Steven A. Rasmussen, MD, MMS is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School. He has been repeatedly listed among the Best Doctors in America as well as the most Highly Cited for Psychiatry.
Dr. Rasmussen was a member of the second graduating class of the PLME program and received his MMS and MD from Brown Medical School in 1977. He completed his residency in psychiatry at Yale in 1983. Following a two year obligation with the National Health Services Corps in North Kingdom Vermont, Dr. Rasmussen joined the Brown faculty and Butler Hospital in 1983. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and was previously the Medical Director at Butler Hospital from 1998 - 2012. Dr. Rasmussen is an internationally recognized expert in the course and treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). More recently his primary research interest has been in neurosurgical approaches to intractable OCD and depression and the neurocircuitry of OCD. He is currently funded by four R01's from the NIMH including studies of the longitudinal course of OCD, neurosurgical approaches to treatment, understanding the neurocircuitry underlying DBS effects in OCD, and a genome wide association study of OCD. He is the author or coauthor of over 100 peer reviewed publications and has given many invited presentations on the subject of OCD around the world. He has been a leader in developing bridges between campus-based and hospital-based brain science faculty at Brown University.

Dr. Brown is Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. He has a particular interest in HIV and risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults. He also conducts clinical treatment trials to reduce substance use and depression for those living with HIV through AIDS Trials networks and is developing and testing an iPhone game to improve medical adherence for adolescents and young adults lving with HIV. In addition, his research promotes engagement and adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis for MSM in the South. He is Associate Director of the Providence - Boston Center for AIDS Research and the Program Director of a NIMH T32 postdoctoral training program in HIV biobehavioral research.

Tracey Guthrie, MD, is the Residency Training Director for the Brown University General Psychiatry Residency Program. She is Professor, Clinician Educator, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Professor of Medical Science, Clinician Educator.

Dr. Guthrie graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She continued her training in the Brown Psychiatry Residency Training Program where she was Chief Resident. She joined the Brown faculty in 1999. Dr. Guthrie has been involved with medical student education at Brown since 2002 and psychiatry residency training since 2005. She has served in many leadership roles within the Department including Associate Clerkship Director and Clerkship Site Director in Psychiatry for Brown medical students; Assistant and Associate Residency Training Director in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Director of the Residency Continuity Clinic. Dr. Guthrie has received several teaching awards, including: The Outstanding Teaching Award, both in Medical Education and in General Psychiatry; The Innovation in Medical Education Award from the Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine Training Program; The Psychiatry Resident Award to Talented and Learned Educators (PRATTLE award); The Triple Board Program Teaching and Advocacy Award; and the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

Dr. Guthrie serves as a Presidential Appointee to the Executive Council for the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (2019-present).

Dr. Hunt is Program Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and the Combined Program in Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Brown University. He is Deputy Division Director for the DPHB Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Director of Inpatient and Intensive Services at Bradley Hospital. His areas of interest include pediatric mood disorders, suicidal behavior, and training and education. Dr. Hunt has been a co-investigator on a number of research grants including the NIMH funded Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth study and currently the Predicting Adult Outcomes in Bipolar Youth (PROBY) study.  He serves on several national committees including AACAP, ACGME, and the ABPN. He is also the Senior Editor of the Brown Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Newsletter. Dr. Hunt graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin after receiving a BA from Carroll College of Montana (Magna cum laude) and Masters of Science in Biology at Montana State University. He completed general and child and adolescent psychiatry residency training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (Now Drexel University).

Dr. McQuaid is Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Professor of Pediatrics. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology (honors) from Yale University, and her PhD in Child Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver.  After her internship at the Children's National Medical Center, Dr. McQuaid completed a postdoctoral fellowship in child mental health research at Brown.  

Dr. McQuaid conducts her research and clinical activities at Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children's Hospital, where she is the Director of Child Psychology.  Her work focuses on pediatric disease management and adherence to medical regimens in the context of health disparities.  Dr. McQuaid has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1998.

Dr. McQuaid is Director of the Divison of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (DPHB) at Brown. In this role and as the Vice Chair of the DPHB, she is the academic leader of the psychologists in the department, and responsible for the oversight of Clinical Psychology training at Brown. 

Dr. Tyrka received her MD and PhD in medicine and psychology through a combined program at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a psychiatry residency at Brown Medical School and further research training in clinical neuroscience at the Mood Disorders Research Program and Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience at Butler Hospital and Brown University. Dr. Tyrka is Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown, Chief Scientific Officer at Care New England, and a psychiatrist at Butler Hospital where she leads the Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Neuroscience. Her program of research is focused on discovering the social, behavioral and molecular mechanisms of risk and resilience in children and adults with a history of early adversity and trauma.  Dr. Tyrka is dedicated to mentoring and training; in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, she is Director of Research Training  in the psychiatry residency, and PI of the NIMH-funded R25 Research Training Program. Tyrka is also Co-Director of the Center for Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR), which includes a COBRE STAR Center and a STAR Research Postdoctoral Fellowship T32 program.