Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD

Biography

Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD is the director of the Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), holds the Thomas P. Hackett, MD Endowed Chair at MGH, and is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In addition to directing the Dauten Family Center, Dr. Nierenberg is the co-director of MGH’s Center for Clinical Research Education and associate director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program.

 
Dr. Nierenberg focuses on clinical trials for bipolar disorder and depression, with more than 615 published papers and a Google Scholar h-index of over 130 (meaning 130 papers have been cited by other authors at least 130 times). He has been listed among The Best Doctors or Top Doctors in America for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders every year since 1994. He has received the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Mogens Schou Award for Research and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation’s Colvin Prize. Dr. Nierenberg is currently the principal investigator (PI)of the Sequential Multiple Assignment of Treatment study for bipolar depression (SMART-BD), which compares treatments for bipolar depression funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He also leads the Bipolar Action Network, a learning health network of multiple healthcare systems, that breaks down barriers between clinical, research, and quality improvement activities to improve outcomes. Dr. Nierenberg maintains an active clinical practice, supervises and teaches residents, sits on several nonprofit advocacy boards, is on multiple journal editorial boards, and is the editor-in-chief of Psychiatric Annals.