Paul G. Hammerness, MD

Paul G. Hammerness, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where he serves as Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Hammerness received his medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He completed both his general psychiatry residency training and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Dr. Hammerness has over two decades of clinical care, research, teaching, and administrative experience; before joining BMC, he held increasing leadership roles across academic institutions including Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Southcoast Health.

Dr. Hammerness' clinical and research interests center on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across the lifespan and the cardiovascular impact of stimulant medications for ADHD, and on pediatric psychopharmacology generally. He seeks to bring the highest integrity and standards of care to all his clinical interactions.

Dr. Hammerness has been an investigator in dozens of clinical trials whose results have been published in peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a peer reviewer for journals including JAACAP, Pediatrics, and JAMA, and has been an expert contributor for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice Parameter for ADHD. He lectures locally, nationally, and internationally.

In his longstanding role as an educator, Dr. Hammerness has provided supervision and teaching of colleagues and trainees in psychiatry, pediatrics, and developmental medicine on topics in child psychiatry. As a mission- and culture-oriented administrator and leader, he is experienced in behavioral health integration, telemedicine, electronic health records (EHR), and interdepartmental collaboration.