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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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Appendix C

Biographies of Workshop Speakers

Eric J. Bruns, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. Dr. Bruns’s research and other professional activities focus on public child-serving systems and how to maximize their positive effects on youth with behavioral health needs and their families. He is nationally known for his research and development work on integrated care coordination for youth with complex mental health needs via the wraparound process and school mental health services. With Eric Trupin, Ph.D., he codirects the Washington State Children’s Evidence-based Practices Institute (www.uwhelpingfamilies.org) and also serves as Associate Director of the UW School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center. He has served as principal investigator for more than 10 federally funded studies of community and school mental health services and authored more than 70 refereed journal articles and book chapters.

David Chambers, D.Phil., is currently the Branch Chief of the Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology Branch (SRCEB) of the Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Since 2001, Dr. Chambers has led the Dissemination and Implementation Research Program within SRCEB, where he continues to manage a portfolio of grants that study the integration of scientific findings and effective clinical practices in mental health within real-world service settings. Since 2006, he has also served as Associate Director for Dissemination and Implementation Research, leading National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiatives around the coordination of dissemination and

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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implementation research in health, including a series of annual conferences, training programs, and a set of research funding opportunities. His work has focused on how change occurs in clinical practice, how new practices are introduced into real-world clinical settings, and how health information is disseminated to multiple audiences. Prior to his arrival at NIMH, he worked as a member of a research team at Oxford University, where he studied national efforts to implement evidence-based practice within health care systems.

Bruce Chorpita, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and President of PracticeWise, LLC. His work is aimed at improving the effectiveness of mental health service systems for children through innovation in treatment design, clinical decision-making and information-delivery models, and system architecture. Recent work has focused on designing treatments that can adapt in real time to local contexts and to emergent youth and family needs while staying grounded in scientifically tested procedures. Other recent work has focused on how service systems can more easily and efficiently prepare a service array to address the needs of the community and how to sustain effective practice through professional development activities, innovative supervision models, and performance feedback systems. Over the past 10 years, he has led multiple large-scale reform initiatives in public mental health systems throughout the country, increasing both the efficiency and effectiveness of those systems.

Charles B. Collins, Jr., Ph.D., is the Team Leader for the Science Application Team in the Capacity Building Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. His team of scientists is responsible for the dissemination of evidence-based behavioral interventions into HIV prevention practice. His team has disseminated 31 evidence-based interventions designated as having the highest evidence of efficacy for HIV prevention. Over the past 12 years, these interventions have been disseminated to more than 3,900 community-based prevention agencies; to more than 900 city, county, and state health departments; and to more than 1,100 medical clinics. He has designed, implemented, and evaluated an HIV intervention for African American drug users and a multisite community-level intervention for young men who have sex with men of color. He has also conducted evaluability assessments and evaluations in community-based organizations. Dr. Collins has published in AIDS Education and Prevention, AIDS Care, The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, The Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning, The Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, Public Health Reports, The Southern Medical Journal, American Journal of Community Psychology, Evaluation, and Psychological Reports.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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Naihua Duan, Ph.D., is an accomplished practicing biostatistician with research interests in implementation research, quality improvement investigations, health services research, prevention research, sample design and experimental design, model robustness, transformation models, multilevel modeling, nonparametric and semi-parametric regression methods, and environmental exposure assessment. He has published more than 190 papers in leading journals in statistics, psychiatry, public health, and epidemiology. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a former associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He received the Long-Term Excellence Award in 2013 from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Duan received a B.S. in mathematics from National Taiwan University, an M.A. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. He retired in 2012 from Columbia University (CU) and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), where he served as Professor of Biostatistics (in Psychiatry), with tenure, in the Departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics (CU) and Director of the Division of Biostatistics (NYSPI). Prior to his tenure at CU/NYSPI, he served as Professor in Residence at UCLA and led the Methods Core in the Center of Community Health, the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services, and the Health Services Research Center.

