Chief Medical Officer, North Suffolk Mental Health Association
Harvard Medical School
Manjola Van Alphen, MD, PhD, MBA is the Chief Medical Officer for North Suffolk Mental Health Association (NSMHA), a member of the Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program, at Massachusetts General Hospital, and instructor in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Van Alphen received her MD with summa cum laude from the University of Bologna, Italy and went on to earn her PhD in Human Psychobiology from the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy. Dr. Van Alphen joined Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital as a visiting research fellow in 2006. She graduated from the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program in 2012 and obtained the MBA in Health Care program at Simmons University in 2018.
Dr. Van Alphen’s is an accomplished academic psychiatrist whose main focus currently is on bringing the best of her research and academic experience gained at the HMS system together with her entrepreneurial and leadership acumen, to the community. She has a longstanding interest in healthcare organizational leadership and its role in facilitating adaptation in a rapidly changing health care system. She is passionate about leveraging and implementing technological solutions to facilitate access to care for the most vulnerable individuals. Currently, in her dual role as psychiatrist at the SCRP and CMO for NSMHA she is working on building a collaboration bridge to bring the latest in clinical innovation in psychiatry from HMS and MGH to the local communities where it is most needed.