Home Base announces that Rachel Millstein, PhD has accepted the position of Clinical and Research Co-Director of Mind Body Health, and April Hirschberg, MD has accepted the position of Medical Co-Director of Mind Body Health!
“Home Base Leadership is happy to announce that April Hirschberg, MD has accepted the position of Medical Co-Director of Mind Body Health (previously Wellness). In this role, Dr. Hirschberg will provide overall medical oversight and management for Resiliency, Warrior Health and Fitness, and other Mind Body initiatives. April will work alongside the Clinical and Research Co-Director of Mind Body Health to provide MBH services and support to implement, evaluate and advance the MBH team at Home Base, while networking, building, and overseeing all national and international Home Base MBH programming. Since March 2023 she has been offering resiliency groups for veterans, service members and their families at Home Base. She is board certified in both adult psychiatry and lifestyle medicine. She completed her residency in adult psychiatry at the MGH/McLean Combined Psychiatry Program in 2006 and has since remained on staff in the MGH Department of Psychiatry first in the Center for Women’s Mental Health and later in the MGH Cancer Center. Dr. Hirschberg is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. She has completed Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Certification and Resilient Youth training with the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at MGH. She has been offering Mind Body/SMART group programs for cancer survivors at MGH since 2017 and more recently for individuals at high risk for cancer and for her medical colleagues at Massachusetts General Brigham.”
“We are also pleased to announce that Rachel Millstein, PhD has accepted the position of Clinical and Research Co-Director of Mind Body Health (previously Wellness). Since 2020, Dr. Millstein has been providing program development and general oversight of Home Base Resiliency programming in collaboration with the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Her clinical skills as a SMART and Resilient Warrior/Family group leader along with her documented research and data analysis acumen are a backdrop to the leadership she has demonstrated over the past few years of programmatic growth. In this new expanded Co-Director role, Dr. Millstein will provide clinical oversight and research management for the services provided at Home Base in the Mind Body Health Services directorate (Resiliency, Warrior Health & Fitness, and all other mind body medicine initiatives). Rachel will work alongside the Medical Co-Director of Mind Body Health to provide MBH services and support to implement, evaluate and advance the MBH team at Home Base, while networking, building and overseeing all national and international Home Base MBH programming.”