Clinicn Investigator, Assc Prf Psych Psychiatry in Medicine Clinical MGPO, Mass General Research Institute

Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Psychiatrist Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD University of Virginia School of Medicine 2006

catatonia; collaborative care; factitious disorders; fraud; internship and residency; long covid; long qt syndrome; malingering; mite infestations; neuroimaging in catatonia; neuroleptic malignant syndrome; psychoses substance-induced; qt prolongation; torsades de pointes

Scott R. Beach, MD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and former program director of the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He also previously directed the Infectious Disease-Psychiatry Consultation Service at MGH, providing psychiatric care in the co-located HIV clinic. Areas of clinical expertise include QT prolongation with psychiatric medications, catatonia and related syndromes, and patients who deceive providers.

From a research standpoint, Dr. Beach focuses on understanding catatonia and characterizing QT prolongation with medications. He has been a co-investigator on grants from the NIH and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Beach is the author of over 50 book chapters and 80 peer-reviewed articles.