Mental Health Advocate · Psychiatrist
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist · CEO and Co-Founder, Frontier Psychiatry · Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Arzubi builds mental health care for places the system has left behind. He leads Frontier Psychiatry, bringing telepsychiatry to rural and frontier communities in Montana, Idaho, and Alaska.
Eric Arzubi, MD, has spent his career building mental health care where there was little or none. Based in Billings, Montana, since 2013, he co-founded Frontier Psychiatry in March 2020 to bring timely, evidence-based psychiatric care to rural patients by telehealth.
Before Frontier, he was Chair of Psychiatry at Billings Clinic. There he built Montana's first psychiatry residency program, its first EmPATH emergency psychiatric unit, its first Project ECHO behavioral health hub, and Billings' first school-based health center.
He trained at Yale, earning his MD and completing residency in adult psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.
His path to medicine was not direct. He first worked in finance at Morgan Stanley and as a Latin America correspondent for Bloomberg. That background shapes how he approaches care: as a system to be measured, financed, and fixed.
CEO and Co-Founder
Frontier PsychiatryPhysician-led telepsychiatry for MT, ID, and AK
Assistant Clinical Professor
Yale School of MedicineYale Child Study Center
Board of Directors
Big Sky Care ConnectMontana's health information exchange
Board of Directors
Alaska Safety AllianceStatewide workforce development
38%
In a 2025 study published in JAMA Network Open, Montana Medicaid patients treated by Frontier Psychiatry had a 38% lower rate of psychiatric hospitalization than a matched control group.
Read the studySelected peer-reviewed papers, books, and reports on telepsychiatry outcomes, adolescent depression, integrated care, and school mental health. Full list on Google Scholar.
Havlik JL, Tyrrell B, Polaschek J, Bell N, Arzubi E
medRxiv (preprint). doi:10.1101/2026.06.29.26356785
Havlik JL, Ghomi RH, An N, Budhiraja P, Arzubi E
JAMA Network Open. 2025;8(5):e258558
Perdue M, Ghomi RH, Rees P, Arzubi E
Journal of Addiction Medicine. 2025;19(2):227-229
Book
Edited by Eric R. Arzubi, MD, and Elisa Mambrino, PhD · Springer Publishing Company, 2010 · 480 pages
A practical guide for clinicians, teachers, therapists, and attorneys who read neuropsychological evaluations but do not perform them. It covers testing across the lifespan, from learning disabilities to traumatic brain injury, and how to use results for diagnosis, treatment, and planning.
View on AmazonFeatured in The Me You Can't See, the Apple TV+ series on mental health from Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, which premiered in May 2021.
Billings Gazette · Jun 8, 2025
Billings psychiatrist moves the needle on Montana's mental healthApple TV+ · May 21, 2021
The Me You Can't See — docuseries from Oprah Winfrey and Prince HarryBillings Gazette · Mar 31, 2021
New tele-psychiatry practice brings services to rural MontanaMagic City Magazine · Dec 7, 2016
Dr. Eric Arzubi: At the right place at the right timeBillings Gazette · Nov 13, 2016
Arzubi, Amato receive NAMI Montana Hero AwardMontana Public Radio · Jan 21, 2016
Billings Clinic Launches Statewide Project For Mental HealthSpeaking of Design (HDR) · May 5, 2026
Listen, Mental Health Matters: Dr. Eric Arzubi, Frontier PsychiatryHey Man; It's Ok · Jan 16, 2026
When Anxiety Hits Hard: A Doctor's Journey from Wall Street to Frontier PsychiatryThe Crop Insurance Podcast · Jan 13, 2026
You Don't Have to Wait for a Crisis: Rural Mental Health in AgricultureKeynotes and invited talks on crisis care, telepsychiatry, single session interventions, and AI in behavioral health.
TEDx Talk · Nov 2015
How a Light Box and a Dream Team Changed one Hopeless Teen's Life
TEDxMSUBillings · Billings, MT
Half My Own Team Tried to Stop Me: The Truth About Changing Crisis Care
CrisisCon26 · Atlanta, GA · Keynote
Under the Hood and Over the Horizon: What AI Actually Changes in Behavioral Health
Improving Lives Conference, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority · Anchorage, AK · Keynote
SUD Market Outlook: Payer Strategy, Growth and Innovation
SUD Business Summit, Convene · Chicago, IL · Opening C-suite panel with Dr. Dheeraj Raina, Andy Kelly, and Charika Wilcox-Lee; moderated by Ashleigh Hollowell
Recent keynotes include CrisisCon26 in Atlanta and the Improving Lives Conference in Anchorage.
Dr. Arzubi is available for keynotes, panel discussions, media commentary, and strategic healthcare advisory. For speaking and press requests, email eric@arzubi.com.