Andrew Clark, M.D.

Dr. Andrew Clark is a child and adult psychiatrist who has worked on the staff of the Children and the Law Program at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1996; he became the Medical Director of the program in 2005. In that capacity he has conducted over a hundred Guardian ad litem evaluations in conflicted custody cases, and has served as an expert witness in a wide range of cases involving children and families in Probate, Juvenile, District and Federal Courts. He has had a special interest in children and parents with severe psychiatric illness and the impact of traumatic experiences on children, and has maintained an active private practice of child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. In addition, he has worked for twelve years as the Director of Psychiatric Services at the Suffolk County House of Correction, a large urban correctional facility.

Dr. Clark holds academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He regularly supervises trainees in child psychiatry and in forensic psychiatry and psychology, and he presents frequently to judges, attorneys, and child protection workers around child psychiatric illness and treatment. He is Board Certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Adult Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry, and he was previously trained and Board Certified in Pediatrics.

For additional information on Dr. Andrew Clark, please see his curriculum vitae.