David Adler, MD, is the President and Treasurer at Health and Productivity Sciences, Inc., with major roles in innovation, evidence-generation, training, consultation, and management. David has spent his career working to improve the personal quality and work life of life of people with common mental health problems. He is a leader in health care, a master clinician, teacher, clinical scientist, executive coach, and organizational consultant. You may know his ground-breaking work on improving individual functioning and well-being in his capacity as Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and senior investigator in the Program for Health, Work and Productivity at Tufts Medical Center. In that latter role, he and Debra Lerner have created the Be Well@Work Program to provide employee-centered care for working individuals with common mental health problems. David has held a variety of senior management positions at Tufts Medical Center including clinical supervisor of multiple primary care collaborative care teams. Additionally, David has served as an organizational and clinical consultant to numerous health care provider and payer organizations and chaired the Psychopathology Committee of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry-a national think tank. David received the 2006 Distinguished Tufts University School of Medicine Faculty Award, and the 2023 Distinguished Service Award for Advancement of Psychiatry by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Association. He has been one of Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston Physicians (2010-2025), and Castle Connolly’s Best Doctors USA. As a scientist, David has been awarded over 30 research grants, and has published extensively on the topics of depression, schizophrenia, and personality disorders, health policy, psychotherapy, mental health services, and outcomes assessment. David obtained his psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts Mental Health Center, his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, and his BA from the University of Rochester. He currently resides in the Boston area.
