Biography

Dr. Shinn is a psychiatrist in the McLean Hospital Psychotic Disorders Division, the Director of Clinical Research of the McLean Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She earned her BA in neuroscience and behavior from Columbia University, MPH from the UCLA School of Public Health, and MD from the UCSF School of Medicine. She graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and subsequently earned a Master of Medical Science (MMSc) degree in clinical and translational research from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Clinical Investigator Training Program. She has provided clinical care and administrative leadership as a founding co-medical director of the McLean OnTrack first-episode psychosis program (2013-2018); has received NIMH funding to conduct research in psychotic disorders; serves as the Psychosis Section Editor for the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry; and teaches medical students (course director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program’s preclinical psychiatry course) and psychiatry residents.

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