Alice Flaherty
Physician Investigator (Cl), Interdisciplinary Brain Center, Mass General Research Institute
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Alice Flaherty is a joint associate professor of both neurology and psychiatry at HMS. Her practice is at MGH. Her education was preparation H, in that she did an AB, MD, internship, residency, and fellowship at Harvard. In an attempt at diversity, she did a PhD at MIT, one mile away. In the MGH department of neurology, she is the director of the movement disorders fellowship, co-director of its brain stimulator unit, and has a particular interest in the overlap between mood and movement disorders. Her research focuses on brain systems that control behavioral drives, whether to walk, to communicate, or to create, and how these are influenced by interventions ranging from dopaminergic drugs to phototherapy to deep brain stimulation.