Current Address:
Lisa Barreto-D’Silva MD
Swampscott, MA 01907
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Current Position:
Attending Adult,Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the North Shore Medical Center Partial Hospital Program: Jan 2011-present
Consulting Psychiatrist for MCPAP (Massachusetts Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Access Project) to pediatricians in the community: Jan 2011-present
Attending Child Psychiatrist On Call at the North Shore Medical Center/Union Hospital Pediatric Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, Lynn, MA: Jan 2011-present
Private practice work, 4 hours a week, Loring Avenue, Salem, MA: 2010-present
Previous Practice Experience:
Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, Salem Hospital, Partial Hospital Day Program, Salem, MA: September 2004-June 2006
Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, North Shore Medical Center/Mass General Hospital for Children, Salem, MA: 2004-2008
Medical Director, Pediatric Inpatient Unit at North Shore Medical Center/Hunt Hospital in Danvers, MA: June 2006-Dec 2010
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Training: Tufts/New England Medical Center, July 2002-04
Adult Residency Training: Institute of Living/University of Connecticut Psychiatry Residency Training Program, 1998-2001
M.D.: American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Montserrat, British West Indies, 1993-1997
B.S.,Biology/Cognitive Psychology: Boston College, MA, 1989-1993
Research projects:
"The Need for Health Education for a Better Tomorrow", based on volunteer work done in India with undernourished children, 1992
"Alzheimer's Disease", 1996
Residency Experience/Organizations:
-Chief resident of outpatient psychiatry department, University of Connecticut Health Center, July to December 2001
-President, Psychiatry Resident’s Council, academic year 2000-2001
-Psychiatry Residents Training Committee, Jul 2000- December 2001
-Residents Overview Committee, Nov 2000- December 2001
-Connecticut Psychiatry Society, 2000-2001
Board Certification: Adult Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, June 2006
Academic Appointment: Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Jan 2005-2007
Foreign Languages:
fluent Spanish, Portuguese.
Skills/Interests: Excellent interpersonal and people skills, music, travel ; educating/supporting mental health providers in the community around issues of compassion fatigue that comes with caring for mentally ill patients. I also have given few psychopharm sessions to nurses in the local school systems and am in a monthly supervision group with some therapists in the community I share patients with.