Program Leadership and Key Faculty
Program Leadership
Jason B. Strauss, MD
Chief of Psychiatry, BMC Brighton and BMC South (BMCAP)
Interim Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Program
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine
Jason B. Strauss, MD, is a board-certified general and geriatric psychiatrist at BMC Brighton. He received his medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine in Stony Brook, NY, and completed his psychiatry residency training through the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program in Boston. He subsequently completed a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance.
Before joining BMC Brighton, Dr. Strauss worked as a geriatric psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Hebrew SeniorLife, and then at Cambridge Health Alliance, where he held roles including Director of Inpatient Psychiatry, Director of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Training Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship. He is experienced at treating behavioral manifestations of cognitive disorders as well as anxiety, depressive, and psychotic disorders. In addition to working with older adults, he specializes in treating patients with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI).
Dr. Strauss is focused on providing high-quality, cost-effective care to underserved, vulnerable populations. He has piloted projects that have improved throughput from the emergency room to inpatient psychiatry and minimized polypharmacy, including benzodiazepines and antipsychotics, in older adults with cognitive impairment. His clinical research interests also include sleep disorders and frailty. He enjoys working with residents and students as well as collaborating with colleagues from all disciplines.
Key Faculty
Robert B. Gilman, MD
Attenting Psychiatrist, Inpatient Service
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine
Robert B. Gilman, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in inpatient care and psychotic disorders at BMC Brighton. He earned his medical degree from Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and completed his psychiatry residency training as well as a fellowship in forensic psychiatry via the New York Medical College program at Saint Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in New York City.
Dr. Gilman has more than two decades of experience in inpatient psychiatry in the Boston area, caring for patients with complex, high-acuity, and chronic psychiatric illnesses. His work focuses on the evaluation and treatment of acute psychiatric crises, including severe and persistent mental illness and significant safety concerns, with an emphasis on stabilization and transition back to the community. His practice incorporates a multidisciplinary model of care as well as the education of residents and medical students.
Robert M. Stern, MD
Medical Director, Psychiatric Services
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Robert M. Stern, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist at BMC Brighton, where he serves as Medical Director of Psychiatric Services and of Seton 5, BMC Brighton’s 31-bed inpatient unit. He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in New York City and completed his psychiatry residency training at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Stern is a committed community psychiatrist. Before joining BMC Brighton, he served as Director of Adult Psychiatric Services at Somerville Mental Health Clinic, Executive Director of the Eliot Community Mental Health Center in Lexington, and then for many years as the Director of Behavioral Health Services and Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, as well as keeping an active private practice in psychiatry. He is a Community Board Member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
Dr. Stern’s clinical and research interests focus on the care of those with serious mental illness. Other areas of interest include trauma and trauma-informed care, dual diagnosis, and the impact of the “social surround.” As faculty for the BMC Brighton Psychiatry Residency Program, Dr. Stern believes the training of residents, medical students from both Tufts and Boston University, NP, and PA students in a team-oriented environment is a priority.
Additional Faculty
Additional faculty members from within and outside the medical campus provide supervision in psychotherapy, community psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and neurology.