Dr. Robert E. Accordino
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Dr. Robert E. Accordino is a physician executive and passionate champion of mental health parity, currently serving on the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School faculty. In 2020, he was named to Modern Health Care's Top 25 Emerging Leaders list.
Dr. Accordino previously served as the chief medical officer at Ontrak Health, chief mental health officer at Quartet Health, and the chief of psychiatry and behavioral health at CareMore Health System. In 2016, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the White House Fellowship, a year-long, non-partisan program founded in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson to foster public service and leadership development. In this capacity, he advised the secretaries of defense of the Obama and Trump administrations on health care delivery, technology, and payment innovation for service members and their families. Dr. Accordino received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for this work, among the highest civilian honors in the Department of Defense.
Board-certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, he completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Massachusetts General, McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School, and a residency in general psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital of Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Accordino continues to practice psychiatry and teach medical students and residents. Throughout his medical career, he has actively engaged in clinical research, resulting in more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and articles, and over 80 conference, seminar, and grand rounds presentations.
In 2007, as a first-year medical student, he founded the nonprofit organization Music for Autism, serving as executive director and leading the charity's fully subsidized programs' national expansions.
Dr. Accordino received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University; a Master of Science in experimental psychology from the University of Oxford as a Fulbright and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar; and an M.D. with Distinction in research and medical education as a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
