Natalie Lester MD, MPH, MBA

Natalie Lester, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is medical director of OneFifteen. In her current position, Dr. Lester works in partnership with Samaritan Behavioral Health to launch treatment services in Dayton, Ohio, including OneFifteen’s outpatient, intensive outpatient, and crisis stabilization programs. She remains directly involved in patient care and is working toward expanding OneFifteen’s clinical offerings to include the full spectrum of ASAM levels of care on a single campus.

Dr. Lester received her medical degree from Vanderbilt University and completed her psychiatry residency at Brown University. In 2012, she returned to her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, where she joined The Ohio State University as a faculty member in the department of psychiatry and behavioral health. While at Ohio State, she served as the director of psychiatric emergency services and the associate chief quality officer for behavioral health, and, in these roles, she led the deployment of telepsychiatry services and an expanded array of mental health services throughout the medical center. Dr. Lester has a longstanding interest in development and provision of novel behavioral healthcare models. She has also an MPH from Harvard University and an MBA from Ohio State.