Clinical Director, DFCI Inpatient Psychiatry Consult Service
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dr. Damien Miran is the clinical director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) Inpatient Psychiatry Consult Service and clinical liaison to the DFCI neuro-oncology and hematologic oncology disease centers. He is an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and staff psychiatrist in the DFCI Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care (POPC) and in the Division of Medical Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is co-chair of the DFCI POPC Education Committee, co-leader of the interdisciplinary Adult/Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology Seminar for psychiatry, psychology, and social work fellows, and co-leader of the DFCI Universal Distress Screening team focused on psychosocial screening evaluations of all DFCI patients. He is a member of the ACLP Fellowship Education Subcommittee. He completed psychiatry residency training at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School) and fellowship training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School on the fellowship’s psycho-oncology track. His clinical and academic interests include delirium, demoralization, neuropsychiatric effects of cancer and cancer treatments, palliative care psychiatry, and medical education.
