Tristan Gorrindo, MD

Tristan Gorrindo, MD, is the chief mental health officer for Optum Behavioral Care, and he is committed to advancing the field of psychiatry by implementing innovative care delivery models, developing apps and other tools to support measurement-based care, advocating for improvements in mental health policy, empowering individuals with lived experience and helping all mental health clinicians deliver high-quality, value-based care.

Through his national care transformation projects, Dr. Gorrindo has demonstrated the power of technology and innovation to improve the lives of patients. He established the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Psychiatry Innovation Lab in 2015 and the Mental Health Innovation Zone in 2016, and he has developed two smartphone apps to assist clinicians. He oversaw the creation of a cross-organizational data infrastructure that feeds into a centralized data repository and allows APA to better understand the needs of its members and customers in real time. He is the principal investigator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services-funded Clinical Support System for Serious Mental Illness — an innovative, $14.2 million national initiative that leverages technology and expert consultation to help mental health clinicians implement evidence-based care for those with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and recurrent major depression.  

At Optum Behavioral Care, Dr. Gorrindo is focused on implementing innovative new models of care, leveraging technology platforms to expand access, and using patient- and community-level analytics to create high-impact behavioral health care programs for patients. As the chief mental health officer, he works closely with the leadership team, technology companies, implementation experts, data scientists and clinical champions within health systems to evaluate and demonstrate the fidelity of these new models in real-world settings across the country.

Dr. Gorrindo is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who previously worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Since 2005, he has provided clinical care to pediatric patients living with mental illness, with a specialty in treating those with anxiety disorders.