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Jerry L. Halverson, MD, FACPsych, DFAPA

Chief Medical Officer, Psychiatrist

Jerry L. Halverson, MD, FACPsych, DFAPA, is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with subspecialties in addiction medicine and consult liaison psychiatry who serves as Chief Medical Officer for Rogers Behavioral Health. In this role he is responsible for the quality of the psychiatric care provided and ensuring access to that care throughout the system.

Since he joined Rogers in 2009, Dr. Halverson has held numerous leadership roles. As the medical director of adult services, he established the Focus Depression Recovery adult residential care program in 2014. Dr. Halverson has served as medical director of Rogers’ Oconomowoc campus and served for more than five years as Rogers’ first Chief Medical Officer. His most recent position was as Rogers’ senior physician executive ensuring access to care, supporting strategic planning for future growth, external partnerships and physician recruitment.

A fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) , Dr. Halverson is a strong advocate for the use psychiatric care measurement and standardization to improve patient care. He serves as the delegate of the APA to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates and is the APA/AMA Section Council on Psychiatry chair. He has served on the APA's Council on Health Systems Finance and on the Council on Quality of Psychiatric Care. He was selected as a member of the Measure Development Plan Technical Expert Panel under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) coordinated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and served as the co-chair of the APA/CMS grant on the development of psychiatric measures. Currently, Dr. Halverson is the chair of the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Medical Society and has served as its past president. He remains an active member of the American College of Psychiatrists, the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association, the Wisconsin Hospital Association, the Florida Medical Association, the Dane County and Waukesha County medical societies and is the chair and physician member of the combined City of Madison/Dane County Board of Health.

Dr. Halverson has been honored by his colleagues for clinical and leadership excellence, receiving numerous awards including the Wisconsin Alumni Association "Forward Under 40" award, the Kenneth M. Viste, Jr., MD, Young Physician Leadership Award from the WMS Foundation, an Early Career Leadership Award by the AMA Foundation and the AMA Women's Physician Congress Mentor Award. Dr. Halverson was selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America® list from 2015-2020.

Dr. Halverson received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and completed his post-graduate medical specialty training at the Mayo Clinic and Medical College of Wisconsin. He has lectured internationally on mental health and health policy issues to academic, legislative, professional, and community audiences. In addition, he is a clinical adjunct associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.