KIMBERLY H. PEARSON, M.D. - McLean Hospital

Curriculum Vitae
KIMBERLY H. PEARSON, M.D.
fax (617) 726-7541
voice mail (617) 724-0828
e-mail khpearson@partners.org
EDUCATION
1988 - 1989 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Robert P. Sibley Freshman English Award
1989 - 1992 DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
B.A. Psychobiology
Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Mortar Board & Gold Key
Honoraries
1992 - 1996 Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL
M.D.
AMA Rock Sleyster Memorial Scholar, MAP-RDIF Scholarship
for foreign service in third world
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Internship and Residencies:
1996 - 1997 Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
Intern, Department of Internal Medicine
1997 - 2000 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
Resident, Department of Psychiatry
1999 - 2000 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Chief Resident, Psychopharmacology Unit
Chief Resident, Psychotherapy Clinic
Clinical Fellow, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry
1999 - 2000 Two Brattle Center, Cambridge, MA
Trainee, Eating Disorders Program
Fellowships:
2000 – 2001 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Clinical Fellow, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry
2001 – 2002 Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION
1997 Massachusetts Medical License No. 156161
2001 Board Certified, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1996 - 1997 Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
1997 - 2000 Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA
Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry
2000 - 2004 Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA
Instructor in Psychiatry
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
1996 - 1997 Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
Intern in Medicine
1997 - 1999 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
Resident in Psychiatry
1998 - 2000 Charles River Hospital, Wellesley, MA
Associate Medical Staff
2000 – 2001 Massachusetts General Hosptial, Boston, MA
Clinical Fellow, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinic
2000 – 2003 McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
Staff Psychiatrist
Director, Outpatient Eating Disorders Program
2001 - 2002 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Staff Psychiatrist
Bipolar Clinical Research Program
2001 – 2004 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Staff Psychiatrist
Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinic
AWARDS AND HONORS
1989 Robert P. Sibley English Award, Mount Holyoke College
1992 Phi Beta Kappa, DePauw University
1992 B.A. Psychobiology, Magna cum Laude, DePauw University
1992 Mortar Board & Gold Key (senior honor societies), DePauw
University
1994 AMA Rock Sleyster Memorial Scholar
1996 MAP-RDIF National Fellowship: foreign service in third world
1998 Certificate of Commendation, Association of Women
Psychiatrists
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1992 - 1996 American Medical Student Association
1994 - present American Psychiatric Association
1998 - present American Medical Association
1998 - present Association of Women Psychiatrists
1998 - present Massachusetts Psychiatric Society

1999 - present American Psychoanalytic Association
2000 – present Association of Eating Disorders
2000 – present Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard Medical School
Teaching Experience as a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry
1997 - 1999 Harvard Medical Student Teaching
General Supervision of Medical Students
1999 MGH Psychosomatic Conferences
“Psychiatry and Religion”
“Eating Disorders and Pregnancy”
1999 MGH/McLean Resident Orientation Series
“Antipsychotics: The Basics”
1999 - 2000 Psychopharmacology Supervision, Psychopharmacology Clinic,
MGH, (PGYII Residents)
1999 - 2000 Psychotherapy Supervision, Psychotherapy Clinic, MGH,
(PGYII Residents)
1999 - 2000 Coordination of Psychopharmacology Core Curriculum, MGH,
(PGYIII Residents)
1999 - 2000 Coordination of Spring Psychopharmacology Lecture Series
(CME Level), Women’s Health and Psychiatry,
Psychopharmacology Clinic, MGH
2000 MGH Masters in Social Work Lecture Series
“The Pharmacology of Depression and Anxiety”
2000 MIT Lecture Series
“Psychotropic Drug Use During Pregnancy and
Lactation”
Harvard Medical School
Teaching Experience as an Instructor in Psychiatry
2000 – 2001 Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association
Consultant
2000 – 2001 Lilly Lecture Bureau, Speaker
“Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder”
2000 – 2003 McLean Hospital
Resident Supervision, Eating Disorder Clinic
2000 McLean Hospital, Staff Inservice
“Medical Complications of Eating Disorders”
2001 McLean Hospital, Grand Rounds
“Maternal Depression: Pregnancy and Postpartum”
2001 Massachusetts Head Start
“Maternal Depression: Pregnancy and Postpartum”
2001 Randolph Middle School, Convocation
“Body Image and Eating Disorders”
2001 Arlington Middle School, Class lectures
“Body Image and Eating Disorders”

