Primary Job Title Founder, Chief Medical Officer, Chairman of the Board Primary Organization ConnectionsAZ
Location Dallas, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male
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Dr. Chris Carson is the Chairman/ Chief Medical Officer at Connections Health Solutions, LLC. Chris Carson attended University of Arizona - Eller College of Management.
Dr. Carson has developed acute psychiatric services in a variety of settings, beginning in 1993 with his role as medical director of the psychiatric emergency department
at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, where he led the creation of the first crisis unit to serve the needs of the public behavioral health system in Tarrant County. He then went on to develop a crisis center at Green Oaks Hospital in Dallas and served as its medical director until 2005. In 2009 he co-founded Connections Health Solutions (CHS).
In addition, Dr. Carson is a national leader in managed behavioral health systems. In February 2014 he became the National Medical Director for Utilization Management at Beacon Health Options, where he was responsible for the oversight of the medical management of all at-risk accounts nationwide. At Beacon he has had various positions of leadership and is currently the Region 4/5 CMO.
