Credentials and Care Philosophy
Eric Alcera, MD, is Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Carrier Clinic and Behavioral Health Chair of Hackensack Meridian Health’s Central Region. He also serves as Academic Chair of Psychiatry at John F. Kennedy Medical Center and Section Chief of Psychiatry at Bayshore Medical Center.
Dr. Alcera is double board-certified in general psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent psychiatry. He earned his medical degree from Saint Louis University College of Medicine in the Philippines, and completed his residency at Cooper University Hospital, and completed fellowships in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital and in health care executive leadership at the School of Allied Health, Seton Hall University.
Dr. Alcera led and modernized telepsychiatry ambulatory services for the central and southern regions of HMH; directed and scaled the universal Network Suicide Screening process and implemented in all emergency rooms within HMH; helped develop psychiatry residency programs and fellowship programs in Child and Adolescent, Geriatric, Addiction Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry; and optimized and transformed the first Urgent Care with a Behavioral Health workflow model and telebehavioral health services.
Prior to joining Hackensack Meridian Health, Dr. Alcera served as the Deputy Director of the Child and Adolescent Department at Bellevue Hospital-NYU, where he helped establish the first child partial hospital program in New York City. He has also held faculty appointments at both New York University, Robert Langone School of Medicine and Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Alcera says: "My philosophy of care is rooted in treating every patient as if they were a member of my own family, offering the same compassion, attention, and dedication that I would extend to those closest to me. I am deeply committed to early intervention, as I cannot accept the preventable progression of childhood psychopathology into lifelong adult psychiatric illnesses; my goal is to guide each individual toward a healthier future."
