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Appendix A: Study Process and Committee Membership
Appendix A: Study Process and Committee Membership
Pages 391-404
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During this period, the committee also reviewed leading reports in the mental health and substance-use fields, such as the 1999 Surgeon General's report on mental health, the 2003 report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) report Changing the Conversation-Improving Substance Abuse Treatment: The National Treatment Plan Initiative.
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Some of the extensive evidence reviewed by the committee came from the specialty mental health and substance-use health care fields, some from health services research and other empirical evidence from general health care, and some from other disciplines. The committee's interdisciplinary review of the evidence was completed in June 2005.
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He is the author of many articles and books on law and ethics in clinical practice, including four that were awarded the Manfred S Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Acad
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He is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Mandatory Outpatient Treatment. He has received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association for "outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence," was Fritz Redlich fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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He has received several national awards for his work, including the 2000 American Psychiatric Association Early Career Health Services Research Award, the 2000 AcademyHealth Article-of-theYear Award, and the AcademyHealth 2003 Alice S Hersh New Investigator Award.
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He is a founding fellow and former president of the American College of Mental Health Administration and founding editor of Administration and Policy in Mental Health, a professional journal for the behavioral health field. His books, many journal articles, and presentations at professional meetings throughout the world have significantly advanced the state of knowledge in behavioral health.
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Prior to joining Partners, he founded the University of Pennsylvania medical center's first program in geriatric psychiatry and developed it into a nationally recognized research, training, and clinical program, later serving as executive vice chair and interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry and as associate dean for managed care for the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
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Prior to her appointment at NIMH, she was research program director and state school psychology consultant with the Texas Education Agency, supervising a statewide, multidisciplinary program of research on communitybased mental health and educational services for children with serious emotional, behavioral, and developmental disorders.
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Her major research contributions have addressed the impact of mental health care for ethnic minority communities, including a trial of treatment of depression in impoverished minority patients at San Francisco General Hospital and a study of care for depression in low-income, minority women screened through county entitlement programs.
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Previously, he was deputy medical director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the founding director of APA's Office of Research, executive director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, and cochair of the Work Group to Update the Text of DSM-IV (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition)
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He is professor of medicine and social and behavioral sciences at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health and chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at the medical school and Boston Medical Center, as well as vice chair for public health of the Department of Medicine. In 1995 he became medical director of the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Services Division of the Boston Public Health Commission.
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He has worked as a clinician in diverse settings, including a state mental hospital, Veterans Affairs medical center, county mental health center, hospital-based behavioral medicine clinic, partial hospital program, private group practice, and solo independent practice. He earned masters and doctorate degrees in counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota, a masters degree in management science from Stanford Business School as a Bush Leadership Fellow, and a masters degree in philosophy from Delhi University.
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Although her professional life has included working as a registered nurse in a refugee camp in Cambodia with the Red Cross, serving as a nursing home administrator, starting the first clinics for the homeless in Milwaukee, and creating programs to meet the needs of persons with mental illnesses in boarding homes, her own mental illness of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, present since age 7, was not correctly diagnosed and treated for decades. On her fiftieth birthday, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
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She has 16 years of experience as a leader in mental health education and has directed a pilot site for the National Institute of Mental Health's Depression: Awareness, Recognition and Treatment program, as well as provided training for model education program nationwide. Her passion for mental health advocacy is fueled by the experiences of her mother, daughter, and granddaughter, who have all lived successfully with mental illnesses.
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