David Soskin received his BA and MD from Harvard University and completed residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and McLean Hospital Psychiatric Residency Program before joining the MGH Department of Psychiatry. He served on faculty at Harvard Medical School and as a Principle Investigator at MGH's Depression and Clinical Research Program. His research focused on the relationship between depression and inflammation; the use of pro-dopaminergic agents to enhance behavioral activation therapy for treatment-resistant depression; the effects of antidepressants on emotional temperament; and the evaluation of other novel agents, such as low dose naltrexone, to treat unipolar depression.  He developed the website, Open Source Psychiatry, as a resource for patients and clinicians.