Madhavi Prakash, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Prakash is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. She is on staff in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her clinical work at MGH is in Primary Care and Medical Psychiatry with an emphasis on bipolar and psychotic disorders. She teaches and supervises residents in the MGH-McLean Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Dr. Prakash was trained at MGH and McLean Hospital and was Chief Resident and later Psychiatrist-in-Charge of the Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Program at McLean Hospital. More recently, she led an Assertive Community Treatment Team in the Boston area. Dr. Prakash’s research is in neurochemistry and psychopharmacology. Her scientific knowledge is coupled with a commitment to comprehensive and effective care for persons with severe and persistent mental illness. Dr. Prakash views psychiatry as a science and an art, a balance between psychopharmacology treatments and psychosocial rehabilitation.
Ross Ellenhorn, LICSW, Ph.D.
Dr. Ellenhorn is trained as a sociologist, psychotherapist and social worker. He has spent the last two decades dedicated to the work of helping individuals suffering psychiatric symptoms find the psychological and social means for remaining outside of institutional settings. He created the first fully operating intensive hospital diversion and wrap-around program in Massachusetts, and created, then led, one of the first Programs for Assertive Community Treatment teams in the Commonwealth. His book, which addresses psychiatric hospital recidivism and techniques for diverting hospital use, was published by Springer Publishing in 2007. Dr. Ellenhorn has given talks and seminars throughout the country, and has provided consultation to numerous mental health agencies and psychiatric hospitals on the subjects of hospital diversion, psychosocial rehabilitation, patient careerism and the PACT model. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Social Welfare and the first person to receive a joint Ph.D. from the prestigious Florence Heller School for Social Welfare Policy and Management and the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.
