Dr. Evins is the Cox Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director for Faculty Development for the MGH Department of Psychiatry, and the Founding Director of the MGH Center for Addiction Medicine.

After completing her residency in adult psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, where she was Chief Resident, she completed a fellowship in molecular biology at the Mailman Research Center of McLean Hospital and a second fellowship in clinical research at MGH. Dr. Evins then worked in the Schizophrenia, Bipolar, and Depression Clinical and Research Programs at MGH, served on the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Central Office Research Review Committee for a decade, and completed a Master’s in Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2005, Dr. Evins founded the MGH Center for Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Evins serves as director of the MGH Center for Addiction Medicine, and senior faculty of the MGH Center of Excellence in Psychosocial and Systemic Research and the MGH Public and Community Psychiatry Program. Her broad interests include identifying risk factors, early interventions and treatments of mental health and substance use disorders occurring alone or together for which she has studied cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, pharmacological, community support, and multimodal treatment interventions. She has additionally studied reward responsiveness, recurrent negative thinking, mindfulness capacity, cue responsiveness, and other potential biomarkers of vulnerability to mental health and substance use disorders and of treatment response. She has been awarded over $50 million in grant funding for this work and authored over 250 articles, book chapters, and reviews on these and related topics. Her articles, published in scientific journals such as Lancet, JAMA, JAMA Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, and Biological Psychiatry have been cited over 15,000 times.

Dr. Evins has been awarded the MGH Psychiatry Mentorship Award and the Award for Mentorship of Women Faculty, the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) National Science Award, has twice received the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders Young Investigator Award, and has received three career awards from NIH. She currently co-leads a NIH cross-disciplinary post-doctoral fellowship training program (K12) and is supported by eight major NIH and PCORI grants for her work.