Melissa Abraham, PHD, MSc

Associate Psychologist at MGH; Assistant Professor of Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

Melissa Abraham, in her role as the Director for the MGH Division of Clinical Research’s Research Ethics Consultation Unit, uses her 15 year background as a member and Chair of the Partners IRB and a fellow in Bioethics at HMS, to consult with investigators to improve the quality of IRB submissions and reviews, by discussing the ethical underpinnings of institutional and regulatory requirements with researchers, and assisting in the communication of QI, social science and behavioral research methods and practices to the IRB. She teaches bioethics at HMS and has a psychotherapy practice. Melissa has a degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University Medical School.