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Samantha Vivian Munn Boardman is an American clinical instructor in public health and psychiatry, philanthropist, and founder of the health and wellness website PositivePrescription.com. She lives and works in New York City and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal.

Early life and family
Boardman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the daughter of Pauline Baker Boardman Pitt and Dixon Boardman. She has a sister, Serena Boardman, a senior global real estate advisor and broker for Sotheby’s International Realty. She and her sister were raised in New York City and Palm Beach. They both attended Chapin School and later, Brooks School.

Her father is the general managing partner of the hedge fund firm which he founded in New York in 1988, Optima Fund Management. Her mother is an interior decorator and the great-granddaughter of George F. Baker, a founder of the bank which later became Citibank and of the [[Harvard Business School].

Education and awards
Boardman graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1994 with a B.A. in history. There she was both a John Harvard Scholar and a Harvard Scholar. In May of 2000, she received her M.D. from Cornell University Medical College where she was awarded the Oskar Diethelm Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry. In 2013, she received an M.A. in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2015.

Career
Boardman completed her residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in the Payne Whitney Department of Psychiatry in 2004. There she had in-patient and out-patient experience in geriatric, substance abuse, neurological, psychotic and mood disorders. Since then, she has worked at the Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital as a clinical instructor in public health and psychiatry. Boardman has published papers in several journals including Translational Neuroscience, The American Journal of Psychiatry and The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Boardman currently focuses on her blog, PositivePrescription.com, and the accompanying weekly newsletter, The Weekly Dose. It is a website that combines her expertise in psychiatry with her training in the field of positive psychology to promote well-being and provide tips for a healthier lifestyle.

She regularly contributes to Psychology Today, Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal as an entrepreneur in residence on health and psychology for women. She has appeared on the Today Show, Happiness Radio with Lisa Cypers Kamen, and SiriusXMStars with Perri Peltz.

Philanthropy
Boardman serves on the board of Citymeals-on-Wheels and the Metropolitan Museum. She is a committee member of New York Presbyterian Lying-in Hospital, New York Weill Cornell Hospital, Women and Science, and Rockefeller University.

Personal Life
In 2005, Boardman married the German-born real estate tycoon Aby J. Rosen. They have two children: Alexander (born 2006) and Vivian (born 2008).

Rosen is the co-founder of RFR Holding, which owns a portfolio of 71 properties in cities including New York, Miami, Las Vegas and Tel Aviv. Rosen is also a member of, a founding investor in, and the landlord to the highly exclusive Core Club in New York.

The family resides in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and they summer in Southampton, New York where they have a $21.5 million home.