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Scott L. Zeller, M.D.
University of California, Riverside School of Medicine
Biography
Scott Zeller, M.D., is Vice President for Acute Psychiatry at the multispecialty 5,000-physician group partnership Vituity; assistant professor at the University of California; Past President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry; Past Chair of the Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies; and former Chief of Psychiatric Emergency Services for the Alameda Health System in Oakland, California, where he developed the “Alameda Model”.
He has authored multiple textbooks, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles, has lectured on every continent on Earth except Antarctica, and is known as the co-inventor of On-Demand Emergency Telepsychiatry and the creator of the EmPATH Unit (Emergency Psychiatry Assessment, Treatment, and Healing Unit) model for behavioral health emergency care. He led Project BETA (Best practices in the Evaluation and Treatment of Agitation), which produced guidelines that have revolutionized the care approach to agitated individuals around the world.
Dr. Zeller was awarded USA Doctor of the Year in 2015 by the National Council for Behavioral Health. He won the 2019 California Hospital Association Heerman Award for his landmark contribution to improving California healthcare. In 2020 he was named as one of the “ten most influential people in healthcare design” by Healthcare Design Magazine.