Tufts Medical Center- Children's Hospital
Boston-Metro Region II
MCPAP Staff

John Sargent, MD, is the director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center and professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to assuming that position, he was professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine and director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, Texas. He also served as the clinical director of the System of Hope, a community system of care for seriously emotionally disturbed children in Houston, Texas. He is currently a member of the Massachusetts Children's Behavioral Health Advisory Council which is responsible for monitoring and improving children's behavioral health throughout the state. He has experience in all aspects of clinical child and adolescent psychiatry and special interest in developing clinical systems of care for poor and underserved children and adolescents with mental health problems. His other special interests include child and family responses to trauma and violence, eating disorders, adolescent suicide, family therapy, and international child mental health program development. He has published more than 70 articles and books on these topics. Dr Sargent is a nationally known family therapist and has training and certification in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Pediatrics. Dr. Sargent is also president of the American Family Therapy Academy. Before joining the Baylor College of Medicine faculty in 2001, Dr. Sargent had been the director of Education and Research at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas and previously was director of General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also has served as deputy director of the Eastern European Child Abuse and Child Mental Health Project and has extensive experience in training mental health professionals throughout the world.

Carlos Lopez, MD, is the MCPAP staff psychiatrist representing Boston’s Children’s Hospital, where he is a staff physician.  Dr. Lopez graduated from the University Autonomous of Guadalajara and completed his residency in psychiatry at Harvard University South Shore Program.  Dr. Lopez completed his clinical fellowship in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/Shriners Burn Hospital where he performed a longitudinal post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) study in children with burns.  Dr. Lopez has published several papers regarding children with PTSD.  An assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Boston University, Dr. Lopez’s special interests include spirituality, culture, religion, and health outcomes and PTSD in children and adolescents.  Dr. Lopez is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Joseph Jankowski, MD, is a staff psychiatrist for our Boston-Metro II MCPAP. He is the former Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center and currently serves as Residency Training Director for the Child and Adolescent Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center.  Dr. Jankowski is also a Clinical Professor at Tufts Medical School.  He has extensive expertise in Child Psychopharmacology and is the Director of the Outpatient Team serving children and adolescents with Mood Disorders, Genetic Problems and Pediatric Neurology/Psychiatry Illnesses.  Dr. Jankowski completed his Pediatric Residency at Tufts and completed his General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training at Yale.  He is the Co-Chair of the Member Benefits Committee for AACAP.  He represents the Mass Psychiatric Society at the Interspecialty Committee of the Mass Medical Society. He is also a delegate from the Charles River District Branch to the Annual Meeting of the Mass Medical Society. He is a past president of the AACAP Assembly of District Organizations and currently represents the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as a delegate at this Assembly. Dr. Jankowski is board certified in Pediatrics, Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry.  He also serves as a board examiner in both Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Judith Robinson, MD, is a staff psychiatrist for the Boston Metro II MCPAP.  She is also an attending psychiatrist, supervising psychiatrist, and medical director of College ADHD and Learning Disability Clinic at Tufts Medical Center.  She received her MD degree from Tufts University.

Anela Bolfek, MD, is a staff psychiatrist for the Boston Metro II MCPAP.  Dr. Bolfek is also an assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Tufts Medical Center.  She is an attending and supervisor for the Child Psychiatry Outpatient Department at Tufts Medical Center.  She completed her General Psychiatry Residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center.  Dr Bolfek worked with chronically mental ill adolescents as an attending at the Adolescent Continuing Care Unit at the WSH. She was also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has authored review articles for the Adolescent Medicine Clinics and has an expertise in child psychopharmacology.  She has research experience with ADHD. Dr Bolfek obtained her MD degree from Zagreb Croatia.

Smita Srivastava, MD, is a staff psychiatrist for the Boston Metro II MCPAP.  She is a Child Psychiatry Outpatient Attending and Director of the Child Consult Service at Tufts Medical Center.   Dr. Srivastava is an Assistant Professor at Tufts Medical School.  She completed triple board residency in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center.  Dr. Srivastava also received her MD from Tufts Medical School. 

Mary Ahern, RN, MS, CS, is the clinical nurse specialist for the Boston-Metro II MCPAP hub.  She is also the clinical coordinator for the Adult Psychiatry Consultation /Liaison Service at Tufts Medical Center and a clinical instructor at Tufts University School of Medicine.  Mary received her graduate degree in nursing from Northeastern University and her undergraduate degree in nursing from Saint Anselm College.  Mary has worked as a nurse at Tufts Medical Center for more than 30 years.

Gregory Brownstein, MEd, MA, LCSW, CSS, CAS, is the administrator for the Boston-Metro II MCPAP region at Tufts Medical Center/Children’s Hospital.  The director of psychiatric services at Tufts Medical Center, he has had many years experience in executive level hospital and healthcare administrative and operational positions.

Alexis Hinchey, MSW, LICSW, received her MSW from Boston College.  Alexis has experience working in a variety of settings, including acute residential treatment, hospitals, schools, and prisons.  She has worked with many populations, including children and adults and both mentally ill and mentally retarded individuals.

Jessica Thompson, care coordinator for our Metro-Boston II region, received a BA from Colgate University with a double concentration in psychology and in sociology and anthropology.  Jessica has had experience in direct care of emotionally disabled children.  She has also tutored high school dropouts for their General Educational Development (GED) examinations and has worked as a research analyst.

 

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