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 fiscal year 2019 provided services to about 9,000 individuals with a budget of $188 million and a staff of more than 3,600 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. Dr. Bird also participated with academic institutions (including Harvard and Dartmouth) and software companies in four publicly and nine privately funded technology evaluation projects and partnered with seven 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.