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Kelly Irwin, MD, MPH

Director, Collaborative Care and Community Engagement Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Kelly Irwin, MD MPH is a psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, a health disparities researcher, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Irwin is the founding director of the Collaborative Care and Community Engagement Program, a clinical and research initiative dedicated to achieving equity in cancer and mental health care for individuals with serious mental illness. Dr. Irwin’s clinical research program focuses on developing and scaling interventions to improve cancer outcomes for people affected by mental illness and their caregivers. Her team successfully piloted Bridge, a person-centered collaborative care model for patients with serious mental illness and is now leading a randomized trial examining the impact of the Bridge model on cancer care. Dr. Irwin also co-founded the Engage Initiative, a stakeholder coalition with more than 900 members, which is dedicated to ensuring that mental illness is never a barrier to cancer care through person-centered research, clinical innovation, education, and advocacy. Dr. Irwin graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. She is currently President-Elect of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.

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