Richard G. Frank, Ph.D., is the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Previously he was the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. From 2009 to 2011 he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at HHS, directing the office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy. His research is focused on the economics of mental health and substance abuse care, long-term-care financing policy, and disability policy. Dr. Frank is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as an editor for the Journal of Health Economics. He was awarded the Georgescu-Roegen prize from the Southern Economic Association, the Carl A. Taube Award from the American Public Health Association, and the Emily Mumford Medal from Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry. In 2011, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Mental Health Association of Maryland. Dr. Frank received the John Eisenberg Mentorship Award from National Research Service Awards. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1997. He is coauthor with Sherry Glied of the book Better But Not Well (Johns Hopkins Press, 2008).

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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Frances M. Harding serves as Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts in the field of alcohol and drug policy. CSAP provides national leadership in the federal effort to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and drug problems. As part of an Executive Leadership Exchange in SAMHSA, Director Harding served as Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) from July 2010 to January 2011. CMHS leads federal efforts to treat mental illnesses by promoting mental health and by preventing the development or worsening of mental illness when possible. Director Harding serves as the lead for SAMHSA’s Strategic Initiative on Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness, which creates communities where individuals, families, schools, faith-based organizations, and workplaces take action to promote emotional health and reduce the likelihood of mental illness, substance abuse, including tobacco, and suicide. Prior to federal service, Director Harding served as Associate Commissioner of the Division of Prevention and Recovery at the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, where she was responsible for the development of policy and guidelines for alcohol and drug abuse and gambling prevention, treatment, and recovery programming.

Sheppard G. Kellam, M.D., is a public health psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. He played a major role in establishing concepts and methods for prevention science and contributed to knowledge about early risk factors and their malleability. In partnership with the Baltimore City Public Schools System, he led three generations of large-scale epidemiologically based randomized field trials supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), testing universal preventive interventions in first- and second-grade classrooms directed at early antecedents of long-term problem outcomes. Dr. Kellam worked extensively on early population-based universal intervention studies in Woodlawn, an African American community on the South Side of Chicago, mapping the variation in developmental paths leading to health or disorders in defined populations. From 1982 to 1993, he was Chair of the Department of Mental Hygiene (now the Department of Mental Health) in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was the Founding Director of the NIMH Hopkins Prevention Research Center. Dr. Kellam later moved to the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where his mission was to develop a new Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research in Schools (Ed/Prev). He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and was President of the Society for Prevention Research from 1998 to 2001. In

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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1996, he was awarded the Rema Lapouse Award for lifetime contributions to public health and prevention science by the Mental Health, Epidemiology, and Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association. The World Federation for Mental Health presented Dr. Kellam with the Distinguished Public Mental Health Award in 1999, and in 2004 he was elected a fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Award of the Society for Prevention Research and the NIDA Director’s Special Appreciation Award for contributions to prevention science.

Kelly Kelleher, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health in the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health at The Ohio State University, Vice President of Community Health and Services Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Center Director in the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He is a pediatrician and health services researcher focused on improving and measuring the quality of pediatric care for high-risk children affected by social determinants of health, violence, neglect, alcohol, drug use, or mental disorders. He has been continuously funded by NIH since shortly after completing his training in 1990 and is now the principal investigator on projects from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid/Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation. He is involved in strategy development for the Nationwide Children’s Healthy Neighborhood, Healthy Family zone.

Alex R. Kemper, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., is Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University. Dr. Kemper is a health services researcher who focuses on issues related to the delivery of preventive services. He is a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and serves as the Chair of the Evidence Review Workgroup of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Discretionary Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. In addition to these activities, Dr. Kemper serves as deputy editor for Pediatrics. He completed his pediatric residency training at Duke University and then fellowship training at the University of North Carolina. In 2000, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan. During the next 6 years, Dr. Kemper developed an active research program evaluating lead poisoning prevention strategies, screening for vision and hearing impairment, and the detection of genetic conditions in early childhood. In 2006, he returned to Duke University.

