Dr. Barbour was born and raised near Grand Rapids, MI. After completing her undergraduate and graduate studies in Michigan, she was accepted to the McLean/MGH Psychiatry Training Program at Harvard Medical School where she also eventually served as Chief Resident. Following residency, she was awarded the Harvard Dupont-Warren Fellowship which provided her advanced neuroimaging training. Dr. Barbour currently has a number of roles as an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the Medical Director of the TMS Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and the founder and training director of their Neuromodulation Fellowship program while also providing ECT and TMS consultations and treatments at McLean Hospital. She is also a member of the Clinical TMS Society’s Research Committee and Clinical Standards Committee. Dr. Barbour has expertise in numerous areas of neuromodulation.

Originally from Indiana, Dr. Pottanat relocated to Boston for his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Harvard Medical School/ Boston Children’s Hospital. With over 10 years experience in the community, he is passionate about providing comprehensive and novel treatment options to patients. At McLean, Dr. Pottanat is the Associate Medical Director of the 3East Girls Intensive and Step-Down Programs, which provide intensive dialectical behavior therapy for teens with a history of self-harm and suicide. He is also an attending at McLean’s TMS center and is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Previously, Dr. Pottanat launched and directed one of the first non-academic TMS centers in the Boston area in 2016. He is a member of the Clinical TMS Society’s Research Committee.

Read Boston Globe Article Featuring Dr. Pottanat

Born and raised in Oregon, Dr. Lum attended the Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed his Residency in General Psychiatry at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Program before completing a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital Program. He also has a Master’s degree in secondary education and has served as the Medical Director at a large community based mental health practice for the past 20 years. Dr. Lum worked with Dr. Pottanat to open the first non-academic TMS center in the Boston area.

Dr. Kritzer-Cheren is from Miami, Florida and received his medical and graduate degrees from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His graduate work in Molecular Pharmacology focused on novel approaches to manipulating signaling cascades. He then completed Psychiatry Residency at Duke University as a research resident followed by a clinical fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been awarded multiple grants in translational neuroscience with a focus on neurocircuit mechanisms of neurotherapeutics. At MGH, he is a Neuropsychiatrist and an attending in the TMS Clinic, the Ketamine Clinic, and the Acute Psychiatric Service.

Born and raised in North Carolina, Ann’s father’s career as a school principal motivated her to get a degree in English Secondary Education for At Risk Youth. While at school, she found her way into the hospitality industry and has remained in this field for the past two decades. The industry also brought her up to the New England area which she has made her home. Ann was eager to transfer her skills of providing for others to a more clinical role and has been trained as a TMS technician by our team.

Born and raised in the Boston area, Barbara received her undergraduate degree and M.A.T. in Secondary Science Education from Simmons College. She taught Biology at Brookline High School and while there, developed new curricula in the areas of nutrition and human reproduction, supervised many student teachers, and received the Outstanding Biology Teacher of Massachusetts award. As an instructor at Simmons College, she co-taught the graduate level science teaching methods course for over a decade. She served as a faculty advisor at Lesley College and UMass and consulted for WBGH, Prentice Hall and Planned Parenthood. Barbara received her health coaching credentials in 2016 from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and went on to start her own business, A Better Balance Health and Wellness.

As BPN’s health coach, she is able to merge her prior background as a science educator with her work and life experiences, helping others overcome their lifestyle challenges. She believes that as you learn how to balance the different aspects of your life, you’ll feel better, both physically and emotionally. Ultimately, this balance will allow you to meet your health and wellness goals.