Adrian Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH

Dr. Adrian Jacques Ambrose is Medical Director at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York. Previously he was Medical Director at Beth Israel Lahey Health Behavioral Services in Danvers, Massachusetts. Prior to that, he was a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA, and staff psychiatrist specializing in telemedicine and consult-liaison psychiatry for the MGH Psychiatry Academy.  Professionally, Dr. Ambrose is passionate about the systemic factors of healthcare delivery and mental health inequity in pediatric ethnic and sexual minorities.  Dr. Ambrose's clinical interests include health policy, health finance, and technological innovations in pediatric mental health care.  As a physician leader, he has served on the governing council and board of trustees for national organizations, such as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Medical Association (AMA).  Dr. Ambrose received his medical degree from the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, and completed his residency in Adult Psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Ambrose has completed a fellowship in public health at the National Center for Primary Care (NCPC) as a Satcher Fellow and honored a postgraduate training program at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in value-based healthcare and clinical innovations.