Michael Groat, Ph.D.
Advisor
Michael Groat is the president and CEO of Mason-Based Facility of Lindner Center of HOPE. In total, he has a 16-year career in leadership in hospital, residential and outpatient treatment programs.
Before joining, the Center of HOPE, Groat served as CEO of CooperRiis, a 95-bed residential program in Asheville, North Carolina, and was chief clinical officer of Silver Hill Hospital, a 129-bed hospital with seven residential programs, three inpatient units and an outpatient clinic. He also previously served as the director of adult services at the Menninger Clinic, overseeing its professionals and executives’ program, subacute program and outpatient clinic.
Groat completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in the treatment of treatment-refractory personality disorders and other mental disorders at the Austen Riggs Center. He is associate clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He was previously the CCO and director of psychology and assessment at the Silver Hill Hospital, where he was also associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.
