Full Name
Dr. Samuel Nordberg
Job Title
Chief of Behavioral Health
Company
Reliant Medical Group
Speaker Bio
Dr. Nordberg received his PhD at Penn State University in University Park, PA. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research at the Boston VA. He has authored over 40 publications on mental health systems redesign and data-driven care, and currently serves as Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health for both Atrius Health and Reliant Medical Group (RMG), with a combined primary care population of roughly one million patients. Prior to his current role, Dr. Nordberg served for five years as Chief of Behavioral Health for RMG, and prior to that as Medical Director for Informatics and Innovation for five years at Atrius Health. While at Atrius Health, Dr. Nordberg co-led a team that won the Massachusetts Hospital Association’s Accountable Care COMPASS award for innovation in behavioral health care delivery. A long time ago, Dr. Nordberg worked as a senior equity analyst on Wall St.
In his innovations work, Dr. Nordberg has focused on data-driven healthcare: using computational models to assess, stratify, and predict patient outcomes in real-world treatment settings, and to navigate patients to best-fit treatments in real-time – including into digital tools as front-line treatments. Dr. Nordberg has led the development of a learning health system at RMG to speed the development and initiation of practice-based research on innovative treatments and technologies, and has won over fifteen million dollars in innovation and development funds focused on next-generation care delivery in mental health. He led the development of the first nationally accredited all-virtual Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Center, and a just-in-time integrated BH model which diverts 2,000 patients from the emergency department annually. Chief among current initiatives is a programmatic examination of the use of digital tools for appropriate mental health patients, and the development of clinical decision support systems to recommend appropriate digital tools in the primary care setting. He was recently named as one of 2023’s Sages in Healthcare by United Health Group.
In his innovations work, Dr. Nordberg has focused on data-driven healthcare: using computational models to assess, stratify, and predict patient outcomes in real-world treatment settings, and to navigate patients to best-fit treatments in real-time – including into digital tools as front-line treatments. Dr. Nordberg has led the development of a learning health system at RMG to speed the development and initiation of practice-based research on innovative treatments and technologies, and has won over fifteen million dollars in innovation and development funds focused on next-generation care delivery in mental health. He led the development of the first nationally accredited all-virtual Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Center, and a just-in-time integrated BH model which diverts 2,000 patients from the emergency department annually. Chief among current initiatives is a programmatic examination of the use of digital tools for appropriate mental health patients, and the development of clinical decision support systems to recommend appropriate digital tools in the primary care setting. He was recently named as one of 2023’s Sages in Healthcare by United Health Group.
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