Raquelle Mesholam-Gately, PhD

Dr. Mesholam-Gately is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). In addition to her role as the associate director for MAPNET, she is a licensed clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist who is the Harvard/BIDMC site co-director for the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) and Director of Psychological Services for the Advancing Services for Psychosis Integration and Recovery (ASPIRE) Clinic at BIDMC. She also directs the Peer Advisory, Advocacy & Research Council (PAARC) and Neuropsychology Research in the Psychosis Research Program at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center Public Psychiatry Division of BIDMC. 

Dr. Mesholam-Gately’s research is broadly focused on characterizing and/or intervening in neurocognitive, olfactory, and reward-related deficiencies in psychotic disorders, including through partnerships with individuals who have lived experience with serious mental health conditions. This work includes neurocognitive functioning over the illness course, olfaction and brain reward system linkages, and improvement of cognitive remediation efforts, as well as partnering with the PAARC in participatory mental health research including a recent project related to renaming schizophrenia.