Tom lnsel, MD, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, has been a national leader in mental-health research, policy, and technology. From 2002 to 2015, he served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). More recently, he led the Mental Health team at Verily (2015–17); co-founded Mindstrong Health (2017–19), a startup building tools for people with serious mental illness; and served as a special advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom (2019), helping on behavioral health issues.

In 2020, Tom co-founded Humanest Care, a therapeutic online community for recovery. In 2022, he joined Vanna Health as a co-founder and executive chair. Vanna Health is a startup helping people with serious mental illness engage in psychosocial supportive care.

Tom currently serves on the boards of Fountain House and the Steinberg Institute (chair, 2019–2022), as well as being an advisor to several mental-health startups, including Alto Neuroscience, Cerebral, Compass Pathways, Owl Insights, Koa Health, Valera Health, and Ellipsis Health. He is the author of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (Penguin Random House, 2022). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous national and international awards, including honorary degrees in the US and Europe.