Speaker's Profile

Mona Potter, MD is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of InStride Health, a specialty pediatric anxiety and OCD treatment program. She also serves as Associate Director of the Division of Professional and Public Education at Mass General Hospital (MGH). Prior to co-founding InStride, Dr. Potter spent nearly two decades in the MGH/McLean/Harvard Medical School system and ultimately served as Medical Director of the McLean Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Services, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and sat on the Executive Committee of the McLean Institute of Technology in Psychiatry. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt University and stayed at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine for her Medical Degree. When she’s not tackling the mental health crisis, she enjoys summiting mountains with her family, coaching her daughter’s soccer team, and playing clarinet and piano.