John H. Halpern

Subject Matter Expert & Contributor

Dr. John Halpern, a practicing psychiatrist physician, has spent more than twenty years of his career at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was director of the Laboratory for Integrative Psychiatry, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, at McLean Hospital. Dr. Halpern was also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. During this academic period, he provided supervision and training on psychiatry and addiction psychiatry within various Harvard-Medical-School-affiliated training programs.

Dr. Halpern is a leading expert in the field of psychiatry and substance-dependence drug development and research review for the Gerson Lehrman Group.

Dr. Halpern is frequently sought as an invited lecturer and as a forensic expert, and his work has been featured in leading publications such as Newsweek, National Geographic, Discover Magazine, Wired, The New York Times, and numerous medical journals.