Candidate for 2025 President-Elect
Biography
Harsh K. Trivedi, M.D., M.B.A. is a dual board-certified child & adolescent psychiatrist and general adult psychiatrist. He is the president and chief executive officer of Sheppard Pratt, a U.S. News and World Report Top Hospital and the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of psychiatric services. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and vice chair in the Vanderbilt University Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Trivedi is a nationally renowned expert in healthcare policy, physician reimbursement, population health, scope of practice, and systems of care.
Academically, he is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Trivedi has long championed making evidence-based best practices readily accessible for our field. He is editor of the APA Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry and has served as editor of the Psychiatric Clinics of North America and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. He has received numerous prestigious awards and is frequently featured in local and national media.
The APA has been an integral part of his career development, and he is interested in ensuring that the APA propels your success as well. He is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed his general psychiatry residency at the Zucker Hillside Hospital/Northwell Health. He completed his child and adolescent psychiatry training at Children’s Hospital Boston. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Trivedi earned his Physician Executive MBA at the University of Tennessee Haslam School of Business.
Dr. Trivedi is a former APA Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellow. In the US Senate, he drafted legislation that has provided over $150 million to prevent suicide in youth and to expand college mental health services across all 50 U.S. states and nine tribal territories. He is also past chair of the APA Council on Healthcare Systems and Financing and served on the APA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Psychiatry.
Dr. Trivedi has deep connections across national organizations and wants to ensure that APA’s voice is heard. He is the immediate past board chair of the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH), serves on the Executive Committee of the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA), is a Commissioner of The Joint Commission, and is a former trustee of the American Hospital Association. He has also represented psychiatry on the APA delegation to the American Medical Association. He is married and has two teenage children.
Education
- Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine (2016-Present)
- Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (2010-2016)
- Assistant Professor, Brown Medical School (2007-2010)
- Instructor, Harvard Medical School (2004-2006)
Awards and Honors
- 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare Nominee, Modern Healthcare (2024)
- Great Leaders in Healthcare, Becker’s Hospital Review (2024)
- Power 30 Health Care List, Maryland Daily Record (2023)
- Leaders in Health Care Award, Baltimore Business Journal (2022)
- Most Admired CEO, Maryland Daily Record (2021)
- Outstanding Physician Leader of the Year, University of Tennessee Haslam School of Business (2012)
- Best Doctor, Best Doctors Inc. (2010-2016)
- Leadership Award, American Medical Association Foundation (2005)
- Farley Fund Fellowship, Children’s Hospital Boston (2005)
- Von L. Meyer Award, Children’s Hospital Boston (2005)
- Jeanne Spurlock MD Congressional Fellowship, American Psychiatric Association (2003)
- Outstanding Resident Award, Indo-American Psychiatric Association (2003)
- Outstanding Resident Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2002-2003)
- Stanley Scholars Research Fellowship in Psychiatry (2000)