Arpan Waghray, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Dr.  Arpan Waghray is a geriatric psychiatrist who serves as the CEO of Providence’s Well Being Trust, a national foundation dedicated to advancing the mental, social, and spiritual health for all. Created in 2016 with a $100 million dollar endowment from Providence St. Joseph Health, Providence’s Well Being Trust is investing in approaches that are modeling the way forward and advancing clinical, community and cultural change to transform the health of the nation and improve well-being for everyone. 

Dr. Waghray has served on the Providence’s Well Being Trust team since its inception in 2016. He oversees the foundation’s strategy to drive measurable improvement in the mental health and well-being of communities within the Providence footprint of Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. 

He also serves as chief medical officer of Behavioral Medicine at Providence, one of the largest non-profit health systems in the United States with 122,000 employees, 51 hospitals, 1,000 clinics, and a comprehensive range of health and social services across its footprint. In this role, he facilitates clinical collaboration across the organization to design, develop, and deploy solutions that reduce variation and spread innovation in behavioral medicine.  

He launched Providence’s Tele-Behavioral Health Network that brings access to essential mental health services across 41 hospitals, including many rural and critical access hospitals. In partnership with key stakeholders from human resources, population health, Mission and digital innovation, he is leading efforts to improve the mental health and well-being of Providence’s 122,000 caregivers. These efforts have been very impactful and gained national recognition from the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Additionally, Providence’s No One Cares Alone employee well-being program was featured in Harvard Business Review and the program earned Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Award. 

Dr. Waghray co-chairs the Providence Behavioral Health Leadership Council, which aligns system-wide mental health efforts by bringing together teams from the clinical services division, population health, community partnerships, government affairs, human resources, digital innovation, Mission integration, and social engagement.  

A nationally recognized mental health leader, Dr. Waghray serves on the board of directors for the Coalition for Physician Well-Being, starting his term in January 2025. He also served as the 2022 Chair of the American Hospital Association’s Behavioral Health Services Council, which helps shape the AHA’s behavioral health advocacy, policy, and resource development. Additionally, he serves on the Catholic Health Association’s Well-Being Taskforce and the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Healthcare systems and Financing.  

He has served as a faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and he edited a special issue of Elsevier’s Psychiatric Clinics of North America which focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic changed psychiatry. 

Dr. Waghray completed his medical school training in India, psychiatry residency at Brookdale University Medical Center in New York, and a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at the University of Washington. He later completed an executive development program at the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business.  

He has been featured in Seattle Magazine and Seattle Met as one of the area’s top doctors, and he has been featured in numerous local and national media outlets providing expert commentary on topics related to mental health and well-being. 

He is actively involved in community activities and serves on the Greater Seattle YMCA board. Dr. Waghray enjoys spending time in the outdoors of the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two daughters.