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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 91-98
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Her research interests include alcohol and drug use and addiction among adolescents and adults, substance abuse and mental health treatment for Latinos and African Americans, and alcohol and drug use among college populations. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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He was a member of the executive leadership team at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for 6 years prior to joining SAMHSA where he oversaw education and training, consumer rights and grievances, peer services and policies contributing to a recovery oriented service system. He has experience in behavioral health spanning inpatient, outpatient, community support and advocacy work since 1989.
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Her research focuses on the intersection of multiple service delivery systems, including substance abuse treatment, mental health, child welfare, health services, HIV services, and criminal justice, focusing on the relationship of service delivery to treatment outcomes in these topic areas. She is currently a principal investigator on several studies, including a long-term follow-up study of gender differences among opiate users; the evaluation of a "trauma-informed" treatment program for women in prison; a study of the relationship between drug treatment and child welfare outcomes; and evaluations of several enhanced treatment interventions for various groups, including adolescents, homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders, and pregnant and parenting women.
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For his work in the multinational humanitarian effort to rebuild the psychiatric care system of Iraq and in the national redesign of the VA health system's mental health services for Iraq war veterans, he won the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Public Interest. He has served as a member of the White House Commission on Drug Free Communities, the VA National Mental Health Task Force, and the National Advisory Council of SAMHSA.
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The goal of his work is to better understand resilience, prevention of mental illness, and the health care approach called "predictive health," to maintain health and limit disease and illness. He has worked on health care transformation and public mental health with government agencies in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, and, in the United States, with the U.S.
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He has been the principal or coprincipal investigator on numerous grants on the delivery of effective community mental health and rehabilitation services to individuals with psychiatric disabilities. He has given more than 200 presentations on his work around the world.
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He is the principal investigator of the Center for Research on Quality in Managed Care, a project of the National Institute of Mental Health, RAND, and UCLA, and of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Partnership Initiative. He is also co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation UCLA Clinical Scholars Program and chair of the Community Health Improvement Collaborative.
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