Hadine Joffe

Dr. Joffe is the Paula A. Johnson Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She previously served as the executive director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), where she founded and directed the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program. Dr. Joffe’s academic and clinical work is integrated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Supportive Oncology, which she previously led as Director of Psycho-oncology Research and with the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Breast Cancer Program. She previously served as the interim chair of the BWH Department of Psychiatry, and prior to that served as the Executive Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and the Vice Chair for Research.

Dr. Joffe is a proven academic leader, clinician, and clinical neuroscientist whose research focuses on mood and sleep disorders in women across the lifespan, especial midlife and aging. Her research examines the mechanisms (neural, hormonal, neurosteroid, stress, autonomic), clinical course, treatment, and downstream consequences (body fat gain, neurocognitive decline) of neuropsychological symptoms (depression, insomnia, thermoregulatory disturbance, fatigue) in healthy midlife women and breast cancer survivors. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Dr. Joffe received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, a medical degree from Cornell University Medical College, and a master’s degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her Psychiatry Residency at McLean Hospital and a fellowship in Reproductive Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has academic medicine leadership training from Harvard Business School and the national Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program.