Courtney Phillips, MD, VP & Chief Behavioral Health & Clinical Innovations Officer
Courtney Phillips, M.D. is the Vice President and Chief of Behavioral Health and Clinical Innovations for the Health Care District of Palm Beach County. She provides oversight, implementation, and coordination of the expansion of mental health and substance use disorder crisis service systems and a continuum of the Health Care District’s mental healthcare outpatient services. In this role, she also supervises the community health centers’ behavioral health leadership team, closely coordinates with Florida Atlantic University Psychiatric Residency program providers and serves as a psychiatry preceptor for the Family Medicine Residency Program at Lakeside Medical Center, the District’s public, rural teaching hospital.
A board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Phillips was most recently the Director of Behavioral Health for the community health centers (Federally Qualified Health Centers), where she oversaw the psychiatric, behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs.
From 2022 to 2023, she served as Statewide Director of Opioid Recovery for the Florida Department of Children and Families in coordination with the Florida Department of Health where she supported the Coordinated Opioid Recovery (CORE) Program that was modeled after the Health Care District’s evidence-based and award-winning outpatient addiction treatment program.
Dr. Phillips has a passion for evidence-based outpatient integrated psychiatric care and has worked in many psychiatric settings, including serving as the medical director at Wayside House and Access Recovery Solutions in Palm Beach County. With substance use disorders, she has experience with Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for alcohol and opioid use disorders (including buprenorphine maintenance, methadone, and naltrexone), detoxification, dual diagnosis, and abstinence-based treatment.
Dr. Phillips attended medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She completed her internship and residency in general adult psychiatry at the University of Michigan Health System/VA Ann Arbor. Dr. Phillips is certified in General Adult Psychiatry (ABPN) and is board certified in addiction medicine (ABPM).
Dr. Phillips is a member of the American Psychiatric Association. Her areas of professional interest include dual diagnosis, Medication Assisted Treatment, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, integrated behavioral health care and increasing access to quality mental health care.