Speaker Profile

Lindsey Mortenson, M.D, M.S., is a physician leader who builds on prior finance and public sector experience to strategically advance health and higher educational outcomes. At the University of Michigan (U-M), she serves as Chief Mental Health Officer for >52,000 students, executive director of University Health & Counseling (UHC), and clinical assistant professor in the U-M Medical School. She provides clinical care in the Psychiatric Emergency Service at the University of Michigan Hospital and at the UHC student psychiatry clinic. Engaging with college students across the continuum of care has informed her interest in improving the student experience within systems of care and building capacity for more data-informed approaches to improving these fragmented systems. She is board certified in psychiatry and board eligible in clinical informatics. These two specialties reflect her drive to improve data interoperability and build learning health systems that produce timely, novel insights that can improve quality of life. Dr. Mortenson is a national leader in the field of college health. At UHC she oversees 19 ambulatory service lines, including medical oversight for U-M�s NCAA Division I Power Four conference athletic medicine department. She has led many major U-M initiatives, including enhancing data analytic capacity and public health surveillance systems and merging previously silo-ed medical and mental health services. She is the former chair of the American College Health Association (ACHA) Emerging Public Health Threats Coalition and former secretary of the ACHA Mental Health section. Her academic scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorders, and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She has presented and written about a range of topics, including best and emerging practices in college health informatics. Her recent JAMA Network insights reflect her particular interest in the intersection of higher education and athletics. She is part of a U-M team that recently received an Agility Grant from the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) to develop a primary prevention educational campaign to raise awareness about problem gambling among college students. Dr. Mortenson earned her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, her master�s degree from Harvard Medical School, and her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia (UVA). At UVA she played Division I volleyball during her first year, earning all-conference academic honors before medically retiring. As a medical student at Columbia, she received the Barbara Liskin Memorial Award for excellence, empathy, and scholarship in the field of psychiatry. She completed residency training at the University of Michigan where she was a chief resident and received the George Ginsberg Fellowship from the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT) for excellence in education, teaching, and administration. Prior to medical school Dr. Mortenson was an analyst and associate in the investment banking (mergers and acquisitions) division of Credit Suisse First Boston and served a one-year term with AmeriCorps VISTA, the federal anti-poverty agency.