Gagan Joshi, MD

Dr. Gagan Joshi is the Director of the Alan and Lorraine Bressler Clinical and Research Program for Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Rovee Endowed Chair in Child Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Joshi trained in General Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently completed his Fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the combined program of the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He received training in cognitive-behavioral therapy at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute & Society.

Dr. Joshi has been the recipient of the prestigious Ethel Dupont Warren Fellowship Award through the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the XXVth Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmalogicum Congress Young Investigators Award, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Pilot Research Award, and the Norma Fine Fellowship.

Dr. Joshi's clinical and research interest is in intellectually capable Autism, with a particular focus on the frequently associated psychopathologies. In addition to coordinating the Bressler clinic and providing outpatient care to psychiatrically referred populations of all ages with Autism, Dr. Joshi is facilitating translational clinical research in intellectually capable Autism populations with psychopathology. At the Bressler Program, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Joshi is conducting research focused on the clinical and neural characterization and psychopharmacotherapeutics of Autism and related psychopathology with a particular emphasis on designing neuro-imaging informed pharmacotherapy trials by leveraging state of the art pharmaco-imaging techniques to help identify biomarkers of disease and treatment response. In collaboration with SPARK and MIT's Broad Institute, they are developing the capability to collect genetic data to enhance our understanding of the genetic underpinnings of intellectually capable Autism with associated psychopathologies.

Dr. Joshi shares research updates and expertise in Autism by offering lectures and supervision to trainees in the MGH Department of Psychiatry, and by organizing educational programs for mental health providers and for families of individuals with Autism.