Harsh K. Trivedi, MD, MBA, is the sixth president and chief executive officer of Sheppard Pratt since its founding in 1853. He has served in this role since 2016. Dr. Trivedi is also a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, vice chair for clinical affairs in the Vanderbilt University Department of Psychiatry, and associate professor of psychiatry in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Trivedi is a nationally-renowned expert in healthcare, hospital systems, care delivery, population health, and behavioral health.
A graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Trivedi completed his general psychiatry residency at the Zucker Hillside Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his child and adolescent psychiatry training at Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Trivedi then served as director of adolescent services at Bradley Hospital and as assistant professor of psychiatry at Brown University.
In addition to his medical training, Dr. Trivedi completed his MBA at the University of Tennessee Haslam School of Business. He also completed a congressional fellowship and has drafted federal legislation that provided more than $150 million to help develop suicide prevention programs for children and adolescents and to help expand mental health services on college campuses across all 50 U.S. states and nine tribal territories. Dr. Trivedi serves as editor of Psychiatric Clinics of North America and is the author of Practical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Pediatrics and Primary Care.
Dr. Trivedi is the board chair of the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH), serves on the Executive Committee of the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA), and was a former trustee of the American Hospital Association. He is active in his community and serves on the board of The Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Community Foundation Board, and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He is married and has two sons.