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Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biographies
Pages 139-158

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From page 139...
... He chairs Lilly's Bioethics Advisory Committee and co-chairs Lilly's Pediatric Steering Committee, and he is the past chair of Lilly's Drug Abuse Liability and Dependence Advisory Committee.
From page 140...
... Madelon Baranoski, Ph.D., M.S.N., is an associate professor in the Depart­ ment of Psychiatry, Law and Psychiatry Division, of Yale University School of Medicine, and faculty in the Immigration and Veterans Clinics in the Yale Law School. She is also vice chair of the Yale University Human Investi­ a­ ion Committees and the director of the New Haven Jail Diversion g t Program of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Connecticut Mental Health Center.
From page 141...
... Bernstein was the architect and director of one of the nation's oldest and largest mental health and aging programs. NSO-Older Adult Services in Detroit, Michigan, featured an innovative system that blended inhome services and advocacy to support older adults with persistent mental illnesses in integrated community settings.
From page 142...
... His research work focuses on relationship between severe mental illness and violent crime, violence risk assessment, and the mental health and the suicide risk of prisoners. He has served on advisory boards for NHS research funding committees and the crime reduction charity Nacro, and has given evidence to the U.K.
From page 143...
... He has presented nationally and internationally on seclusion and restraint reform, physician-assisted suicide, mental health reform, sex offender management, violence risk management, outpatient civil commitment, and jail diversion programs. He has also served on state panels addressing access to care for and management of youth with psychiatric disabilities, sex offender registration, sexually violent predator statutes, and civil commitment.
From page 144...
... Before joining Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Greenberg served as associate director of the Police Executive Research Forum, the nation's largest law enforcement think tank and center for research.
From page 145...
... Her principal interests include the course and outcome of major mental illness, psychopharmacology, ethnicity, violence, adolescence, resilience, and qualitative methods. Her research has been conducted with Latino and Latin American immigrants and refugees, along with Euro-American, African American, and Native American populations.
From page 146...
... He has also been awarded two honorary doctoral degrees and is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Dévora Kestel, M.Sc., M.P.H., is a mental health regional adviser at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
From page 147...
... Ray Kotwicki, M.D., M.P.H., is passionate about linking excellent clinical care with medical student education. As the director of medical student education for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University's School of Medicine, he focuses on helping trainees cultivate not only proficiency in delivery of mental health and primary care medical services, but also medical professionalism.
From page 148...
... He is internationally recognized for his research on substance abuse and intimate partner violence, but has been concerned with the impact of alcoholism on child development and the role of marital and family processes in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse. He has also conducted research focused on the prevalence of violence in the lives of young men and women, and factors associated with "bar room" violence.
From page 149...
... Professor Mays is also the director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Center on Research, Education, Training, and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities. She teaches courses on health status and health behaviors of ­ racial and ethnic minority groups, research ethics in bio­ edical and be m havioral research in racial/ethnic minority populations, research methods in minority research, as well as courses on social determinants of mental disorders and psychopathology.
From page 150...
... His recent publications include "AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Young Adult Intimate Partner Violence" (Archives of General Psychiatry, 2010) and "Sexual Violence and Its Health Consequences for Female Children in Swaziland: A Cluster Survey Study" (Lancet, 2009)
From page 151...
... Toben Nelson, Sc.D., is a primary faculty member of the Alcohol Epidemiology Program at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. He has research interests in health policy, organizational change, health behavior during developmental transitions, social determinants of health, program evaluation, prevention of alcohol-attributable harm, violence prevention, and motor vehicle safety.
From page 152...
... Michael Phillips, M.D., M.P.H., is currently the director of the Suicide R ­ esearch and Prevention Center of the Shanghai Mental Health Center, execu­ive director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and t Training in Suicide Prevention at Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, professor of psychiatry and global health at Emory University, professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical epidemiology at Columbia University, vice chair­ erson of the Chinese Society for Injury Prevention and Control, and p treasurer of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. He is currently the principal investigator on a number of multicenter collaborative projects on suicide, depression, and schizophrenia.
From page 153...
... Mr. Rosenthal currently serves on the board of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, acts as co-chair of the Peer Leaders Interest Group for ACMHA: the College for Behavioral Health Leadership, and is a member of the consumer-survivor subcommittee to the Center Mental Health Services
From page 154...
... Professor Saks was a 2009 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and in fall 2010 announced she is using funds from the "Genius Grant" to create the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics. The Insti­utet spotlights one important mental health issue per academic year and is a collaborative effort that includes faculty from seven USC departments: law, psychiatry, psychology, social work, gerontology, philosophy, and engi­ neering.
From page 155...
... After providing direct mental health promotion and treatment service for several years in the Baltimore City Public Schools, Dr. Stephan was appointed as director of research for the national Center for School Mental Health (CSMH)
From page 156...
... . He has published numerous articles on firearm policy, youth gun acquisition and carrying, the prevention of gun violence, intimate partner violence, and adolescent violence prevention.
From page 157...
... Guttmacher Forensic Psychiatry Award; chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Mental Disability and the Law; chaired the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Law and Mental Disability; chaired the Advisory Board of the National Center for State Courts' Institute on Mental Disability and Law; was a member of the Panel on Legal Issues of the President's Commission on Mental Health; was a member of the National Commission on the Insanity Defense; served as vice president of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health; received the New York University School of Law Distinguished Alumnus Legal Scholarship/Teaching Award; received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Center for State Courts; and served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and the Law.
From page 158...
... Dr. Wolke has published more than 200 articles in leading jour m nals and is on the editorial boards of several journals and several scientific advisory boards.


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