Dr Lisa J. Rosenthal is the Chief of the Division of Consultation Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is the Medical Director and PI of the Northwester Medicine West Health Accelerator, a funded, multi-year initiative to help transform mental health care by delivering and studying efficient, effective, and equitable integrated psychiatric programs. The collaboration builds upon the successes of the Northwestern Medicine Collaborative Behavioral Health Program (CBHP), which has been integrating psychiatric services into Northwestern Medicine primary care sites since 2018. CBHP supports population health interventions for depression and anxiety for more than 475,000 Primary Care patients throughout the Northwestern Medicine healthcare system. https://westhealthaccelerator.nm.org

As the medical director of inpatient psychiatry consultation at Northwestern Memorial hospital, her academic focus is on medical care of patients with severe mental illness, delirium, hospital violence, along with the collaborative care model and other models of mental health integration. She is a distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP), and a Board Member of the ACLP. Prior to becoming a physician, she worked in several community-based jobs helping people coping with severe psychiatric illnesses. Witnessing the disparities of our healthcare system sparked her passion for integrated and value-added psychiatric programs. Dr Rosenthal works to address morbidity, mortality, and disparities for populations of people with psychiatric syndromes, through implementation of value-added and population based psychiatric interventions.