Bruce L. Bird, Ph.D.

Bruce L. Bird received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Houston in 1975.  He then spent four years at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, initially as a postdoctoral fellow in Pediatrics, then as staff and Assistant Professor in Neurology, where his work included clinical services and several federally funded research projects in behavioral medicine. Over his forty year career, he has served in administrative roles for a number of organizations. Since 2009 he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vinfen, a 39 year old non-profit community behavioral health and disability services organization,  which annually serves about 7,000 individuals throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut, with an annual operating budget of about $150 million, and a staff of about 2,800. Dr. Bird has also served on numerous statewide policymaking and provider organizations. He currently serves on the boards of the Association of Behavioral Healthcare of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Association of Mental Health, the Providers Council, the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers of Massachusetts, and on several Massachusetts policy and planning committees, including the Implementation Council of the Massachusetts Demonstration Project for Individuals with Dual Medicare and Medicaid eligibility. His recent research activities have included serving as principal investigator of a three year grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation evaluating a Community Behavioral Health Home model to integrate and improve health care for individuals with serious psychiatric conditions and leading several projects evaluating newly developed remote patient monitoring and smartphone technologies designed to help individuals with serious mental illness manage their mental and physical health.