The former president of McLean Hospital outside Boston has admitted to sexual misconduct and is now under investigation. The Boston Globe reported this week that Jack Gorman, who resigned from McLean in 2006, admitted to the New York Board of Professional Medical Conduct that he had inappropriate sexual contact with a patient. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health directed McLean to look into whether Gorman abused patients at the hospital.

Gorman was a long time psychiatrist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Columbia University. His research examined panic and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental illnesses. Some of Gorman's most cited work includes studies on the effects of lactate on panic attacks (cited 313 times), self-awareness of illness in schizophrenic patients (cited 262 times), and the role of corticotropin-releasing factor in linking early life stress to adult psychopathology (cited 252 times). His most cited paper is a 1985 review of social phobia, cited 334 times.