Psychiatry Residency Faculty 

Jason Strauss, MD, Department Chair, Program Director
Jason Strauss, MD, is the Chair and Chief of Psychiatry at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center. He graduated from Stony Brook School of Medicine. He completed an Adult Psychiatry Residency at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Training Program and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance. After training, Dr. Strauss worked at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Hebrew SeniorLife as a geriatric psychiatrist. He spent the last nine years at Cambridge Health Alliance, most recently as Director of Inpatient Psychiatry, Director of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Training Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship.

In addition to working with older adults, Dr. Strauss specializes in treating patients with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) and 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. Dr. Strauss enjoys working with residents and students as well as collaborating with colleagues from all disciplines. 

Robert Gilman, MD
Dr. Gilman is a graduate of Penn State College of Medicine. He subsequently did his residency and a forensic fellowship in New York City. After moving to the Boston area he has done extensive work in Adult Inpatient Psychiatry. He worked for more than a decade at Cambridge Health Alliance on the acute inpatient unit providing direct patient care and supervising residents and medical students. After joining the staff at St. Elizabeth's for occasional weekend coverage on the geriatric inpatient unit (located at Carney Hospital) he took on full-time position in 2019 on Seton 5 West providing care to the general adult inpatient population as well as supervision for the psychiatry interns and residents as well as medical students and physician assistant students.  

Robert Stern, MD
Dr. Stern graduated from New York University School of Medicine and completed his residency from the Cambridge Hospital. A committed community psychiatrist, he served as Director of Adult Psychiatric Services at Somerville Mental Health Clinic, Executive Director of the Eliot Community Mental Health Center and then for many years as the Director of Behavioral Health Services and Chief, Department of Psychiatry at Emerson Hospital before joining the staff at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. He is currently the Medical Director of Seton 5, St. Elizabeth's 31-bed inpatient unit, and shares in the training of psychiatric residents, medical students from Tufts and Boston University and PA students. He is a community board member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. 

Additional Faculty Members

Additional faculty members from within and outside the medical center provide supervision in psychotherapy, community psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and neurology.