Joanna MacLean

Dr. MacLean graduated from Classical High School in 2002, and then received her B.A. in International Relations: Politics, Culture and Identity from Brown University in 2006. She received her M.D. in 2010 from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and received the Isaac Ray Award in Psychiatry. Dr. MacLean completed residency training in Adult Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. She served as Chief Resident of Women’s Mental Health at Cambridge Hospital, with a longitudinal elective at Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. MacLean is currently the Director of Women’s Behavioral Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative, where her clinical interests include women’s mental health across the reproductive years and the integration of behavioral health into primary care and obstetric settings. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator, at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She has been a member of the National Taskforce on Women’s Reproductive Mental Health since 2013, with the goal of addressing gaps in reproductive psychiatry education, and involved in the development of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry. She directs the Women’s Mental Health Didactic Curriculum and Integrated Behavioral Health Didactic Curriculum for the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, and she has been a three-time recipient of the Dean’s Excellence In Teaching Award at the Warren Alpert Medical School for her clinical teaching of medical students.