We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rachad Rayess, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, to our team!

Dr. Rayess received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut and after a year of postdoctoral research, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to start adult psychiatry training at Harvard Medical School. He completed an adult psychiatry residency at the Harvard South Shore Residency Training Program in 2008 and then completed a child psychiatry fellowship at the Cambridge Program, a Harvard Medical School child psychiatry fellowship program, in 2010. Dr. Rayess then moved to Anchorage, Alaska where he worked in outpatient psychiatry (child and adult) for almost 10 years and recently moved back to Lebanon.

Dr. Rayess is board certified (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) in adult psychiatry and in child and adolescent psychiatry.

His areas of expertise include the diagnosis and management of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, OCD, PTSD, Mood Disorders, Childhood-Onset Psychosis and Schizophrenia.

His research interests include: childhood-onset psychosis, trauma and PTSD, and understanding the impact of a person's environment on their mental health.