Full Name
Trip Gardner
Job Title
MD, Chief Psychiatric Officer and Medical Director of Homeless Health Services
Company
Penobscot Community Health Care
Speaker Bio
Dr. Trip Gardner is the Chief Psychiatric Officer and Medical Director of Homeless Health Services at Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center in Bangor, Maine. PCHC provides 350,000 patient visits a year to 65,000 individuals, in 16 locations. In 2004, Gardner created a model that fully integrates mental health services including addiction into primary care. He has presented about integration more than 25 times throughout the country and has served on expert panels for HRSA, SAMHSA and NACHC. Gardner was the project director of the 2005 “Integrated Medical, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for People Who are Homeless” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant that helped establish the first homeless health center in the country to receive level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home certification. This homeless health center was featured in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s “A Guidebook of Professional Practices for Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration.” Gardner previously served for three years as a regional Medical Director for the State of Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services.
Trip Gardner