Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life is co-authored with Harvard psychiatrist, Paul Hammerness. Paul explains the neuroscience of the organized mind, based on his scientific expertise on the brain and behavior.

Dr. Hammerness is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Newton Wellesley Hospital. He completed his Adult Psychiatry Residency and Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the combined program of MGH-McLean Hospital.

He has been involved in research on the brain and behavior for the past 10 years, with a focus on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical researcher. He has lectured on the topic locally, nationally and internationally to other physicians, mental health professionals, educators, and families.

Dr. Hammerness has over 30 publications in peer reviewed journals, a dozen recent clinical communications on the topic of assessment and management of pediatric/adult ADHD and has authored a book on ADHD for Greenwood Publishing’s Biography of Disease Series. Dr. Hammerness has also served on the MGH Institutional Review Board, participating in the review of clinical trials within the MGH community.

In addition, Dr. Hammerness is the Director of a part-time outpatient practice in general Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Newton Wellesley Hospital, and provides psychopharmacology consultation to local pediatricians.