David C. Mohr, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Departments of Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Social Sciences and is the Director of Northwestern

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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University’s Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs; http://www.cbits.northwestern.edu). Dr. Mohr has long been interested in telemental health, having conducted seminal research on the use of telephone-administered psychotherapy. In recent years, his work has been at the intersection of behavioral science, technology, and clinical intervention research, where he is developing, optimizing, and evaluating interventions that harness Web-based and wireless technologies to promote health and mental health. He has overseen the creation of an extensible, modular infrastructure, called “Purple,” that now supports development of Web-based and mobile intervention tools. Purple now supports more than 50 funded projects around the United States and in developing countries. His current research includes the following projects: (1) the development of a context-sensing mobile application that harnesses in-dwelling phone sensor data (global positioning system, Bluetooth, accelerometry, etc.) to identify specific geographic, activity, social, and emotional patient states that can be incorporated into mobile interventions for depression; (2) the integration of Web-based intervention and peer-networking tools that use principles of online collaborative learning and supportive accountability to enhance learning and adherence; and (3) the integration of intervention technologies into mental health and primary care settings to improve the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of care. Dr. Mohr is also interested in developing new methodologies for the evaluation of psychological and behavioral interventions that address the unique needs and rapidly changing technological environment of behavioral intervention technologies.

Lawrence Palinkas, Ph.D., is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and Director of the Behavioral Health Research Cluster at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Social Work. He also holds secondary appointments as Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Preventive Medicine at USC and as Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. A medical anthropologist, his primary areas of expertise lie within preventive medicine, cross-cultural medicine, and health services research. Dr. Palinkas is particularly interested in behavioral health, global behavioral health and health disparities, implementation science, community-based participatory research, and the sociocultural and environmental determinants of health and health-related behavior with a focus on disease prevention and health promotion. His research has included studies of psychosocial adaptation to extreme environments and man-made disasters; mental health needs of older adults; cultural explanatory models of mental illness and service utilization; HIV and substance abuse prevention in Mexico; evaluation of academic-community research practice partnerships; and the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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practices for delivery of mental health services to children, adolescents, and underserved populations. This work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NIH, the MacArthur Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation. Dr. Palinkas’s current research encompasses mental health services, immigrant health, and global health. He also provides expertise to students and colleagues in the use of qualitative and mixed research methods. He is the author of more than 300 publications. Dr. Palinkas has served on numerous National Academies’ committees, including the Committee to Review the Federal Response to the Health Effects Associated with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill; Committee on NASA’s Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap; U.S. National Committee for Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research; Committee on Space Biology and Medicine; Decadal Survey on Physical and Biological Sciences in Space; and Committee on Ethics Principles and Guidelines for Health Standards for Long Duration and Exploration Spaceflights.

Bryan Samuels, M.A., is the Executive Director of Chapin Hall, one of the nation’s leading research and policy centers focused on improving the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities. Before joining Chapin Hall, Samuels was appointed by President Barack Obama as Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), making him from 2010 to 2013 the highest-ranking federal child welfare policy maker in the country. As ACYF Commissioner, he emphasized the importance of child well-being and the use of data-driven approaches to improve the welfare of vulnerable children and youth. Mr. Samuels has more than 20 years of experience in child welfare, including having served as the Chief of Staff of Chicago Public Schools under Arne Duncan and as Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. He was also a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration from 1997 to 2003. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Jennifer Tyson, M.A., is a Social Science Analyst in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Innovation and Research Division at the Department of Justice. Prior to joining OJJDP, she served as a coordinator for a national training and technical assistance project at American University and as a program coordinator for a community-based crime prevention and public safety effort in the Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Ms. Tyson holds a B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Boston University and an M.A. in child development and urban policy and planning from Tufts University.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Speakers." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2015. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18964.
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Over the past few decades there have been major successes in creating evidence-based interventions to improve the cognitive, affective, and behavioral health of children. Many of these interventions have been put into practice at the local, state, or national level. To reap what has been learned from such implementation, and to explore how new legislation and policies as well as advances in technology and analytical methods can help drive future implementation, the Institute of Medicine-National Research Council Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health held the workshop "Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health" in Washington, DC, on June 16 and 17, 2014.

The workshop featured panel discussions of system-level levers and blockages to the broad implementation of interventions with fidelity, focusing on policy, finance, and method science; the role of scientific norms, implementation strategies, and practices in care quality and outcomes at the national, state, and local levels; and new methodological directions. The workshop also featured keynote presentations on the role of economics and policy in scaling interventions for children's behavioral health, and making better use of evidence to design informed and more efficient children's mental health systems. Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.

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