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Siu Ping Chin Feman, MD, DLFAPA Dr. Siu Ping Chin Feman graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 2010. She then completed the Harvard Longwood Residency Program in Psychiatry in 2014 and subsequently the Partners Healthcare Addiction Fellowship in 2015. She currently is Voluntary Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Her career has focused on the severely mentally ill with emphasis on addiction and homelessness. Since 2021, she has served as Medical Director of Homeless Services at Eliot Community Health Center, a human services agency that provides comprehensive mental health, addictions, and case management services to unhoused individuals across the state. Utilizing psychopharmacology, harm reduction, and public health approaches, Dr. Chin Feman has offered street outreach, telehealth services, home visits, and respite care to individuals at various stages of their housing journeys. She has offered care to some of the most marginalized people in our society, including those living at Boston’s Mass & Cass and in the now-shuttered residential harm reduction program at the Shattuck Cottages. Prior to her work with Eliot, she provided psychiatric and addiction services at Community Healthlink and UMass’ Homeless Outreach and Advocacy Program (HOAP). She also previously served as Medical Director at the Bedford VA Substance Use Disorder Service and as Medical Director at the Gavin Foundation. In her clinical and leadership roles, she is known to be compassionate, person-centered, and fiercely devoted to supporting the wellbeing of her patients. Dr. Chin Feman has been an educator and mentor in community psychiatry, hosting trainees from UMass Chan Medical School, providing lectures to residents, and giving grand rounds at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, entitled “From Street to Home: Homeless Outreach and Psychiatry in Boston.” She is Course Director of the Addiction and Psychiatry Module of the Addiction Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr Chin Feman has also been a coinvestigator on SAMHSA grants focused on maintaining individual independence and sobriety through systems integrating, outreach and Networking. Her research informs and guides her clinical work. Dr Chin Feman is a distinguished Fellow of the APA and was awarded a Travel Fellowship by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. She has served the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society in several capacities, most notably as the chair of the Public Sector Committee from 2015-2020, advocating for improved policies and practices. She has served as both Secretary (2015-2020) and Councilor (2022-present) of the MPS Council. She has testified before the state legislature on MPS legislative initiatives. Nationally, she has been an active participant in the Judges and Psychiatrists Leadership initiative, an effort to improve outcomes for those with mental illness and/or addictions and justice involvement. She has engaged extensively in educating her fellow physicians, her patients, our legislators, and the public about how to treat and care for some of our most challenged and challenging patients. Her approach is a remarkable blend of practical compassionate care with careful academic rigor. The Massachusetts Psychiatric Association is pleased to recognize her excellent contributions to our field with the 2025 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Public Sector. Public Sector Award - Previous Awardees:
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