Jorge R. Petit, MD is a board-certified Adult, Community and Public psychiatrist and healthcare executive leader with over 30 years of focused attention on innovation and healthcare transformation for those most in need and vulnerable—people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, those struggling with mental health and substance use challenges, individuals in poverty, facing eviction or homelessness, and all those marginalized, unemployed and disadvantaged. Promoting social justice action-oriented approaches to increase access to: health and behavioral health supports, services and treatment; safe and dignified affordable/supportive housing settings; education and meaningful employment opportunities as well as ensuring social drivers of inequity like food insecurity, unsafe neighborhoods and lack of transportation are eradicated with intentional and deliberative grass-roots community building and engagement. Leadership through compassion, humility and bringing one's authentic self to serving others in need.

 Dr. Petit is the founder and CEO of Quality Healthcare Solutions (QHS) providing consultation, strategic planning, advisory and technical assistance services to health care systems, community-based providers, emerging technology start-ups, and regulators with a special focus on behavioral health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and social services. Dr. Petit’s work includes facilitating strategic planning, C-suite and board development/governance best practices, medical leadership training and mentorship, workforce development, development of Independent Practice Associations, and other healthcare transformation efforts, such as Certified Community Based Health Centers (CCBHC) throughout the U.S. He is a thought leader, speaker, author and blogger BH: Matters.

He serves as Strategic and Development Advisor for Zero Overdose as well as Chief Clinical Advisor to Cantata Health Solutions and Clinical Advisor to Emotivo Health and Verity Health. He was most recently the President and CEO for Services for the UnderServed (S:US); a community-based, multi-service nonprofit that drives scalable solutions to transform the lives of people with disabilities, people in poverty, and people facing homelessness: solutions that contribute to righting societal imbalances.

Dr. Petit is an active member of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) National Advisory Council and sits on the board of Cantata Health Solutions, Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) and Mental Health News Education (MHNE). He is a member of the Committee on Psychiatric Administration & Leadership in the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), United Hospital Fund (UHF) Health Policy Forum, as well as a member of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Medical Director Institute (MDI).

Prior to S:US, Dr. Petit was the President and CEO for Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of care for individuals with serious mental illness, chronic health conditions and/or substance use disorders, through a Health Home, an Independent Practice Association (IPA) and an Innovations Hub.

Dr. Petit was the Regional Senior Vice President for New York State for Beacon Health Options and before that was the Founder and President of Quality Healthcare Solutions, a consulting firm that provided training and consulting services for healthcare systems including community-based behavioral health agencies, hospital systems, and local and state regulatory entities. He was the former Associate Commissioner for the Division of Mental Hygiene in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Dr. Petit is extensively published and the author of Handbook of Emergency Psychiatry and The Seven Beliefs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help Latinas Recognize and Overcome Depression and the recipient of the 2023 Honoree from Marquis Who’s Who, Crain’s New York Business 2022 Notable LGBTQ Leader, City & State New York 2022 Nonprofit Power 100, and City & State New York 2022 Responsible 100.