KIMBERLY H. PEARSON, MD
- Harvard title(s): Instructor in Psychiatry
- McLean title(s): Staff Psychiatrist, MGH
- Email: khpearson@partners.org
- Telephone: 617-724-0828
- Fax: 617-726-7541
- Office Address: MGH
- Degree(s):
- 1989-1992 BA Psychobiology, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Mortar & Board & Gold Key Honoraries
- 1992-1996 MD Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, AMA Rock Sleyster Memorial Scholar, MAP-RDIF Scholarship for foreign service in third world
- Residency:
- 1996-1997 Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, Intern, Department of Medicine
- 1997-2000 MGH, Boston, MA and McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, Resident, Department of Psychiatry
- MGH Chief Resident, Psychopharmacology Unit; Chief Resident, Psychotherapy Clinic
- Fellowship:
- 2000-2001 MGH, Clinical Fellow, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry
- 2001-2002 Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Board Certifications(s):
- 1997 Massachusetts Medical License No, 156161
- 2001 Board Certified, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Clinical Interests: Dr. Pearson specializes in the area of women's health and psychiatry, and her publications include Women's Health and Psychiatry, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2002. Some areas of expertise include PMS, medication exposure during pregnancy and breastfeeding, postpartum depression, and menopause. She has participated in various research trials including an ongoing longitudinal study of mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and the peurperum, and the use of Wellbutrin in treating postpartum depression. Her most recent research, pending publication, involves perinatal outcome after antidepressant exposure during pregnancy. Dr. Pearson has been invited to give multiple lectures at academic centers and in the community on issues related to psychiatric disorders associated with female reproductive function.
- Bio: Kimberly Pearson, M.D. is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, received her M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School, and completed her residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. Dr. Pearson also completed a fellowship at the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program at MGH where she is currently a staff psychiatrist.