Identifying & Treating Early Psychosis

Dr. Marcela Horvitz-Lennon

Marcela Horvitz-Lennon is a senior physician scientist at the RAND Corporation and a faculty member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She is an associate professor of psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance. Previously, she was affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and the Chilean Ministry of Health. Her research focuses on the quality and value of health care received by adults with serious mental illnesses. Much of her work has been public sector-related. Horvitz-Lennon has conducted research on racial/ethnic and geographic disparities in care; Medicaid and federal health care policy; utilization patterns and safety of antipsychotic drugs; underuse and overuse of mental health interventions; integration of physical and mental healthcare; diffusion of mental health innovations; and global mental health. She serves as principal investigator or co-investigator on NIH (NIMH/NIMHD) and other federally-funded research. Through her clinical position, Horvitz-Lennon is actively involved in medical student education and resident training. She has also mentored pre-doctoral students and served as member/director of Ph.D. dissertation committees. Horvitz-Lennon earned her M.D. in Santiago, Chile, and a Master's degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She completed her psychiatric residency training at the University of Maryland Medical School, and a fellowship in Community Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School.