Gregory Fricchione, MD, is Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and Co-Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health in the Department of Neurology at Mass General Hospital.  He is the Mind Body Medicine Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Fricchione serves as Senior Medical Advisor for the MGH/Red Sox Foundation Home Base Program for service members and veterans and is Director Emeritus of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine and The Chester Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry. 

Dr. Fricchione specializes in neuropsychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and for 40 years has helped care for patients with severe medical, neurological, and surgical illnesses. He has published more than 230 publications and has authored or co-authored 6 books. He is also the medical editor of the 2020 Harvard Medical School Special Report on Stress Management. 

Dr. Fricchione’s research interests include the study of the catatonic syndrome, the neurophysiology of stress and resilience and how the comparative neurology of brain evolution illuminates our concepts of health and illness and medical caregiving. His two most recent books are The Science of Stress (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and “Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society: On the Nature and Uses of Attachment Solutions for Separation Challenges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).