Paul Summergrad, MD is Vice-President at Health and Productivity Sciences, Inc., with major roles in business development, training, consultation, and management. Paul Summergrad, MD, is an internationally recognized leader in psychiatry, health system innovation, and academic medicine. He has helped shape psychiatric and integrated care delivery at the institutional, state, national, and international levels. Dr. Summergrad continues to advise health systems, universities, and global organizations on leadership, strategic planning, and the future of mental health care, and consults with companies and individuals on strategy and leadership development.
He served as the 141st President of the American Psychiatric Association and is a past President of the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry. A widely respected voice in behavioral health policy, he led the APA’s influential work on psychiatry’s role in health care reform and the APA’s landmark Milliman report on the total medical cost of psychiatric illness. Dr. Summergrad is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center, where he served as the Dr Frances S. Arkin Professor and Chairman and Psychiatrist-in-Chief from 2004 to 2023. He was also the founding Chairman of the Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization, later serving as its interim President and CEO. He serves as Secretary for Finances and as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Psychiatric Association. A board-certified psychiatrist, internist, and psychosomatic medicine specialist, Dr. Summergrad has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and commentaries. He co-edited The Textbook of Medical Psychiatry and serves on the editorial board of World Psychiatry the highest impact journal in psychiatry. Among many honors, he received the APA’s Distinguished Service Award in 2024.
He completed his psychiatric residency at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, he graduated in 1978 from The Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo. Paul resides in the Boston area.
