| Gary L. Gottlieb,
M.D., M.B.A. is President of Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical
School and Chairman of Psychiatry and Mental Health
System at Partners HealthCare System, Inc. While
training in health services research and geriatric
psychiatry as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Dr. Gottlieb received a Master’s Degree
in Business Administration in Health Care at the
Wharton School. Subsequently, he joined the faculty
of Penn’s Department of Psychiatry and became
its first Director of the Section of Geriatric
Psychiatry. Over the ensuing decade, he developed
one of the nation’s leading programs in
geriatric psychiatry which included an NIMH clinical
research center on psychopathology of the elderly
and the clinical cores of an NIA funded Alzheimer’s
Disease Center Core, and an NIA Program Project.
He recruited and nurtured a clinical and research
faculty whose extramural federal funding exceeded
$2.5 million annually. The foundation of this
program was a series of clinical activities including
a primary care evaluation program which integrated
geriatric psychiatric services in the mainstream
of health care.
As a member of the Leonard Davis Institute for
Health Economics at Penn, Dr. Gottlieb’s
research focused on costs, reimbursement and services
delivery for behavioral health care for older
people. Dr. Gottlieb’s research in geriatric
psychiatry has focused on brain function, behavior
and clinical management in normal aging, late
life depression, delirium and in Alzheimer’s
Disease.
In 1994, Dr. Gottlieb become Director and Chief
Executive Office of Friends Hospital, the nation’s
oldest freestanding psychiatric hospital. From
1994 through 1998, he re-engineered Friends’
clinical services, developing a vertically integrated
continuum of behavioral health services while
supporting Friends Quaker mission of providing
“moral treatment to those deprived of their
reason.” In the process, Friends Hospital’s
local market share more than doubled. In 1996,
Dr. Gottlieb forged a clinical, corporate and
academic relationship between Friends and the
University of Pennsylvania Health System, and
became the founding CEO of Penn-Friends Behavioral
Health Services. Penn-Friends, a jointly owned
not-for-profit was developed to ensure access
to the humane care fostered by Friends and to
continue to drive the clinical research engine
of the University of Pennsylvania’s Department
of Psychiatry while working to reinvent the classroom
for academic psychiatry. Between 1996 and Dr.
Gottlieb’s departure in 1998, Penn-Friends
grew to cover the behavioral health care for more
than 200,000 people and developed a unique model
of integrating behavioral health care with primary
care. In this short time, Penn-Friends was used
to foster several funded research projects including
an evaluation of the cost offset associated with
behavioral health services, integration of behavioral
health care with primary care for older people
and prevention of suicide in late life.
In October of 1998, Dr. Gottlieb joined the faculty
of Harvard Medical School as Professor and became
the first Chairman of Partners HealthCare System’s
Psychiatry and Mental Health System. In this capacity,
he is responsible for all psychiatric services,
training and research for the Massachusetts General
Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital,
McLean Hospital, Faulkner Hospital, Newton Wellesley
Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, and behavioral
health activities of Partners Community HealthCare,
Inc. Dr. Gottlieb is a past president of the American
Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and a former
member of the Department of Health and Human Services/Office
of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Alzheimer’s
Disease.
Concurrent with his chairmanship of Partners Psychiatry
and Mental Health, in 2000 Dr. Gottlieb served
as President of the North Shore Medical Center,
a 612-bed health system that includes Salem Hospital,
Union Hospital in Lynn and Shaughnessy Kaplan
Rehabilitation Hospital.
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