Award for “outstanding leadership and lifetime contributions to education, clinical practice and advocacy in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.” Sharon practices child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry in Lexington, MA.