Bruce L. Bird, Ph.D.

Bruce L. Bird joined Vinfen in 2003 as COO, and has served as President and CEO since 2010.  Vinfen is a large non-profit community behavioral health and disability service company, which in FY 2019 will provide services to about 9000 individuals with a budget of about $188M and a staff of over 3600 throughout locations in Eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut. Dr. Bird lists several areas of focus at Vinfen, including developing an Innovation Center which: has established and is continuing to operate a community behavioral health home with sustained year over year growth in funding though the Massachusetts Duals Demonstration program; participated with academic institutions (including Harvard and Dartmouth) and software companies in 4 publicly and 9 privately funded technology evaluation projects; partnered with 7 other community organizations and contracting with 14 healthcare ACO/MCO systems to provide health home care coordination services in the new Massachusetts Medicaid Healthcare reform program. Dr. Bird serves on numerous statewide policymaking and provider organizations and is active in legislative and policy advocacy, including serving as the current vice-chair of the board of the Association of Behavioral Healthcare of Massachusetts.  He is a licensed psychologist, has served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the associate faculty of the Harvard Department of Psychiatry, and is currently involved in several formal technology research evaluation projects.