Appendix C
Biosketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Marc Atkins is professor of psychiatry and psychology and director of the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He also directs the Dissemination and Implementation Research and Policy Program for UIC’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science. He has been the recipient of several grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and private foundations in the areas of childhood attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and aggression and community mental health services for children and families living in high-poverty urban communities. He is a frequent consultant to the Chicago Public Schools as well as the Illinois Division of Mental Health and the Illinois State Board of Education. He has served on the executive committee of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science of the Association for Psychological Science and is past president of the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of the American Psychological Association.
Gerald J. August is a professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as director of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded Center for Personalized Prevention Research in Children’s Mental Health and codirector of the Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health. He specializes in the areas of development psychopathology and prevention science. He has published numerous papers addressing issues pertaining to ADHD diagnosis and classification, comorbidity, natural history, and treatment. His research interests also include the prevention of childhood conduct problems and associated
health compromising behaviors. He is founder of the Early Risers “Skills for Success” prevention program.
Gary Belkin is the executive deputy commissioner of mental hygiene in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and was most recently the medical director for behavioral health in the Health and Hospitals Corporation of the City of New York, which operates 11 public hospitals in New York City. He has served as chief of psychiatry (interim) at Bellevue Hospital and has led large delivery systems and policy development in urban health settings through advancing innovative approaches to public mental health. He was associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and founding director of the NYU program, which was developed to advance innovative implementation and policy approaches to scale and improve population mental health strategies.
Anthony Biglan is a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute. His research over the past 30 years has helped to identify effective family, school, and community interventions to prevent the most common and costly problems of childhood and adolescence. He is a former president of the Society for Prevention Research. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention. His recent review of preventive interventions concluded that diverse psychological, behavioral, and health problems can be prevented through the promotion of nurturing families, schools, and communities. His (2015) book, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World, describes the progress that behavioral science has made in improving human well-being.
Gilbert Botvin has been on the faculty of Cornell University’s Weill Medical College for more than 32 years, where he currently is professor emeritus of health care policy and research. Previously, he was professor of public health, professor of psychiatry, chief of the Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, and director of Cornell’s Institute for Prevention Research. He has published more than 250 scientific papers and book chapters, is a fellow and past president of the Society for Prevention Research, and is founding editor of its journal, Prevention Science. He has received numerous awards, including a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health for his achievements as an outstanding prevention researcher, and the Society for Prevention Research’s Presidential Award for his lifetime contributions to prevention science. He is the developer of the Life Skills Training drug abuse and violence prevention program. He is also founder and president of National Health Promotion Associates.
C. Hendricks Brown is professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Preventive Medicine, and Medical Social Sciences in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He also holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. He directs the National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and HIV, and a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study to synthesize findings from individual-level data across multiple randomized trials for adolescent depression. He is also the codirector of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Prevention of Youth Violence Center. Since 1985, he has received National Institutes of Health funding to direct the Prevention Science and Methodology Group. He cochairs the National Academy of Medicine Forum on Promoting Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health and serves on numerous federal panels, advisory boards, and editorial boards.
Linda L. Caldwell is distinguished professor of recreation, park, and tourism management and human development and family studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her research primarily focuses on interventions that develop youth competencies, promote healthy lifestyles, and reduce risky behavior in and through leisure. She is the co-developer of two interventions that focus on preventing adolescent risk behavior through positive use of free time: TimeWise: Taking Charge of Leisure Time and HealthWise South Africa: Life Skills for Young Adults. She is coauthor of an edited book, Recreation and Youth Development. She is currently chair of the Children and Youth Commission of the World Leisure Association, past president of the Academy of Leisure Sciences, and an elected member of the American Academy of Park and Recreation Administration.
Gladys Carrión has been recognized as a national leader in efforts to reform New York State’s juvenile justice system and an advocate for children and families involved in the child welfare system. She has received numerous awards and served on national advisory committees focused on reforming the juvenile justice system and promoting the well-being of young adults. She was appointed commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) in January 2014. She is now responsible for implementing Close to Home, the city’s juvenile justice program. Prior to her appointment to ACS, she was commissioner of the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), overseeing New York State’s child welfare, early childhood care, and juvenile justice systems. As OCFS commissioner,
Carrión is credited with implementing a differential response model known as Family Assessment Response and overhauling the juvenile justice system.
