Mary C. Zanarini, Ed.D., is Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Zanarini earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard College and her doctoral degree at Harvard as well.  She later completed a clinical and research fellowship in Psychology in the Psychosocial Research Program at McLean Hospital.

Dr. Zanarini is Chair of the NIMH Workgroup for the Development of Guidelines for Treatment Research on BPD and Chair of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Task Force on Personality Disorders.  An active researcher, she is currently Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on three NIMH-funded studies:  two investigating the long-term course of BPD and one investigating the genetics of BPD. Through her research, she has developed measures to assess various aspects of borderline psychopathology such as the Diagnostic Interview for Personality Disorders and the Zanarini Rating Scale for DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder. The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder recently presented her with the Herbert Pardes Senior Investigator Award.

Widely published, Dr. Zanarini is a reviewer or editorial board member of numerous scientific journals, including Archives of General Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Personality Disorders, and Biological Psychiatry. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, the Association for Clinical Psychosocial Research, and the Association for Psychological Science.