Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Fellowship in Clinical Neurosciences.

Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Fellowship in Clinical Neurosciences.

by Baer Foundation on June 16, 2016

Established by The Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulations, The Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School; The Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Fellowship in Clinical Neurosciences was established using 2014 grant funds. The fellowship is designed to bridge the somewhat arbitrary separation between neurology and psychiatry. In this way, the fellowship is both novel and transformative in nature and will allow the hospitals to train a new generation of clinicians able to help treat neuropsychiatric disorders without arbitrarily classifying them only within the terms of neurology or psychiatry. The three-year fellowship includes both clinical and research mentoring and training. Fellows are matched with two clinical mentors (one from the psychiatry faculty, one from the neurology fault) as well as two research mentors (one an active clinical/translational schist, one a basic researcher).

Recent Sidney R. Baer, Jr. fellows include:

2015:
Ryan Darby, MD

2014:
Simon Laganiere, MD
Aaron Boes, MD, PhD
Adam Stern, MD

2013:
Mike Fox, MD, PhD
Mark Halko PhD

The Berenson -Allen Center also held two Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation Lectures with presenters and attendants from each of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals, with two more scheduled for the future.

SIDNEY R. BAER, JR. FOUNDATION LECTURE SERIES

Each year, an international leader will be invited to BIDMC as the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Visiting Professor, where they will spend time with fellows and faculty and share the latest advances in the interface between neurology and psychiatry. Each visiting professor will be invited to join the selection committee for the following year to help handpick the program’s future fellows and visiting professors. The overall objective of the visiting professorship is to engage experts from outside Harvard to share their expertise and knowledge, help us improve the educational curriculum and research efforts, and further strengthen the integration of neurology and psychiatry.

2015 Lecture Dates

• Joel Voss, PhD: Noninvasive modulation of hippocampal-cortical functional networks and memory
  May 27

2014 Lecture Dates

• Seward Rutkove, MD and Mark Chalek: Challenges in Becoming a Scientist-Entrepreneur
  April 18
• Melissa Anderson and Sharon Wilson: Avoiding Bias at the Bench, Business, and Bedside: Balancing Conflict of Interest
  May 30
• David Perez, MD: Functional Neurologic Syndromes
  October 3
• Inaugural Visiting Professor: Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
  December 12

The Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation is a world leader in research and development, clinical application, and teaching of noninvasive brain stimulation. Their work has been fundamental in establishing noninvasive brain stimulation as a valuable tool in clinical and fundamental neuroscience, improving the technology and its integration with several brain-imaging methodologies, and helping to create the field of therapeutic noninvasive brain stimulation.

The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is one of the nation’s preeminent academic medical centers.