Dr. Gregory Fricchione has been on faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1993 and is the Mind Body Medicine Professor of Psychiatry at HMS. He first came to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 1982 as a Psychosomatic Medicine Fellow. Since July 2002 he has been Associate Chief of Psychiatry at MGH and was the founding director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine until 2017. In 2000, he joined the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, while on leave of absence from Harvard Medical School (HMS). While there he worked with former President Jimmy and former First Lady Mrs. Rosalynn Carter on public and international mental health issues and policy. Dr. Fricchione serves on the Mental Health Task Force of the Carter Center and on the Board of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving. He is the founding director and director emeritus of the MGH Chester M. Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry with educational and research sites in Africa, South America, the Middle East and Asia.

Dr. Fricchione received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1978. He is board certified in psychiatry and has had added qualifications in psychosomatic medicine and geriatric psychiatry in the past. He has taught in the medical schools at New York University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and at Emory University as well as at HMS. He is the author of over 350 publications and is a co-author of the MGH Handbook on General Hospital Psychiatry (2010), Catatonia: From Psychopathology to Neurobiology (2004), The Heart-Mind Connection (2005) and The Science of Stress (2016). He is also the author of a book from the Johns Hopkins University Press titled Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society: On the Nature and Uses of Attachment Solutions to Separation Challenges (2011).

In 2006 he became Director of the Benson Henry Institute (BHI) for Mind Body Medicine at MGH, succeeding Dr. Herbert Benson. In this role he directs a multi-disciplinary team that focuses on the clinical care of stress related non-communicable diseases and on research into ways to promote health and prevent these illnesses by lowering stress and enhancing resilience. The BHI is also heavily involved in education of the public in the benefits of whole person integrative health practices.