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Appendix C: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Pages 87-102

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From page 87...
... Armstrong is a former member of the board of directors of the National Council for Behavioral Health, i2i Center for Integrative Health, and RI International. His awards and recognitions include Mental Health America's 2021 H
From page 88...
... She is the co-chair of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Steering Committee, serves on the Clinical Advisory Council for Crisis Text Line and as a Crisis Text Line volunteer, and is a Crisis Center site examiner for the American Association of Suicidology. Crystal Barksdale, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the acting deputy director and the chief of the Minority Mental Health Research Program at the National Institute
From page 89...
... Jeffrey A Bridge, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist and the director of the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital; the Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair of Innovation in Behavioral Health Research; and a professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, and behavioral health at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
From page 90...
... Covington has served on the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Executive Committee since 2010. He was also the vice chair of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Steering Committee from 2005 until 2020 and served as a former president of the American Association of Suicidology.
From page 91...
... This research has been used by SAMHSA and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to support the passage of the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020. Her research -- most notably in the areas of suicide contagion/clusters; screening and assessment of suicide risk; and crisis interventions -- has laid the groundwork for state, national, and international suicide prevention programs.
From page 92...
... commissioner of mental health from 2007 to 2012, and now operates a consulting practice in health and behavioral health care. The NYS 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.
From page 93...
... Johnson is the program lead of the Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Suicide Prevention Program, which provides grants for states, tribes, and territories to reduce suicides among 10- to 24-year-olds. He is also the GPO for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, which provides suicide-specific materials, webinars, and training to organizations and communities all over the country working to prevent suicides.
From page 94...
... She is an active member of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology, and the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders, and has more than 40 publications in the areas of integrated primary care, suicide prevention, mental health business operations, and training of mental health providers. Barbara Limandri, Ph.D., PMHNP, BC, is a retired psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a professor emerita at Linfield University in Portland, Oregon.
From page 95...
... Lindsey is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice in Social Work, and serves on the editorial boards of Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Psychiatric Services, School Mental Health, and Prevention Science. He holds a Ph.D.
From page 96...
... Together, these two teams deliver a full continuum of best practice crisis services, powered by customized software and technology solutions and real-time access to mental health and substance use services, diverting thousands from hospital emergency departments and justice systems to care in communities throughout the United States. They were both leading contributors to the development of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's Crisis Now exceptional practice standards in crisis care.
From page 97...
... Roary is currently the director of the Office of Behavioral Health Equity at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She is also an adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America.
From page 98...
... Currently, he is an internal medicine physician practicing within the VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System. He has research appointments within the VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention and the Denver-Seattle Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care.
From page 99...
... Whiteside is national faculty for the Zero Suicide initiative, a practical approach to suicide prevention in health care and behavioral health care systems. This program was described by NPR on a segment titled "What Happens If You Try to Prevent Every Single Suicide?
From page 100...
... Her research focuses on public mental health and substance use treatment in the United States, health care reform, evidencebased practice implementation and sustainment in complex systems, and the advancement of culturally and contextually relevant programs to support marginalized groups affected by inequities. Her current work entails the application of implementation science theory and methods to support innovative programming to reduce health and health care disparities for minoritized populations in diverse service delivery settings, such as primary care practices, hospital emergency departments, and educational institutions.
From page 101...
... Zhang joined NIH in 2012 as a program director in the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities' Division of Extramural Scientific Programs, where he provided leadership for scientific program development and project management on minority health and health disparities research. He spearheaded the development of research initiatives including multi-level chronic disease prevention, simulation modeling and system science, enhancing diversity in biomedical data science, and social determinants of health collection using the PhenX Toolkit.
From page 102...
... 102 STRATEGIES AND INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE SUICIDE U.S. Public Health Service, including two Presidential Unit Citations and two Outstanding Service Medals.


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