Meet Our Medical Director
Dr. Louis Joseph, M.D.
Dr. Louis Joseph is a decorated medical doctor and psychiatrist who has worked in leadership positions at some of the world’s premier medical institutions. He is a native Midwesterner with a bi-continental European-American upbringing and identity.
Dr. Joseph graduated medical school achieving membership in the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Dr. Joseph completed the Howard Hughes Medical Institute- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Program in Bethesda, Maryland where he conducted important clinical and translational research.
Dr. Joseph went on to serve as Chief Psychiatry Resident at the George Washington University Hospital Consultation Liaison Service where he cared for patients with both psychiatric and general medical conditions. Concurrently, Dr. Joseph served as a Prison Diversion Team Psychiatrist. He completed a Fellowship in Health Policy at the George Washington University and continues in this work, serving as an ongoing expert advisor to governmental agencies on topics of Mental Illness and Integrated Care.
Dr. Joseph acted as the Physician Leader of the Emergency Psychiatric Service at The Henry Ford Health System. Dr. Joseph sat on various committees and was an invited member to the Ford Motor Company Innovation Workgroup. Dr. Joseph was recipient of multiple teaching awards including the prestigious David C. Leach teaching award.
Dr. Joseph served the dual roles of Chairman of Psychiatry and Chairman of Policy and External Affairs within the Mayo Clinic Care Network. As dual Chairman, Dr. Joseph assisted in optimizing underperforming clinical enterprises and assets within the health network in his role as an acting operating partner/interim executive. Dr. Joseph has co-founded an insurance company, serving as its Board Chairman and investment committee member.
In his spare time as a fine art connoisseur, Dr. Joseph served as partner in an art advisory firm where he developed a novel fine art acquisition strategy that has seen successful implementation. Dr. Joseph is part of a team that was credited with the discovery of a lost master work. Dr. Joseph continues his artistic pursuits as an avid collector for the Joseph Family Collection and is a sitting council member at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Having spent his professional years in an array of sectors from finance to public health and medicine, Dr. Joseph is uniquely equipped to understand the needs of his patients. He has spent years forming care relationships with indigent patients in inner cities, members of the elite, and communities of the differently-abled in rural America. Whether performing TMS and other somatic procedures on the neuropsychiatry ward, teaching medical students and resident physicians in the academic arena, working Emergency Rooms in disaster zones and underserved areas, providing expert testimony in courts of law, administering novel, life-altering pharmacotherapy to those struggling with substance use, checking in with elderly patients at the nursing home, or manning informational booths at country fairs, Dr. Joseph has enjoyed practicing psychiatry across a multitude of settings with an incredibly diverse patient population. There are few facets of psychiatry that have escaped his energetic passion for mental exploration and compassionate care.
Dr. Joseph’s own distinct history, kindhearted demeanor, and immersive commitment to his diverse body of long-term care relationships have afforded him a unique facility with co-creators from all walks of life and tremendous insight into the anthropological, sociological, political, and spiritual dimensions of psychiatry.
Dr. Joseph’s multidimensional oeuvre affords him the ability to co-create with leaders in the upper echelons of finance, tech, government, and academia.
Dr. Joseph was an early adopter of the telehealth model and personally understands its utility when traveling between residences himself. He respects telehealth’s unique ability to facilitate the person-to-person connection on a humane level.
For his highly mobile, international clientele, Dr. Joseph is available for evening and weekend meetings
“We need to be careful stewards of our money and the incentives we create for health. We need to do so from an informed position, keeping in mind the overall aim which isn’t necessarily treating the sick, but keeping people well.”
– Louis Joseph, M.D.