Dr. Hanau has treated patients with complex, refractory psychiatric illness for 25 years. As an early-career psychiatrist, he was Director of the Division of Medical Psychiatry at Two Brattle Center, focusing on the treatment of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and comorbid affective and trauma-related psychiatric illness.
During a 15-year tenure as a staff psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Hanau was Assistant Medical Director of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders from 2016 to 2023 and served on the MGH Institutional Review Board for 2 years. He is Lecturer of Psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and lectures to medical students, psychiatry residents and the community.
Dr. Hanau’s work with individuals suffering from OCD led to an interest in exploring the relationship between OCD and disordered eating in patients suffering from anorexia and bulimia and the ways in which that relationship may inform effective treatment.