Dr. Jeff Eisen describes his career path from a background in Business and Healthcare Operations to becoming the Chief Medical and Operating Officer for Behavioral Health at a large health system in Washington state and lessons learned along the way!

Timestamps:

00:10 Introductions

03:00 Business and Healthcare Operations Training

09:40 Prior Careers in Community Psychiatry

16:47 Current Role as a Chief Medical and Operating Officer for Behavioral Health

28:10 Final Words of Advice

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Guest:

Jeffrey Eisen, MD, MBA currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the Behavioral Health Network and Chief Operating Officer of Outpatient Services for the MultiCare Health System. In this role, Dr. Eisen leads the system-wide delivery of psychiatric services, which includes the development of a collaborative, coordinated system of behavioral healthcare across the region. In addition, Dr. Eisen holds a faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University. Prior to MultiCare, Dr. Eisen served as the Chief Medical and Health Integration Officer of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, the largest provider of community-based mental health and substance use treatment services in the state of Oregon. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Eisen served as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Eisen sat on the mental health advisory team and the opioid overdose epidemic task force for former Oregon Governor Kate Brown and was a consulting advisor to the mental health transformation team of California Governor Gavin Newsom. He is also the Past President of the Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Association, the state branch of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Eisen received his MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his postdoctoral residency in adult psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School. He was a fellow in forensic psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts, affiliated with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.  Dr. Eisen also holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, with certification in Public Management.

Host:

Angela Liu, MD is a second-year psychiatry resident and APA Public Psychiatry Fellow. 

Editor:

Zoe Wyse is a second-year medical student.

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