Meet Our Chair

Hermioni L. Amonoo, MD, MPP, MPH is the Carol C. Nadelson, MD Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is a physician-scientist in the Departments of Psychiatry and Supportive Oncology at BWH and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), where she directs the Well-being and Cancer Research Program. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, the Massachusetts General Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and the BWH/DFCI Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosocial Oncology Fellowship Training Program. Her research focuses on developing patient-centered, cost-effective, and scalable psychosocial interventions for patients with cancer and their caregivers. Her work resulted in >100 peer-reviewed journal publications and has consistently received funding from Harvard Medical School, Brigham Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and several foundations including the Oppenheimer Family Foundation, the American Society for Hematology, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.