Lisa Rosenthal MD

Dr. Lisa J. Rosenthal is the Chief of the Division of Consultation Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Northwestern University Fellowship in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry. Her academic focus is on the medical care of patients with severe mental illness, delirium, hospital violence, and the collaborative care model. She is a distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP), and a Board Member of the ACLP.  Prior to becoming a physician, she worked in several community-based jobs helping people cope with severe psychiatric illnesses. Witnessing the disparities of our healthcare system sparked her passion for integrated and value-added psychiatric programs. Dr Rosenthal works to address morbidity, mortality, and disparities for populations of people with psychiatric syndromes through the implementation of value-added and population-based psychiatric interventions.

Dr. Rosenthal is the director of a Collaborative Care Program supporting population-based screening for depression and anxiety, serving more than 370,000 Primary Care patients throughout the Northwestern Medicine healthcare system. She is the Medical Director and PI of the Northwestern Medicine - West Health Accelerator, a funded, multi-year initiative to help transform mental health care by delivering and studying efficient, effective, and equitable integrated psychiatric programs. The collaboration builds upon the successes of the Northwestern Medicine Collaborative Behavioral Health Program (CBHP), which has been integrating psychiatric services into Northwestern Medicine primary care sites since 2018.