Vanderbilt Psychiatric boss leaving for Maryland job

The newly appointed — and first — CEO of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital will soon leave that post to lead a prominent Baltimore-based mental health and substance abuse system.

Harsh Trivedi, who came to Vanderbilt six years ago after working at Brown University and Bradley Hospital/Brown Medical School, has been named president and CEO of Sheppard Pratt Health System. Word of his appointment comes less than two months after the chief medical officer of Vanderbilt Behavioral Health was tapped to lead Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and coordinate behavioral health services across the Vanderbilt University Medical Center complex.