Joanna MacLean, MD

Joanna MacLean, MD, is a psychiatrist and Interim Division Director for Women’s Behavioral Medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.   

Dr. MacLean graduated with a B.A. in International Relations: Politics, Culture and Identity from Brown University in 2006. She received her M.D. in 2010 from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and received the Isaac Ray Award in Psychiatry.  She completed residency training in Adult Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. She served as Chief Resident of Women’s Mental Health at Cambridge Hospital, with a longitudinal elective at Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health in Boston, Massachusetts.  

MacLean is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and recipient of the Isaac Ray Award in Psychiatry. Her clinical interests include psychiatric issues unique to women, including mood and anxiety disorders particularly related to the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum period and menopause.

She has been a member of the National Taskforce on Women’s Reproductive Mental Health since 2013, with the goal of addressing gaps in reproductive psychiatry education.  She directs the Women's Mental Health Didactic Curriculum and Integrated Behavioral Health Didactic Curriculum for the Psychiatry Residency Program, and she has been a two-time recipient of the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award at the Warren Alpert Medical School for her clinical teaching of medical students.   

Her clinical interests include women’s mental health across the reproductive years and the integration of behavioral health into primary care and obstetric settings.