Ann K. Shinn, MD, MPH, is the director of clinical research in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. From 2013-2017, she was the co-medical director of McLean OnTrack, an intensive outpatient program specializing in the treatment of first episode psychosis. Her current research focus is in understanding the neurobiology of symptom dimensions in psychosis. She is the principal investigator of a federally funded research grant (K23 award) to investigate how auditory, speech, and language regions are connected in the brains of individuals with psychotic disorders who hear voices.

Dr. Shinn remains dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with psychosis, especially in early stages of illness. She teaches psychiatry residents about early psychosis. She also serves as an advisor to medical students in the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology MD Program. Dr. Shinn served as the McLean Hospital site co-director of the Harvard Medical School Psychopathology and Introduction to Clinical Psychiatry course from 2011-2014.