Full Name
Anne Bird MD
Job Title
Medical Program Director
Company
Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
Speaker Short Bio
Anne Bird, M.D.
Medical Program Director, Primary Care Mental Health Integration
Transforming Mental Health, Rady Children’s Hospital
Clinical Professor, University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Dr. Anne Bird is a Clinical Professor and a board-certified Pediatrician, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist, having completed her Triple Board Residency training at Mount Sinai in New York City. She has dedicated her 20+year career to improving access to mental health care for children and families.
Dr. Bird served in numerous clinical leadership roles across the mental health continuum of care in New York City. From 2016 to 2020 she served Medical Director for the UCSD Outpatient Psychiatry Services, where she helped build and develop programs focused on access, quality, education and clinician wellness. In 2019 Dr. Bird graduated from the California Health Care Foundation leadership fellowship - a program molding future healthcare leaders across California.
Since January 2021 Dr. Bird has served as the Medical Program Director for Rady Children’s Primary Care Mental Health Integration Program; part of the Transforming Mental Health Initiative. With passion and unwavering commitment, she has led the growth and development of this unique new model of care – with the goal to provide same-day access to mental health services embedded in the pediatrician’s office. This innovative model focuses on holistic whole-child care, providing early identification, early intervention, and early recovery for the mental health struggles of our San Diego and Riverside youth community. Since 2021, under the care of Dr. Bird, this program has growth from a handful of clinicians to a team of 30+, as has provided over 42,000 patient visits for over 8,500 unique patients across 12+ sites. Dr. Bird led the strategic vision of this exceptionally impactful new network of care, including a focus on clinical collaboration, inter-disciplinary education, training our future mental health workforce, supporting her pediatric colleagues and team engagement and provider wellness. Dr. Bird, with her team, has presented at over 15 conferences, nationally highlighting the importance of pediatric integrated-care. She has also successfully helped advocate in Washington D.C. for legislative reimbursement changes to expand this needed new model of care. Dr. Bird has an unwavering passion and dedication to improving the lives of our children through access, prevention and destigmatizing mental health, and will continue to help expand and scale this vision throughout our San Diego and Riverside communities and beyond.
Medical Program Director, Primary Care Mental Health Integration
Transforming Mental Health, Rady Children’s Hospital
Clinical Professor, University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Dr. Anne Bird is a Clinical Professor and a board-certified Pediatrician, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist, having completed her Triple Board Residency training at Mount Sinai in New York City. She has dedicated her 20+year career to improving access to mental health care for children and families.
Dr. Bird served in numerous clinical leadership roles across the mental health continuum of care in New York City. From 2016 to 2020 she served Medical Director for the UCSD Outpatient Psychiatry Services, where she helped build and develop programs focused on access, quality, education and clinician wellness. In 2019 Dr. Bird graduated from the California Health Care Foundation leadership fellowship - a program molding future healthcare leaders across California.
Since January 2021 Dr. Bird has served as the Medical Program Director for Rady Children’s Primary Care Mental Health Integration Program; part of the Transforming Mental Health Initiative. With passion and unwavering commitment, she has led the growth and development of this unique new model of care – with the goal to provide same-day access to mental health services embedded in the pediatrician’s office. This innovative model focuses on holistic whole-child care, providing early identification, early intervention, and early recovery for the mental health struggles of our San Diego and Riverside youth community. Since 2021, under the care of Dr. Bird, this program has growth from a handful of clinicians to a team of 30+, as has provided over 42,000 patient visits for over 8,500 unique patients across 12+ sites. Dr. Bird led the strategic vision of this exceptionally impactful new network of care, including a focus on clinical collaboration, inter-disciplinary education, training our future mental health workforce, supporting her pediatric colleagues and team engagement and provider wellness. Dr. Bird, with her team, has presented at over 15 conferences, nationally highlighting the importance of pediatric integrated-care. She has also successfully helped advocate in Washington D.C. for legislative reimbursement changes to expand this needed new model of care. Dr. Bird has an unwavering passion and dedication to improving the lives of our children through access, prevention and destigmatizing mental health, and will continue to help expand and scale this vision throughout our San Diego and Riverside communities and beyond.
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