Alana Nagle, MD

Alana Nagle, MD is a triple board-certified adult and child psychiatrist. She completed psychiatry residency training at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program in June 2012. Her training included experience in multiple treatment settings (academic, private, community) across inpatient, partial and outpatient levels of care, with significant exposure to consult-liaison psychiatry, substance use treatment and psychopharmacology. She completed the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, gaining significant exposure to community mental health (cultural competence and interdisciplinary, biopsychosocial approaches to treatment) and trauma-informed care.

Following completion of the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship in 2014, Dr. Nagle worked for two years (half-time) as an attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on the acute adult inpatient psychiatry unit. In this role, she supervised residents from the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program and third-year medical students from Harvard Medical School, while treating patients with severe mental illness, substance use disorder and multiple medical comorbidities.

In 2018, she also completed her board certification for addiction medicine through the Board of Preventive Medicine, to validate her current expertise in addiction medicine and to pursue further knowledge and leadership in this area, given the prevalence of comorbid substance use in Eliot’s patient population.

Since completing her training, Dr. Nagle has worked as a child, adolescent and adult outpatient psychiatrist at Eliot Community Human Services, a community mental health organization based in the greater Boston area that primarily serves an ethnically diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged population. She initially served as director of child and adolescent psychiatry services for Eliot’s Lynn and Everett offices beginning in 2016. She was promoted to medical director in 2019 and then named chief medical officer of Eliot’s newly launched Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) programs in January 2022.

At Eliot, Dr. Nagle collaborates with nurse practitioners, therapists, case managers, state agencies (Department of Mental Health, Department of Children and Families, Department of Developmental Services) and clinic and executive leadership teams to provide direct care and evidence-based treatment approaches for a highly complex population. This population often presents with serious mental illness, extensive trauma, substance use disorder and significant social determinants of health, including homelessness, physical and sexual abuse and poverty.

Massachusetts launched its CBHC initiative statewide on Jan. 1, 2023, based on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model. Dr. Nagle was a core member of the leadership team responsible for launching Eliot’s two CBHC programs.