Virna Little PsyD, LCSW-r, MBA, CCM, SAP

Dr. Little is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Concert Health. She is responsible for clinical operations, training, recruiting, practice implementation, and clinical and administrative oversight. Dr. Little has a doctoral degree in psychology from California Coast University and a masters in social work from Fordham University. She has held faculty appointments at Columbia University and Mt Sinai.

In 2017, she joined the Center for Innovation in Mental Health (CIMH) at the City University of New York School of Public Health as Director of the Center for Innovation in Mental Health. For 22 years, Dr. Little has served as the Senior Vice President of Psychosocial Services and Community Affairs at the Institute for Family Health. Her responsibilities involved the oversight of integrated behavioral health services, specialty mental health centers, prenatal home visiting, school-based health care for homeless centers, 340B pharmacy program, and health home and case management services.

Dr. Little is a recognized speaker both nationally and internationally. Her presentations address the integration of primary care and behavioral health services, Collaborative Care; and the development of viable behavioral health services in community health settings.

Dr. Little has consulted for the National Council for Community Behavioral Health Providers, the AIMS center with many health foundations, primary care associations, and organizations. Dr. Little is known for her work in suicide prevention and has been a member of the Zero Suicide national faculty team since 2015. She speaks nationally training healthcare providers and organizations on how to deliver suicide safer care. She has assisted in forming Zero Overdose, to address the loss of life from unintentional overdose.

In recent years Dr. Little has served as board chair for the Hudson Valley American Health Association and Clinicians for the Underserved.