2002 MGH, Nurse Practitioner Lecture Series
“Psychotropic Drug Use During Pregnancy and
Lactation”
2002 McLean Hospital, PGYIII Psychopharmacology Series
“Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Eating Disorders”
2001-2002 MGH, PGYIII Psychopharmacology Series
“Psychotropic Drug Use During Pregnancy”
2002 McLean Hospital, Grand Rounds
“A Sociocultural Perspective on Eating Disorders”
2002 Westwood Lodge, Grand Rounds
“A Sociocultural Perspective on Eating Disorders”
2003 Pembroke Hospital, Grand Rounds
“A Sociocultural Perspective on Eating Disorders”
2004 MGH, PGYII Lecture Series
“Eating Disorders: Assessment and Treatment”
2004 MGH, PGYIII Psychosomatic Lecture Series, Discussant
“Eating Disorders and Pregnancy”
PUBLICATIONS
Pearson, K., Kirschner, K., Singh J., Saver J. Utilization Behavior: Environmental
determinants and cognitive therapy. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical
Neurosciences. 6(3):297-298; 1994. Abstract.
Miller, F., Morello, J., Pearson, K., Saver, J. Anticonvulsants and electroconvulsive
therapy interactions in neurologic patients requiring ECT treatment. Abstract.
Pearson, K., Sonawalla, S., Rosenbaum, J. Women’s Health and Psychiatry. Baltimore:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
Pearson, K., Nonacs, R., Cohen, L. Practical guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric
illness during pregnancy. In: Pearson, K, ed. Women’s Health and Psychiatry,
Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
Pearson, K., Becker, A. Eating disorders: Sociocultural dimensions in their
pathogenesis and phenomenology. In: Pearson, K., ed. Women’s Health and
Psychiatry, Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
Nonacs, R., Soares, C., Viguera, A., Pearson, K., Poitras, J., Cohen, L. Bupropion SR
for the treatment of postpartum depression. 2004. Submitted.
Pearson, K., Brandes, M., Viguera, A., Heller, V., Poitras, J., Hennen, J., Cohen, L. Birth
outcomes following prenatal exposure to antidepressants. 2004. Submitted.
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
1994 Pearson, K., Saver J. Utilization Behavior. American
Neuropsychiatric Association Sixth Annual Meeting, Newport, RI.
1998 Pearson, K., Sachs, G. Selective Mutism in Children. Commentator.
Medscape Mental Health

RESEARCH
1999 Pearson, K. To Know Thy Self. Massachusetts General Hospital Psychotherapy
Case Conference, Boston, MA.
1999 Pearson, K., Ryder, L., Skaletsky, C., Orlando, B. A Relational Model for
Eating Disorders. Panel Discussion. Deaconess-Waltham Hospital, MA.
2001 Pearson, K., Viguera A., Heller, V., Cohen, L. Birth Outcomes after Prenatal
Exposure to Antidepressants. American Psychiatric Association Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Poster.
2002 Pearson, K. Eating Disorders in Adolescents. Awesome Adolescence
(McLean Hospital sponsored conference), Boston, MA
2000 – 2001 Co-Investigator, Longitudinal Study of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
During Pregnancy and the Peurperium, Perinatal and Reproductive
Psychiatry Program, MGH
2001 - 2002 Co-Investigator, Somatomorphic Matrix Study of Body Image, Eating
Disorders Research Program, McLean Hospital
2001- 2004 Co-Investigator, Outcome Study of Eating Disorder Behavior in
Diabetic Women, Joslin Clinic