Dr. Pollock Wurman is an Instructor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biological Anthropology at Harvard College in 1993, and her Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at Yale University in 2001. She completed her Clinical Internship at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Pollock Wurman continued her post doctoral training with several research fellowships, including the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, VA Boston Healthcare System and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She received an NIMH funded post-doc as part of the Clinical Research Training Program in Biological/ Social Psychiatry and continued her research at the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School. She also completed a clinical fellowship in the Child Psychiatry Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Pollock Wurman's research and clinical research interests focus on anxiety disorders, specifically, cognitive and temperamental risk factors for childhood anxiety and the etiology and prevention of childhood anxiety disorders. She has designed and implemented ecologically-valid and age-appropriate tools to assess cognitive biases in children at-risk for anxiety and their family members. She developed a novel paradigm utilizing psychophysics and statistical decision theory to examine how methods of psychoacoustics can be applied to answer clinical questions about anxiety sensitivity (AS), the fear of physiological sensations associated with arousal and panic.
Dr. Pollock Wurman subsequently piloted these methods in children ages 7-17 in a well-established cohort of children followed longitudinally from infancy. She has focused on the temperamental risk factor of anxiety; behavioral inhibition (BI).
She also investigates the familiality of heartbeat perception and the associations of heartbeat perception with identified genetic markers of anxiety.

Dr. Pollock Wurman is a research consultant for a longitudinal study of BI and its outcomes in offspring at-risk for panic disorder and major depression. In addition, she supervises doctoral students and collaborates with researchers in Northern Finland to examine anxiety disorders, and information-processing in a family genetic study of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Clinically, Dr Pollock Wurman has been an Assistant in Psychology, conducting cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in the Outpatient Child Psychiatry Department at MGH and has supervised interns in the use of CBT in anxious children and adolescents. She is an Associate at the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Resource Center of Florida.

Dr. Pollock Wurman has published over 40 original papers, book chapters, review articles, and abstracts as well as presented numerous symposia, workshops and posters at national and international conventions. She has been a reviewer for several journals, and is currently the Director of Editorial Operations of Cureus.