Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
JEREMY ALDWORTH (Speaker) is senior research statistician at RTI International where he works on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He previously worked at Biogen Idec, Eli Lilly and Company, and the Institute for Commercial Forestry Research. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University.
GLORISA CANINO (Member, Steering Committee) is director of the Behavioral Sciences Research Institute at the School of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico. Her research is focused on cross-cultural child and adult psychiatric epidemiology; service utilization patterns and barriers to care faced by Latino children and adults; and instrument psychometrics, particularly as they relate to the adaptation and translation of instruments to the Latino culture. She is a recipient of the Rema Lapouse Award of the American Public Health Association, which is given to outstanding scientists in the area of psychiatric epidemiology. She has a Ph.D. in psychology from Temple University.
MICHAEL DAVERN (Member, Steering Committee) is senior vice president and director of the Public Health Research Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was an assistant professor of health policy and management and research director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. His expertise includes survey research, public health data,
linking surveys with administrative data and Census Bureau data, and the use of these data for policy research, simulation, and evaluation. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Notre Dame.
BENJAMIN DRUSS (Speaker) is a professor and Rosalynn Carter chair in mental health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, where he also directs the Center for Behavioral Health Policy Studies. His research focuses on improving physical health and health care among people with serious mental disorders. He has received a number of national awards for his work, including the Health Services Research Senior Scholar Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the Armin Loeb Award from the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. He has an M.P.H. from Yale University and an M.D. from New York University.
ROBERT GOODMAN (Speaker) is professor of brain and behavioral medicine in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Academic Group and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King’s College in London. He is the developer of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Development and Well-Being Assessment. His research interests include the psychiatric consequences of chronic neurodevelopmental disorders. He has a Ph.D. degree, is a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
STEVEN HEERINGA (Speaker) is a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center and a senior research scientist at the Survey Research Center, both at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan Program in Survey Methods and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. He has contributed as a consulting statistician to a number of international research programs and ongoing survey data collection projects, including the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers, the Health and Retirement Study, the Monitoring the Future Study, the National Study of American Life, and the South African Stress and Health Study. He has a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan.
IAN HICKIE (Speaker) is a senior principal research fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, a professor of psychiatry at Sydney Medical School, and the executive director of the Brain & Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney. He was one of Australia’s first national mental health commissioners. He is particularly interested in youth mental health and the prevention of and early inter-
vention in emerging mood disorders, including optimizing treatments for young people with emerging mood disorders. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and a member of the Order of Australia. He has a doctorate of medicine from the University of New South Wales.
GRAHAM KALTON (Member, Steering Committee) is chair of the board and senior vice president of Westat. Previously, he held positions at the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton, and the London School of Economics. His research interests are in survey sampling and general survey methodology. He was a cofounder of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He is a past president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians, past chair of the American Statistical Association’s section on survey research methods and the Royal Statistical Society’s social statistics section, and a member of the Council of the Royal Statistical Society. He is also a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a national associate of the National Academies. He has a Ph.D. in survey statistics from the University of Southampton.
MICHAEL KOGAN (Speaker) is director of the Office of Epidemiology, Policy and Evaluation for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau at the Health Resources and Services Administration and project director of the National Survey of Children’s Health and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. Previously, he was a senior epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics. He has also held adjunct academic appointments at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Harvard University and is a regular lecturer at Georgetown University. His research focuses on pediatric and perinatal epidemiology, over-the-counter medication use among children; racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes; the consequences of underinsurance; and both the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the health care experiences of families with ASD children. He is a recipient of the Advancing Knowledge Award from the Coalition for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology and of the Administrator’s Award for Excellence from the Health Resources and Services Administration. He has a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Yale University.
KATHLEEN RIES MERIKANGAS (Chair, Steering Committee) is senior investigator and chief of the Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. Previously, she was a professor of epidemiology and public health, psy-
chiatry, and psychology and director of the genetic epidemiology research unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. Her research focuses on studies of the patterns and components of familial aggregation of mental disorders and familial mechanisms for comorbidity of mental and medical disorders; identification of early signs and risk factors for psychiatric disorders among high- and low-risk youth using prospective longitudinal high-risk studies; and large-scale population-based studies of mental disorders, including high-risk designs and prospective longitudinal research. She has a Ph.D. in chronic disease epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
HEATHER RINGEISEN (Speaker) is director of the Children and Families Research Program at RTI International. She serves as a co-investigator on the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II and as the project director of a calibration study to determine an estimate of childhood serious emotional disturbance within the National Health Interview Survey. Her research focuses on children’s mental health services research, with an interest in the nonspecialty mental health service systems. Previously, she served as chief of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she directed a research program that examined the quality, organization, and financing of services for children with mental disorders. She is a recipient of the policy fellowship from the Society for Research in Child Development. She has a Ph.D. in clinical child psychology from Auburn University and is a licensed clinical child psychologist.
NEIL RUSSELL (Speaker) is director of the Division of Surveillance and Data Collection in the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. His areas of expertise include behavioral health statistics and epidemiology; basic and applied research in behavioral health data systems and statistical methodology; as well as surveillance and data collection. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Arizona State University with a focus in survey research.
PETER SZATMARI (Speaker) is chief of the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, as well as director of the Division of Child and Youth Mental Health at the University of Toronto. His work has been in the field of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including studying the longitudinal course of this disorder and its genetic causes. He is the founding director of the Canadian Autism Intervention Research Network, a patient-oriented research network in early intervention in
ASD. He has also consulted with government agencies in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He has an M.D. and an M.S. degree from McMaster University.
SUSANNA VISSER (Speaker) is the acting associate director of science for the Division of Human Development and Disability of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work focuses on the epidemiologic study of neurobehavioral and mental health conditions of children, including ADHD, Tourette syndrome, and autism. Her expertise includes the analysis of longitudinal survey data covering developmental trends across the life span and population-based survey data. She currently serves as the committee epidemiologist for the American Academy of Pediatrics ADHD diagnostic and treatment guidelines committee and participates in technical expert panels for two national surveys sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. She has a Ph.D. from the School of Public Health of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
ALAN ZASLAVSKY (Speaker) is professor of health care policy (statistics) in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His methodological research interests include surveys, census methodology, microsimulation models, missing data, hierarchical modeling, small-area estimation, and applied Bayesian methodology. His health services research focuses primarily on developing methodology for quality measurement of health plans and providers and understanding the implications of these quality measurements. He also works on analyses for the World Mental Health Surveys and for the Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers of the U.S. Army. His interests include methodology for measuring racial and ethnic disparities in care and determining their causes, quality measurement for pediatric hospital care, and national opinion research on health policy issues. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a national associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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