Esther Gabrielle Rosengarten

PMHNP-BC, MSN, BSN, BA

Academic Training:

Ms. Rosengarten is a Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who completed a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 from McMaster University after specializing in Medical Anthropology and becoming captain of Oxford University’s Wadham college’s competitive rowing team. She then obtained a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Montreal, and a Masters in Advanced Practice Adult Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she served as graduate class representative. Ms. Rosengarten also holds two United Nations Executive Leadership Program certificates for the Designing and Implementation of Systemic Peace building, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Recovery and Reconciliation Programs.

Academic Professional Experience:

Designated the class representative of the Advanced Practice Nursing Graduate Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 2009-2011, Ms. Rosengarten assisted with teaching and grading Baccalaureate level and RN to BSN nursing students and taught a nursing fundamentals practicum. She guest lectured at the University of Montreal School of Social Work in Canada and at the Hargeisa School of Medicine in Somaliland and also took the initiative to offer free psychopharmacology lectures to Primary Care Providers [PCPs] at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates- an affiliate of Atrius Health- in Somerville, Massachusetts, to help increase population access to mental health services by improving the ability of PCPs to safely and confidently provide care for non-complex, stable patients taking psychiatric medications.

Clinical Experience:

Ms. Rosengarten has effectively spearheaded agency-wide initiatives to improve the quality of care offered by governmental and non-governmental organizations that she has worked for and with both here and abroad; these include monitoring tools to facilitate the early detection of metabolic syndrome, internet technology measures to increase efficiency of care and provider education and collaboration, and the creation of culturally and linguistically adapted medical evaluation and translation tools distributed to the emergency and psychiatric departments of the hospitals of the University of Montreal Health Center in Canada to efficiently improve communication as well as healthcare interventions and outcomes.

In the last many years, Ms. Rosengarten has occupied a multitude of managerial, supervisory, educational, psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological nursing positions, in both English and French-speaking psychiatric healthcare settings, and worked in several countries including Canada, the U.S.A., Mexico and the Republic of Somaliland. Early on in her career, Ms. Rosengarten became the lead R.N. for the Inuit Mental Healthcare Program of Notre-Dame Hospital at the University of Montreal Health Center, where she also came to manage the operations and clinical care provided by the hospital’s Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Facility to resource poor, treatment resistant patients experiencing chronic and severe mental illness. In the USA, she worked as a nursing supervisor at the Lemuel Shattock hospital for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, an Ethnopsychiatry and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner for North Suffolk Mental Health Association’s Southeast Asian Service Division’s Cambodian Refugee Mental Healthcare Program, a Director of Clinical Operations at the Center of Excellence in Co-Occurring Medicine in Oregon, and Chief of Behavioral Health for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Somerville, Massachusetts. Ms. Rosengarten also has a long-standing history of volunteering in Behavioral Health Education and Clinical Practice leadership roles, which further reflects her deep commitment to helping others; For instance, she volunteered to work from 2012-2015 as Director of Psychiatric and Mental Healthcare Advanced Practice and Education on a project spearheaded by the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chester M. Pierce M.D. Division of Global Psychiatry Department - in collaboration with Harvard University, Architects without Borders, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Architectural Graduate Class of 2015- that aimed to improve Psychiatric and Mental Healthcare in the Republic of Somaliland by conducting on-site assessments of available care, developing building plans for an off the grid Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, and offering relevant Behavioral Healthcare education to local healthcare workers and medical students. In 2013, Ms. Rosengarten’s was awarded the Community Scholars Program Scholarship by the Boston University School of Public Health in recognition of her notable public health contributions in preceding years.

Honorary Memberships:

Golden Key International Honors Society: Honorary Membership awarded in 06/1999

Sigma Theta Tau International Honors Society of Nursing: Honorary Membership awarded in 10/2010

LICENSURE

MASSACHUSETTS

NEW HAMPSHIRE

OREGON

VERMONT

WASHINGTON

PLEASE NOTE:
Ms. Rosengarten’s DEA license is limited to Oregon; controlled substances such as ADHD psychostimulants and benzodiazepines cannot be prescribed outside of Oregon.