Dr. Michele Reid is the Vice President & Chief Operating Officer for CNS Healthcare, an outpatient mental health provider with a $24 plus million budget and serving over 7,500 children, adolescents, adults and seniors with mental disorders including substance use disorders within the tri-county metropolitan Detroit area. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor, Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences.
She is the Chairperson of the American College of Psychiatrists, Dean Award Committee and the Area IV Representative to the American Psychiatric Association Assembly for the Michigan Psychiatric Association.
Previously, she has served in various leadership roles in professional organizations including the American College of Psychiatrists, American Psychiatric Association, Michigan Psychiatric Society, Detroit Medical Society, Wayne County Medical Society, Oakland County Medical Society and Michigan State Medical Society. Currently, she is the Chairperson of the American College of Psychiatrists, Dean Award Committee and the Area IV Representative to the American Psychiatric Association Assembly for the Michigan Psychiatric Association. Dr. Reid has also served as the Chair of the Committee of Black Psychiatrists, a member of the Council on Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities and as a representative of the Board of Trustees at the American Psychiatric Association. Additionally, she has served as the President of the Michigan Psychiatric Society, a District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association.
A native Detroiter, Dr. Reid attended Detroit Public Schools (DPS) and received her BA from Fisk University and MD from Meharry Medical College, both Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Nashville, Tennessee. She completed her internship and psychiatric residency at Wayne State University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the Detroit Psychiatric Institute and the Detroit Medical Center. She is Board certified in psychiatry and neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Reid has been a member of the Great Lakes Chapter of the Links, Inc since 1983 and served as the Vice President, Parliamentarian, Co-Chair of the Fundraising Event, and a member of the HHS, Evaluation and Membership Committees. She has also been a presenter at the Central Area Conference on Mental Health in Cincinnati, OH.
Her spare time is spent volunteering at her former high school (Cass Tech) presenting on mental health and healthcare issues, serving on the board of directors of a local community health center and consulting for a local cancer support group.
She and her husband, Eddie Lamar Harris reside in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
“I didn’t choose the field of psychiatry, it chose me.”
Michele Reid, MD
Both of Dr. Reid’s parents (pictured) were masters prepared psychiatric social workers who were on the boards of community mental health centers in Detroit, Michigan. When she was growing up, her father was a professor in the graduate school of social work at Wayne State University and had a private practice in their home for marriage and family counseling. Her mother was a school social worker and later went into administration overseeing employee health for the Detroit Board of Education. Dr. Reid learned about helping people with mental disorders, both clinically and administratively, and the difference this help made in their lives. Her lifelong passion has been addressing the needs of the most vulnerable, underserved populations and helping those whose needs are the greatest.