Physician Health Services, Inc. (PHS), is a nonprofit corporation that was founded by the Massachusetts Medical Society to address issues of physician health. PHS is a confidential resource for physicians and medical students who may benefit from help
addressing stress, burnout, work-life balance issues, and a variety of physical and behavioral health concerns that sometimes arise in today’s hectic health care environment. These include substance use difficulties, cognitive issues, psychiatric
problems, the stress of medicolegal situations, and interpersonal challenges at work or at home. PHS provides resources to those who seek our services, and is designed to provide assessments and also monitor those in need for the recovery of substance
use disorders, behavioral health concerns, occupational problems, or mental or physical illness. Steven A. Adelman, M.D., a board-certified psychiatrist with subspecialty expertise in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine became the director
of PHS in March 2013. With the help of physician associate directors located throughout Massachusetts, Dr. Adelman assists physicians, medical students, hospitals, colleagues, and family members of physicians who may be at risk.
Board of Directors
Glenn Pransky, M.D., President, Chair
Booker Bush, M.D.
Jennifer Childs-Roshak, M.D., MBA
Lois Cornell
Alexa B. Kimball, M.D., MPH
Mary Kraft, M.D.
Dustin Patil, M.D.
Stephen Tosi, M.D.
Glenn Pransky, M.D.
President & Chair
Dr. Pransky is Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health, and Quantitative Health Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and visiting lecturer at Harvard School of Public Health and the University of
Massachusetts/Lowell. He is a senior editor for the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. Dr. Pransky founded and directed the Center for Disability Research at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute from 1999-2017. His research group investigated
disability prevention strategies, enhancing recovery in musculoskeletal disorders, work disability in older workers, and interventions to achieve safe, sustained return to work. Dr. Pransky is board certified in occupational medicine and internal
medicine, and has co-authored over 130 articles in the scientific literature. He has served on the PHS Clinical Advisory Committee since 1992, and chairs the PHS Impact and Research Committee.
Bara Litman-Pike, Psy.D.
Executive Director
Dr. Litman-Pike, Psy.D., joined the PHS team as Executive Director
in April, 2019. Dr. Litman-Pike, a clinical psychologist, brings a background in behavioral health, addiction, employee assistance, health promotion, and business. As Vice President of Client Services in a national Employee Assistance Program (EAP),
she developed a multi-state Impaired Pharmacist Program, did outreach and program development, was instrumental in increasing revenue through sales, and oversaw quality assurance and risk management. Most recently, at MIT, she helped choose and launch
the first external EAP at MIT, overseeing implementation, quality, and program promotion. Dr. Litman-Pike has consulted to workplaces, including healthcare systems, on creating programs for safety sensitive positions, including DOT covered jobs,
and drug-free workplaces, along with stress management and compassion fatigue assessment and training for healthcare professionals. She was a Disaster Mental Health Volunteer and Team Lead for the Mass Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross from 2000
– 2013. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP), now William James College.
Mary Anna Sullivan, M.D.
Interim Medical Director
Mary Anna Sullivan, M.D. is the former Chief Medical Officer of Behavioral Services at Lahey Health System, where she oversaw efforts to integrate behavioral health in primary care and worked to improve access to specialty psychiatric and addiction care
across the system. She has served as president of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors and formerly chaired the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, where she headed a statewide effort to encourage physician
involvement in hospitals’ quality improvement efforts.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she completed a residency at McLean Hospital and served as chief resident in psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a board-certified psychiatrist
with extensive clinical and administrative experience in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine.
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