Dr. Tam T. Nguyen is a clinical psychologist and serves as the Director of Ambulatory Mental Health & Addiction Care for Sutter Health. An expert in developing, implementing, and running large-scale mental healthcare projects, she is passionate about identifying needs within communities, creating innovative services, such as digital mental health programs and applications, and executing solutions with an entrepreneurial approach.

She has extensive experience managing integrated mental healthcare and community-directed programs, in both the outpatient and clinical settings, as well as community outreach and preventative services. Prior to her current role, Dr. Nguyen served as Director of Behavioral Health for Palo Alto Medical Foundation. She completed a research fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine and a leadership fellowship at California Health Care Foundation. She also previously served as Director of Behavioral Health for a federally qualified health center and held clinical and research positions with the Palo Alto Veteran Administration.

She was recognized as a Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2018 and was featured in Hewlett Packard’s Straight Talk for Real Life, inaugural podcast episode: Angst, A Closer Look at Anxiety.