Sarah Fineberg, MD, PhD

Sarah Fineberg is a physician scientist with primary interests in studying problems with social cognition and development of novel approaches to decrease the distress and risks associated with disruptions in social cognition. The Fineberg lab primarily focuses on the population of adults with Borderline Personality Disorder and some related conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Dr. Fineberg attended Oberlin College where she studied French, Italian, and Biology. She loved the intersection of narrative with science in her Biology classes and continues to center this approach in her research work. At Oberlin, and then in the MD/PhD program at the University of Iowa, she enjoyed community service and community-based medicine, and is proud to locate her current clinical and research work at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, a longstanding collaboration between Yale Psychiatry and the State of Connecticut to provide compassionate care to the most vulnerable people in our community and to co-locate cutting edge mental health research.

Dr. Fineberg enjoys working with trainees and in addition to working with lab members to foster creative new work, she co-directs the Dwight Hall Community Mental Health Fellowship for Yale undergraduate students (applications open each February) and the Yale Psychiatry Advanced HBCU medical student research program.

In her free time Dr. Fineberg enjoys reading fiction, gardening, watching the turkeys in her front yard, and ambitious projects in the kitchen. She is a terrible runner and guitar player, but keeping at it.