Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Pages 107-120
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James Allen, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health and senior scientist with the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team for American Indian and Rural Health Equity at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus. He was previously Associate Director at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research 107
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He currently works with Alaska Native communities developing an evidence base for a culturally grounded multi-level intervention promoting protective factors to prevent youth suicide and alcohol risk, and documenting community-level resilience structures promoting youth well-being and protection from suicide. Allison Barlow, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.
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Previously, Captain Colston served as the Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. As the director of the Mental Health Program in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Captain Colston oversaw a project that reviewed more than 200,000 cases involving posttraumatic stress dis order and depression diagnoses, led a mental health team in the independent investigation of the Washington Navy Yard tragedy, and co-chaired DoD's Addictive Substances Misuse Advisory Committee.
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He is also the Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Steering Committee. He has served on numerous committees and task forces on clinical care and crisis services, including the National Council for Behavioral Health Board of Directors.
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Michael Hogan, Ph.D., served as the New York State Commissioner of Mental Health from 2007 to 2012, and now operates a consulting practice in health and behavioral health care focusing on health care issues with significant public health impact, especially suicide prevention. The New York State Office of Mental Health operated 23 accredited psychiatric hospitals, and oversaw New York's $5 billion public mental health system serving 650,000 individuals annually.
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Ms. Husbands has previously worked as a Regional Suicide Prevention Specialist for the Florida state youth suicide prevention SAMHSA-funded grant, where she provided technical assistance to behavioral health providers on Zero Suicide implementation as well as provided suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention trainings to community members.
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He has spent most of his career working in community mental health, including 11 years as director of a sychiatric emergency service and 4 years as an associate administrator/ p clinical director of a hospital-based community mental health center in Newton, New Jersey. In 2001, he was awarded an American Psychological Association Congressional Fellowship and worked for U.S.
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He served on the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Task Force that revised the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and participated in the development of the World Health Organizaion's World Suicide Prevention Report. He is also the co-chair of t the Federal Working Group on Suicide Prevention.
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Joshua Prasad, M.P.H., is currently the director of the Concerted Care Group (CCG) integrated behavioral health and wellness center focused on addiction in Frederick, Maryland.
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He oversees the work on multiple projects such as the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, the Zero Suicide Institute, the Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, the Children's Safety Network, several violence prevention initiatives and serves as co-director of the Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention with partners at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His interests include geriatrics, mental health, suicide prevention, global violence prevention, and public policy.
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Mr. Wocasek has worked as a clinician at the Southcentral Foundation Pathway Home for 4 years where he addressed behavioral health and substance abuse issues with adolescents in a residential treatment setting.
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Currently he is the clinical director of an intensive outpatient service focused on reducing psychotic symptoms through the teaching and enhancement of normalization and positive life functioning skills. NATIONAL ACADEMIES STAFF AND CONSULTANTS Natacha Blain, J.D., Ph.D., serves as the director of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the National Academies.
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He is a graduate of Colorado College and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Sharyl Nass, Ph.D., serves as the director of the Board on Health Care Services and the director of the National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF)
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, designing and evaluating epidemiological research studies u sing VA data for health outcomes related to deployment-related exposures including burn pits and chemicals, and directing a research program of fostering new research studies using data and biospecimens collected as part of the 20-year Air Force Health Study. Before coming to the National Academies, Ms.
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