Sharon Weinstein, MD
Sharon Weinstein is the medical director and president of the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (NECCAP). She is a part-time assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and clinical associate in psychiatry in the Child and Adolescent Program at McLean Hospital. She practices child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Weinstein has been honored for her contributions to teaching and education, clinical practice, service, and advocacy. Awards include NECCAP’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Presidential Award, a Distinguished Life Fellowship by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and by AACAP, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society’s Outstanding Psychiatrist in Education, and teaching awards by HMS, APA, and AACAP. In spring 2019, Weinstein was featured in Yale Medicine Magazine’s article “A Well-Balanced life: Sharon Weinstein's long career of service.”
Weinstein has taught and supervised thousands of medical students at HMS and over 200 trainees at McLean Hospital. As NECCAP director of education, Weinstein has organized over 175 scientific programs. In her private practice, she specializes in areas including ADHD, learning disabilities, affective disorders, eating disorders, autism spectrum disorders, interface of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, and issues in contemporary families. She has consulted in the U.S. and in China, including to schools, hospitals, American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, Resolve, media, and the hit television show ER.
Weinstein received her MD from Yale University School of Medicine. She completed residency training in adult psychiatry and fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry at McLean Hospital and HMS. She graduated from Boston Psychoanalytic Society as an academic member in psychoanalysis with cases.