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Dr. Nader is a graduate in Family Medicine who pursued a related career path in psychiatry at Harvard University.

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Nader Mental Health Services  


Accepting New Patients?

Yes, Dr. Jihad B. Nader is accepting new patients at this office.


Fax

(508) 543-1015


Address

132 Central Street, Suite 212, Foxboro, MA 02035

Office Hours

  Open Lunch Close
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Tue
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Office Details

Doctor Specialty Psychiatry
Accepting New Patients? Yes
Practice Specialty Psychiatry
Languages Spoken

Insurance Accepted  


  • Aetna
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Cigna
  • Harvard Pilgrim
  • Self-pay
  • Tufts
  • United Behavioral Health

About Dr. Nader
Dr. Nader

Bio


After fellowship, Dr. Nader worked in different settings mainly as an inpatient and CL psychiatrist managing various populations with different cultural backgrounds and age groups, complex severe mental illness, veterans, medically compromised patients, patients with special needs, and patients with addiction. As a result of doing two residencies and a fellowship and having a significant inpatient and outpatient experiences, Dr. Nader follows an integrated model of care that combines both medicine and psychiatry and is comfortable in managing difficult psychiatric and medically compromised patients in different settings. Dr. Nader provides an advanced knowledge in evidence based model of health care, diagnostic and safety assessment, legal and ethical issues, psychopharmacological treatment, therapy, after care planning, capacity of a patient to consent to treatment, mental symptoms as a result of physical illness, physical symptoms as a result of a mental disorder, behavioral issues, compliance, presence of support, managing delirium, substance related problems, and facilitating communication and coordinating a multidisciplinary care that involve the primary team.Dr. Nader has been affiliated with many hospitals including the Veterans Affairs Hospitals VA and various Department of Mental Health DMH hospitals like Taunton State Hospital, and private hospitals in Massachusetts Metro-West, St. Lukes, Charlton Memorial, Pembroke, Arbour-Fuller in addition to the Harvard and BU affiliated hospitals in Boston. He also has an outpatient clinic where he sees patients for therapy and psychopharmacology longitudinally throughout the year. Dr. Nader has also been interested in the science and did a cross sectional study of the Prevalence of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Student Sample. He also participated with two Harvard Day Mysell posters, and a poster at the American Psychiatric Association APA yearly meeting about The Broken Heart Syndrome. In addition Dr. Nader did many presentations on Schizophrenia Manifestations, Neurochemistry and Genetics of Mental Illness, the Mechanism of Action of Antipsychotics, Mood Disorders manifestations and Etiology, Substance Dependence, the Anhedonia in Depression VS Schizophrenia, the Pizzagalli Computerized Signal Detection Task, Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Evidence Based Integrated Approach in Treating Somatization Disorder, Utilizing Nurse Practitioners in Treating Somatization Disorder, Substance P at the Nexus of Body and Brain,  The Anandamide Connection, and Dementia and Agitation in the Elderly. Dr. Nader is especially interested in creating more effective behavioral programs for different mental illnesses.Dr. Nader hopes that his experience contributes to the better care for his patients.

Specialty


Conditions Treated 


  • ADD / ADHD
  • Addiction
  • Alcohol Addiction
  • Anxiety, Depression, OCD, Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Mood and Sleep Disorders
  • Opioid Dependence
  • Panic Disorder
  • PTSD
  • Schizoaffective Disorder, schizophrenia, depression, substance abuse

Services & Procedures


  • Medication Management with supportive Psychotherapy
  • Suboxone Treatment for Opioid Addiction/Dependence
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Education & Training  


Medical School

  • Other
    MD • 2000


Residency

  • Harvard
    Residency in Psychiatry • 2006 - 2010


Fellowships

  • Boston University
    Fellowship in CL Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

  • Boston University
    Fellowship in CL Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine • 2010 - 2011


Languages Spoken  


  • Arabic
  • English
  • Russian

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