Leadership & Center Staff
Directors
Judith G. Edersheim, JD, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Bruce H. Price, MD
Chief, Department of Neurology, McLean Hospital
Associate in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Executive Director
Francis Shen, JD, PhD
Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
Executive Director of Education and Outreach, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience
Managing Director
Nancy Gertner, JD, MA
Senior Lecturer of Law, Harvard Law School
Former Federal Judge, U.S. District of Massachusetts
Associate Managing Director
Robert Kinscherff, JD, PhD
Faculty, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (forensic psychology, Concentration in Children and Families of Adversity and Resilience) and Associate Vice President for Community Engagement, William James College
Chief Scientific Officer
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD
Director, Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory
University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University
Neuroscientist, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director of Law & Ethics
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD
Director, Master’s Program in Bioethics, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Psychiatrist, Law & Psychiatry Service and Consultation Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