Stephen Gies has experience with program research and evaluation as well as data gathering, data analysis, database development, and report writing. Currently he is a senior researcher at Development Services Group, and he is also the principal investigator for an evaluation of safe harbor laws funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). He recently completed another OJJDP-funded evaluation of the Girls Circle Program and two National Institute of Justice evaluations of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s program for monitoring high-risk gang and sex offenders. Previously, he directed a 5-year project funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, to evaluate the Boys Town Healthy Choices Program. He also serves as the quality of research review manager for the National Registry of Evidenced-based Programs and Practices. In addition, he is the deputy director and principal designer of the OJJDP Model Programs Guide and a senior reviewer and principal developer of the CrimeSolutions Program.
William Hansen served as president of Tanglewood Research between 1993 and 2016. He has served on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles; University of Southern California, and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. He has been the principal investigator or project director on numerous grants and contracts. He has written numerous curricula for school and community-based prevention, including Project SMART, Project STAR, and All Stars. He has authored more than 130 articles in scientific journals on research and evaluation methods, prevention theory, and strategies for successful prevention practice. In 2013, he was named a fellow of the Society for Prevention Research. He is currently working with the nonprofit Barnardo’s Northern Ireland on a project to prevent substance use and violence among teenagers.
Christopher Harris is the spiritual leader of Bright Star Church in his native Chicago. A noted gospel and jazz singer, he has ministered in song in more than 20 countries and recorded on over 15 projects. He is also the founder of Bright Star Community Outreach, a nonprofit organization dedicated to youth antiviolence programs, educational enrichment, and school improvement in the Bronzeville Community. He is a national council member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and travels the country building relationships between African American and Jewish clergy.
David J. Kolko is professor of psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics, and clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he directs the Services for Kids in Primary Care Program, which is designed to promote integrated pediatric health care. Dr. Kolko is also director of the Special Services Unit at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, a program devoted to the development and dissemination of evidence-based practices for children or adolescents served in diverse community settings or systems including juvenile justice, child welfare, pediatric primary care, and mental health. He is board-certified in child and adolescent psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a fellow of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) and the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice (Division 37) of the American Psychological Association. He also serves as adjunct staff in the Section of Behavioral Health at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Specific areas of current interest include the integration of behavioral health services in pediatric primary care and family health centers, adaptations of the collaborative care model, personalized treatment targets, and the promotion of academic health care partnerships to advance the science of implementation. He is co-developer of Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Amy Margolis is the director of the Division of Program Development and Operations in the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), and the lead for the office’s National Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. She is responsible for developing programmatic and policy guidance, monitoring program implementation, overseeing training and technical assistance for grantees, and communicating lessons learned and program successes. Prior to joining OAH, she oversaw research and evaluation projects related to family planning for the Office of Population Affairs. She began her federal service in the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she worked with national, state, and local organizations to implement and evaluate school health programs to prevent HIV infection and promote physical activity and healthy eating.
Velma McBride Murry is the Lois Autrey Betts chair in education and human development, Joe B. Wyatt distinguished university professor, and professor of human and organizational development in Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. She has conducted research on African American parents and youth for more than 15 years. Findings from these empirical studies informed the development of a curriculum, the Strong African American Families Program. She recently completed a National Institute of Mental Health-funded program entitled Pathways to African Americans’ Success. She is the author of more than 100 scientific articles. She is a member of the
National Academies of Medicine, Board on Children, Youth, and Families and member of the Healthy Parenting and Primary Care Task Force; she also chaired the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Psychology and AIDS. She has received numerous awards, including the 2014 Society for Prevention Research Award for Contributions in Community, Culture and Prevention Science and the 2014 American Psychological Association Presidential Citation, Distinguished Research and Contributions for Children, Youth, and HIV/AIDS.
Patrick O’Carroll is the regional health administrator for Region X of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS). He led the epidemiology research unit for the prevention of suicide and violence at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention Control. In 1992, he began working in public health informatics. He co-led the development of CDC WONDER, was lead scientist on the CDC Prevention Guidelines Database project, and developed the nation’s first training course and textbook in public health informatics. As associate director for health informatics at CDC’s Public Health Practice Program Office, he developed and directed CDC’s Health Alert Network Program. In his more than 30 years with CDC and USPHS, he has received numerous awards and recognition for his work. He holds affiliate associate professor appointments in the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the UW School of Medicine.
Manuel Ángel Oscós-Sánchez is a professor of medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Since 2005, he has sustained a successful community-academic research partnership to develop, implement, and evaluate youth violence prevention programs in a Latino community with the use of a Positive Youth Development framework. Community members, primarily adolescents and their parents, are full participants in the research process. The community has participated in conception, design, grant submissions, data collection, intervention development and implementation, data analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of results.
