Dr. Jay Nathanson, MD


Dr. Jay Nathanson joined the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacolgy Unit in September 2008 after he returned to Canada following a ten-year hiatus in the USA.

He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario Medical School and completed his residency in psychiatry and fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is board certified in both Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Nathanson received a Masters Degree in Public Health from the Boston University School of Public Health, where he concentrated in health law and medical ethics. Following his training, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Nathanson has worked as an attending psychiatrist on an in-patient mental health unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. More recently, he worked for three and a half years as a general consultation-liaison psychiatrist and as the psychiatric liaison to the Infectious Disease and HIV Services at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. During these years he was the co-attending physician on an 18-bed unit for patients with acute AIDS and also ran the psychopharmacology clinic for the HIV and Hepatitis C out-patient services.