Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Richard A. Bermudes, MD, is a distinguished psychiatrist and entrepreneur with a focus on interventional psychiatry. He is the founder and president of Empathy MindCare, a healthcare organization that integrates rapid-acting treatments like Deep TMS and Ketamine with evidence-based psychotherapies to address mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. Additionally, he founded Empathy Minded, an education technology platform dedicated to advancing mental health care through education, community, and support.
Dr. Bermudes is also the founder of Mindful Health Solutions, where he served as Chief Medical Officer and board member from 2007 to 2023. During his tenure, he expanded the organization from a single clinic to over 22 locations across multiple states and grew the provider network to over 100 clinicians. He launched specialty services, developed Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs, and implemented advanced training symposiums in TMS, establishing Mindful Health Solutions as a leader in interventional psychiatry.
He continues to influence the field through his roles as Chief Medical Officer at First Tracks Health and co-founder of Talk Doc, a telepsychiatry platform providing care to underserved populations.
Dr. Bermudes earned his MD from the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, and completed his postdoctoral training in Family Medicine/Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He is board-certified in Psychiatry and Neurology and is a founding board member and former president of the Clinical TMS Society.
