Dr. Tamir Aldad is a fellowship trained addiction psychiatrist and the founder and CEO of Mindful Care - the award winning first-ever psychiatric urgent care chain in the United States. Dr. Aldad graduated with an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and completed residency and fellowship training at Northwell Health, after graduating medical school. He also conducted several years of behavioral health research as a physician scientist at Yale School of Medicine. He is passionate about acute mental health issues, public mental health, and improving access to affordable care.
Our mental health system is not designed to treat people in crisis. Instead of being administered right away and effectively, it shoves patients through a maze of barriers. If we are serious about saving lives, then we must reconsider how mental health care is administered.