Dr. John Halpern is a practicing psychiatrist physician who spent more than 20 years of his career at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he was the director of the Laboratory for Integrative Psychiatry, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at McLean Hospital and also was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. During this academic period, he provided supervision and training on psychiatry and addiction psychiatry within various Harvard Medical School-affiliated training programs. Dr. Halpern is a leading expert (top 5%) on psychiatry and substance dependence drug development and research review for the Gerson Lehrman Group. In addition to his work with Mon Ethos, He is frequently sought out as an invited lecturer and as a forensic expert. Dr. Halpern and his work have been featured in leading publications such as Newsweek, National Geographic, Discover Magazine, Wired, The New York Times, and numerous medical journals
Dr. John Halpern is a practicing psychiatrist physician who spent more than 20 years of his career at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he was the director of the Laboratory for Integrative Psychiatry, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at McLean Hospital and also was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. During this academic period, he provided supervision and training on psychiatry and addiction psychiatry within various Harvard Medical School-affiliated training programs. Dr. Halpern is a leading expert (top 5%) on psychiatry and substance dependence drug development and research review for the Gerson Lehrman Group. In addition to his work with Mon Ethos, He is frequently sought out as an invited lecturer and as a forensic expert. Dr. Halpern and his work have been featured in leading publications such as Newsweek, National Geographic, Discover Magazine, Wired, The New York Times, and numerous medical journals. Dr. Halpern has received numerous awards and grants, including an Original Research Grant (RO1) from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Halpern is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and maintains a private practice for adult psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. He completed Psychiatry Residency at Harvard Longwood and a 3-year Fellowship in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Research at McLean’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center. He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and M.D. from The State University of New York Science Center at Brooklyn, College of Medicine.