John W. Newcomer, M.D.

John W. Newcomer, M.D., is President and CEO of Thriving Mind South Florida, a non-profit organization overseeing safety-net mental health and substance-abuse services for Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, with annual funding of more than $110 million from Florida’s Department of Children and Families as well as other federal, state, local, and private sources. Dr. Newcomer is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He previously served as Vice Dean for the medical school and Vice President for Research at Florida Atlantic University, and prior to that was Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. During more than two decades at Washington University, he served in leadership positions related to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded General Clinical Research Center, the Clinical Translational Science Award and the Center for Clinical Studies. Dr. Newcomer has been a Principal Investigator on grants funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for more than years. In the public sector he was Chair of the Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board for the State of Missouri for 13 years. In 2014 he was named to the Thomson Reuters list of “Highly Cited Researchers” in the field of psychiatry.