Steven Locke, MD, Senior Scientist, Clinical Computing Ctr & Psych. Dept, BIDMC

Dr. Locke is associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of health sciences and technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches innovative solutions to public health problems using information technology. He serves on the scientific advisory council of the Harvard Center for Public Health Preparedness, the Surge Capacity and Risk Communication Workgroups of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Advisory Committee, and founded the American Psychosomatic Society’s (APS) Task Force on the Biopsychosocial Impact of Terrorism and Disasters during his term as president of APS in 2004. Dr. Locke received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Following a residency in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, he completed post-graduate fellowships in consultation-liaison psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences research at Boston University School of Medicine.  Dr. Locke also has a practice of primary care psychiatry in Wayland, Massachusetts where he chairs the Pandemic Flu Task Force for the Board of Health. He is a principal in Veritas Health Solutions, a behavioral telehealth consulting group specializing in technologies that facilitate the integration of behavioral health into primary care and chronic disease management.