Dr. Gary Chinman

Dr. Gary Chinman is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School where he teaches medical students and psychiatry residents how to create near-immediate rapport with patients as a first step towards motivating the patients in personal change. A natural teacher/coach, Dr. Chinman's master’s program in education helped him to expand and refine exercises and interventions that facilitate personal growth. He frequently uses principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy which he has taught for years to primary care doctors in an annual Harvard Medical School CME course, as well as to psychiatry residents. 

As a senior consultant at the Levinson Institute, Dr. Chinman taught and coached scores of physician leaders and corporate executives the basics and nuances of leadership, e.g., managing change, mentoring, negotiation, understanding one’s direct reports and supervisors, giving feedback, etc. Dr. Chinman implemented these skills regularly as co-director of the outpatient division in the department of psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as past president of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and former associate director of the Massachusetts Physician Health Services. 

Currently, he continues on the leadership team at the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society and manages a busy private outpatient practice in which he sub-specializes in treating and coaching physicians.