Dr. Carrington is a strategic public health practitioner, licensed clinical social worker, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in both clinical and administrative leadership. She currently serves as the Chief Clinical Officer and Wellness Clinic Director at the New American Association of Massachusetts. An award-winning researcher and passionate advocate for health equity, Dr. Carrington specializes in innovative, trauma-informed approaches to care delivery for underserved and minoritized communities. Her work bridges public health, clinical social work, and implementation science, with a focus on leveraging technology to improve outcomes and reduce systemic disparities. Dr. Carrington earned her Doctor of Health Science degree with Alpha Eta honors from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where her capstone: “A 21st Century tool adapted for today's workforce: Training behavioral health graduates to improve their job performance through the integration of natural language processing (NLP) in clinical documentation ”won the 2024 Doctor of Health Science Capstone Award. She also holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (BA) and Boston College (MSW), where she was the recipient of Dean’s leadership award and the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award. Her research interests include improvement science, digital inequities, the integration of AI in behavioral health training.
