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Katherine Burdick, PhD

Katherine Burdick, PhD, is the Jonathan F. Borus, MD Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry and the Vice Chair for Research in Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. She is the Director of the Mood and Psychosis Research Program at BWH and is a Professor at Harvard Medical School. She also serves as Scientific Director for the Integrated Network arm of the new non-profit research foundation Breakthrough Discovery for thriving with Bipolar Disorders (‘BD-squared’). She also participates as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC), and the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD), and as a member of the scientific advisory board for the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA).

Dr. Burdick’s work is focused on neurocognition in major psychiatric disorders, with a specific expertise in bipolar disorder (BD). One of the first in the field to acknowledge the presence of cognitive impairment in BD, she has dedicated the past two decades to investigating the clinical, biological, neuroimaging, genetic, and functional correlates of this phenomenon. Dr. Burdick’s work has also highlighted the need to target this domain directly with treatment to promote full recovery in every patient. She has published more than 160 articles and has received several awards for her work in this area, including the prestigious Colvin Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation in 2021 and the Klerman Award from the DBSA in 2023. She is also a dedicated mentor and hopes to help to cultivate the next generation of researchers in the mood disorders field.