Dr. Mathieu Bermingham,

Panelist

Mathieu Bermingham, MD, graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine and subsequently completed a combined residency in adult psychiatry and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. He is the Medical Director of Children Services of Roxbury, has a private practice in Metro-West: the Metro-West Center for Well Being. The Center is founded on the principle that peace and well-being are essential for all people in order to maintain a balanced life, a healthy environment and a community without violence, conflict and disease. He is a consultant to the Department of Mental Health in early childhood mental health. He is the former psychiatrist for Central Massachusetts MCPAP region, and he was a consulting psychiatrist at Coordinated Family-Focused Care. He was a founder of the Haitian Mental Health Network created in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

While still in medical school, Dr. Bermingham’s interest in the inter-relationship between Trauma and violence, lead him to use his Albert Schweitzer Urban Fellowship, to developed a violence prevention program for young boys at the Grover Cleveland middle schools in Dorchester. His conviction in the importance of listening, especially to those with lived experience, has motivated his enduring collaboration with various advocacy organizations: He is long time member of the boards of the Professional Parent Advocacy League (PPAL); Board or Directors President for the Massachusetts chapter of National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI); IN the past few years, he has been especially active in the infant and early children’s mental health Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health: Birth to Six (MassAIMH); and the Professional Advisory Committee on Child and Adolescent Mental Health of the State Mental Health Planning Council (PAC). He is also the current c