Kimberly Pearson, M.D.
Psychiatrist

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Dr. Pearson is a psychiatrist based in Brookline, Massachusetts. She is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Pearson diagnoses and treats all aspects of mental health problems, disorders and diseases, conducts diagnostic evaluations and consultations, provides individual psychotherapy and, when indicated, prescribes psychiatric medications.

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Education
Training + Board Certifications

Dr. Pearson graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Psychobiology from DePauw University. She received her M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School, and completed her residency in psychiatry at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and McLean Hospital.
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After completing her residency, Dr. Pearson also completed fellowships in:
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• Perinatal/Reproductive Psychiatry at the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program at MGH; and
• ​Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
• ​Dr. Pearson is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

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Dr. Pearson has been elected a Best Doctors in America® for multiple years. This represents a peer selected list of the top doctors in over 450 specialties and subspecialties across the country. In 2020, she was recognized as a top psychiatrist in Massachusetts Magazine.

Affiliations
Hospital + Medical School Affiliations 

 Dr. Pearson is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (the #1 ranked medical school for research and psychiatry in 2023 by U.S. News), and a Staff Psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and a former Staff Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (the #1 and #3 ranked hospitals, respectively, for Adult Psychiatry in the United States by U.S. News 2023).
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For over fifteen years, Dr. Pearson was a member of the MGH Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, the MGH Center for Women's Health, and the MGH Perinatal Reproductive Psychiatry Program. Dr. Pearson also consults to the Pavilion at McLean Hospital, where she previously served as the Director of the Outpatient Eating Disorders Program.

Clinical Research
​Academic and Clinical Research Interests

Dr. Pearson has varied academic, clinical and teaching interests. For example, she has participated in various academic and hospital-based clinical research studies in the areas of eating disorders, perinatal psychiatry and women’s health in psychiatry, including a longitudinal study of mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and the peurperium, the use of Wellbutrin® in treating postpartum depression, and perinatal outcome after antidepressant exposure during pregnancy.
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Dr. Pearson’s clinical research has been published in some of the most well-respected, peer reviewed medical journals, including the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Diabetes Care. In addition to her
​peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Pearson was also the lead editor of “Women’s Health and Psychiatry (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002), a 375-page book that addresses a wide range of clinically relevant issues in the psychiatric evaluation and treatment of women.
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Dr. Pearson has been invited to review psychiatric books and articles, including for the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Current Psychiatry, and the British Journal of Psychology. She is also invited to give lectures at academic centers and in communities around the country on issues related to eating disorders and psychiatric disorders associated with female reproductive function.
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Dr. Pearson is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Academy of Eating Disorders.

Publications
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Nonacs R, Soares C, Viguera A, Pearson K, Poitras J, Cohen L.
​Bupropion SR for the treatment of postpartum depression.
​Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005, 8(3):445-449.
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Pearson K, Nonacs R, Brandes M, Viguera A, Heller V, Poitras J, Hennen J, Cohen L.
Birth outcomes following prenatal exposure to antidepressants.
J Clin Psychiatry 2007; 68(8):1284-1289.
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Goebel-Fabbri A, Fikkan J, Franko D, Pearson K, Anderson B, Weinger K.
Insulin restriction associated morbidity and mortality in women with type I diabetes. Diabetes Care, 2008; 31(3):415-419.
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Goebel-Fabbri A, Anderson B, Fikkan J, Franko D, Pearson K, Weinger K.
Improvement and emergence of insulin restriction in women with type I diabetes.
Diabetes Care,2011; 34:545-550.
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Pearson K, Kirschner K, Singh J, Saver J.
Utilization behavior: environmental determinants and cognitive therapy.
Neuropsych Clin Neurosci 1994; 6(3):297-298.
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Pearson K, Nonacs R, Cohen L.
​Practical guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric illness during pregnancy.
​In: Pearson K, Sonawalla S, Rosenbaum J, ed. Women’s Health and Psychiatry, Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002, 115-125.
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Pearson K, Becker A.
​Eating disorders: Sociocultural dimensions in their pathogenesis and phenomenology.
​In: Pearson K, Sonawalla S, Rosenbaum J, ed. ​Women’s Health and Psychiatry, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002, 41-55.