Dr. Matthew Long is a board-certified psychiatrist with experience providing comprehensive mental health care to active-duty service members, veterans, and their families. He has worked across military, academic, and community psychiatry settings and is recognized for clinical reliability and for teaching and mentoring medical students and junior residents. Dr. Long is dedicated to advancing mental health resilience and evidence-based psychiatric care in operational and clinical environments.
Since July 2024, Dr. Long has served as a Psychiatrist with the U.S. Navy in San Diego, California (July 2024–present). He serves as the sole psychiatrist for approximately 6,600 personnel assigned to six amphibious-class ships. As a member of Fleet Surgical Team ONE, he provides behavioral health support to operational Surface Fleet forces and embarked Marine units. His responsibilities include outpatient psychiatric evaluations and treatment for active-duty sailors and Marines, crisis response and intervention, implementation of primary prevention initiatives, and delivery of command briefings and mental health education to leadership and shipboard crews.
Dr. Long completed his Psychiatry Residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) in San Diego, California (July 2020–June 2024). During residency, he provided psychiatric evaluation and treatment for active-duty service members, veterans, and their families across inpatient, outpatient, and consultation-liaison settings. His training included rotations at UC San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthcare System, providing broad clinical exposure. He also took an active role in teaching and mentoring medical students and junior residents.
Before entering residency, Dr. Long earned his Doctor of Medicine from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (July 2016–June 2020). He earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (September 2010–May 2014). Prior to medical school, he worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts (June 2014–June 2016), serving in the Surgical ICU Translational Research (STAR) Center and coordinating an ultrasound-guided central venous catheter placement training program. He previously served as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at Wesleyan University (February 2012–May 2014) and as a Research Intern at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (May 2013–August 2013).
Dr. Long is a Lieutenant Commander (select) in the United States Navy (May 2020–present). He holds medical licenses in California and Virginia, has a DEA license, and is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (September 2024–September 2034).