Lois Choi-Kain, MD, MEd

Lois W. Choi-Kain, MEd, MD, is the director of the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute. The institute provides training and supervision for numerous proven treatments, including mentalization-based treatment (MBT), dialectical behavioral therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (DBT-PTSD), transference focused psychotherapy (TFP), and general psychiatric management (GPM). She works nationally and internationally to expand teaching efforts on borderline personality disorder and its evidence-based treatments and engages in research to study resources for training clinicians who need direction and patients who need access to informed care. With her mentor, John Gunderson, Dr. Choi-Kain developed a training program for GPM and has been expanding its applications. In 2009, Dr. Choi-Kain developed the Gunderson Residence, an specialized residential program for adult women with severe personality disorders. In 2013, she founded the BPD Training Institute, a major center for proliferating awareness of and evidence-based care for severe personality disorders. Dr. Choi-Kain has also developed training clinics in McLean’s Adult Outpatient Services for treatment approaches such as MBT and DBT-PTSD.

Education & Training

• Fellowship: McLean Hospital, Personality Disorders Research Fellowship, 2009
• Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatry, 2006
• Internship: Carney Hospital, Medicine, 2003
• Medical Education: Thomas Jefferson University, 2002
• Medical Education: Jefferson Medical School of Med., Doctor of Medicine, 2002

Board Certifications

• Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Languages Spoken

• English

Age Group Treated

• Adults