Carlene MacMillan, MD is Medical Director at Osmind, the leading software solution for ketamine clinics and treatment-resistant mental health. She is also the co-Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Minds Psychiatry, a multidisciplinary team-based multi-site practice in the NYC Region. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and completed her adult psychiatry residency and child and adolescent fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. Dr. Macmillan has a long-standing interest in helping individuals with severe, persistent and complex mental illness. Prior to relocating to NYC, she was an attending on the Trauma and Dissociative Unit at McLean Hospital. In NY, she has held a faculty position at the NYU Langone School of Medicine and was the founding Medical Director of the Ellenhorn NYC Private Assertive Community Treatment Team, a leader in community integration and championing "hospitals without walls". Her practice was an early adopter of providing Esketamine and obtaining insurance coverage for it. She has had extensive experience in advocating for increased insurance-based access to psychiatric services at the local and national level. As part of her work for a non-profit called Emotions Matter, she drafted a guide for clinicians and families to use to obtain Single Case Agreements for coverage of evidence-based treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder. She is an active member of the Clinical Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Society Insurance Committee, which fosters working relationships with payers and develops ideal policies for coverage of TMS. These experiences can translate well into advocating for adequate coverage of interventions such as ketamine infusions for mental health indications. Dr.MacMillan also is working with payers around innovative Value Based Care payment models which lend themselves well to many of the psychedelic medicine interventions Dr.MacMillan also serves as the Co-Chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consumer Issues Committee which publishes psychoeducational resources for patients and families on a wide range of mental health topics. She is a former member of the APA Assembly and was very active in the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society throughout residency and fellowship prior to relocating to New York several years ago.