Heidi Peterson currently works as the director for Communities That Care Program in Tooele City, Utah. She coordinates efforts to identify local risk and protective factors, then implement evidence-based programming to positively affect outcomes. In her work, she helps families and youth to thrive and specializes in suicide prevention, training community members and key leaders in suicide prevention and best prevention practices.
Richard Spoth is the F. Wendell Miller senior prevention scientist and the director of the Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute at Iowa State University. He provides oversight for an interrelated set of projects addressing research questions on prevention program engagement, program effectiveness, culturally competent programming, and dissemination of evidence-based programs through community-university partnerships. Among his National Institutes of Health-funded projects, he received a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a large-scale study evaluating combined family- and school-based interventions. He has served on numerous federally sponsored expert and technical review panels addressing issues in prevention research and research-practice integration and briefed many policy makers on these topics. He received the Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research, as well as the Service to the Society for Prevention Research Award for leadership on the Task Force on Type 2 translation research and the Presidential Award for lifetime scientific achievement.
Stacy Sterling is a scientist with the Drug and Alcohol Research Team at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Division of Research. Her current research focus is on developing systems for implementing evidence-based, integrated behavioral health services into primary care. She has overseen the implementation of region-wide alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in KPNC adult primary care. She is the principal investigator (PI) of a Conrad N. Hilton Foundation-funded study to develop predictive models for adolescent use problem development, and of a Hilton Foundation-funded trial of single-session versus multisession SBIRT for adolescents and parents in pediatric primary care. She is also the Kaiser PI of a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) adolescent SBIRT trial in pediatric primary care; an NIAAA survey of pediatrician attitudes toward and practices of adolescent behavioral health risk screening and intervention; and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment-funded studies of adolescents in drug and alcohol treatment at Kaiser.
Albert Terrillion is the deputy director for evaluation and research for the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America’s federally funded National Coalition Institute. He is a health professional with more than 20 years of experience at the local, state, and national levels. He has worked in and with rural and urban communities in Louisiana, Virginia, and other states and territories. His work has included building partnerships between health systems and community groups and supporting communities to use data and evidence-based practices to improve health outcomes. He worked in academic translational research, community improvement, and health
workforce training and prevention education, including leading several initiatives to support recovery from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Sue Thau is a public policy consultant representing Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. She is nationally recognized for her advocacy and legislative accomplishments on behalf of the substance abuse prevention field. She has an extensive background in public policy and has held high positions at the federal, state, and local levels. She was a budget examiner and legislative analyst at the Office of Management and Budget, in the Executive Office of the President for more than 10 years. She worked for the passage, reauthorization, and full funding of the Drug-Free Communities Act. In addition, she has worked to save and enhance funding for other federal substance abuse prevention and treatment programs over the last two decades. She has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University in human development and family studies and a master’s degree from Rutgers University in city and regional planning.
Patrick H. Tolan is professor of education and of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he is director of Youth-Nex: The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. Prior to starting the center in 2009, he directed the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois. For the past 30 years, he has conducted longitudinal research with multiple collaborators on an ecological-developmental understanding of youth psychological and social functioning. He is a fellow of five divisions of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Aggression, and the Society for Experimental Criminology. In 2007, he was awarded the Star of Science Award from the Children’s Brain Research Foundation, and in 2008, he received a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. He was the 2016 recipient of the Nicholas Hobbs Award from the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice.
Leslie R. Walker-Harding is currently professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center and medical director of Penn State Children’s Hospital. She was previously professor and vice chair of faculty affairs in the Department of Pediatrics and chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is the codirector of Seattle Children’s Adolescent Substance Abuse Program. She is the director of the Maternal and Child Health-funded multidisciplinary training program for Leadership in Adolescent Health. Her research has been focused on adolescent risk behaviors, adolescent and young adult substance abuse, and ADHD to adolescent pregnancy prevention. She is a past president of the Society
for Adolescent Health and Medicine. She was appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Substance Use and Prevention and elected to the American Pediatric Society Council.
Ellen-Marie Whelan is the chief population health officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s (CMSs) Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services and a senior adviser at the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, coordinating the pediatric portfolio across the center. In both positions she assists in the design, implementation, and testing of delivery system transformation and payment reform initiatives. Before coming to CMS, she was the associate director of health policy at the Center for American Progress (CAP). Prior to joining CAP, she was a health policy adviser in the U.S. Senate for 5 years, was a health services researcher and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, and practiced as a nurse practitioner for more than a decade. She has worked in a variety of primary care settings and started an adolescent primary care clinic in West Philadelphia.
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