Our team members’ research
The Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recognized worldwide for its advances in child and adolescent mental health research. Researchers on our Psychiatry Consultation Service team are engaged in several significant projects in the areas of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
Learn more about our team members and their latest research projects:
Chase Samsel, MD
Dr. Samsel’s research focuses on overlapping and under-recognized physical and psychiatric diagnoses, problems, and interventions to improve the quality of life of patients with serious illness. He also has special interests in communication, neuropsychiatric illness, integrated behavioral health, and palliative care.
Kevin Tsang, PsyD
Dr. Tsang’s research focuses on quality improvement and standardizing empirically informed approaches to care to psychiatric concerns within the medical setting, including patients presenting with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and somatic symptom and related disorders.