Aleta Angelosante, PhD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the NYU Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry where she serves as the Clinical Director of the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Service. Dr. Angelosante treats children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety disorders – including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and panic disorder, depressive disorders, and other related disorders using evidence based interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), habit reversal therapy (HRT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).  She has published articles and chapters on youth anxiety, and currently is the Lead Trainer at the Evidenced-Based Treatment Dissemination Center, training mental health practitioners throughout New York State. Dr. Angelosante has been intensively trained in DBT and is a Training Professional for Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP).

Adam Bernstein has led PracticeWise technology operations for over a decade and provides leadership and management for clinical products. He received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA and a coterminal B.A. in computer science and M.A. in psychology from Stanford University. This dual clinical and technical expertise makes him well-suited to build and communicate the applied tools of clinical science, moving from the data bits to the training room and administrative consultation. His research has focused on helping service systems inform selection of evidence-based treatments to benefit as many youths and families as possible in their unique local service populations.

Prof. Leonard Bickman Ph.D. is currently Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Ontrak Health, a research professor at Florida International University and professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University. He serves on the National Advisory Council for the U.S. Center for Mental Health Services. He is coeditor of two handbooks on social research methods and a forthcoming handbook on program evaluation. He is editor-in-chief and founder of Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. He has published more than 15 books and monographs, and 200 articles and chapters and received several national awards including The American Psychological Association’s Public Interest Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy and a Fulbright Senior Scholarship. He is a past president of the American Evaluation Association and winner of their Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award.

Heather Brennan, Ph.D., is the CEO of PracticeWise. She brings more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry with a focus on strategic direction and business growth in women’s health and wellness. Prior to joining PracticeWise, Dr. Brennan has held a variety of executive leadership positions including serving as the VP/General Manager of MTF Biologics’ Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Franchise, where she drove significant growth and solidified a leadership spot for the company in post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. Dr. Brennan is passionate about using her experience in the business of healthcare to advance the field of behavioral health and enhance patient outcomes through scientific evidence. She graduated from Lehigh University with a Mechanical Engineering degree and from Rutgers University with her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering.

Bruce Chorpita, PhD, is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD in psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York under the direction of David Barlow. Dr. Chorpita performed his clinical residency at the University of Mississippi, and held a faculty position with the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii from 1997 to 2008. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Chorpita also served as the Clinical Director of the Hawaii State Department of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, helping implement evidence-based services statewide in their system of care. During this time, Dr. Chorpita received awards from the Hawaii Psychological Association, the Hawaii Board of Regents, and Governor Linda Lingle.

Dr. Chorpita currently directs the Child FIRST Program at UCLA, which is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of mental health services delivered to all children, through innovation in mental health treatment design, clinical decision-making and information-delivery models, and mental health system architecture and processes. This work occurs primarily in the context of partnerships with community agencies delivering mental health services throughout California and across the country. Dr. Chorpita also is president of PracticeWise, LLC, a consulting organization that provides decision support technology and training to mental health organizations across the country and that regularly publishes a report of evidence-based child and adolescent psychosocial interventions for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Eric Daleiden, Ph.D. seeks to help youth and families achieve their personal vision of the good life through his professional endeavors, engagement in community and youth development activities, and family dedication. He is currently the president of Kismetrics, LLC and a partner of PracticeWise, LLC. He has experience launching and growing multiple organization including as co-founder of PracticeWise, LLC, the Research and Evaluation Training Program of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, the Center for Community Research and Development at the University of Tulsa, and a community soccer collective that has been thriving for 20 years. Dr. Daleiden holds degrees in psychology and philosophy with a Ph.D. in psychology from The Ohio State University. He has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters with his research of the past decade focused on improving understanding and delivery of behavioral health services, including efficient ways to identify, implement, evaluate, adapt, and coordinate mental health treatments for youth supported by high quality evidence from scientific and service systems. Specific topics include analytic models for extracting and aggregating information from independent lines of treatment research across a body of literature; design and implementation of modular, multi-focus, multi-investigator evidence-based treatments; and measurement feedback systems design, implementation, and evaluation. Dr. Daleiden’s recent investigations are exploring opportunities afforded by contemporary large-scale efforts toward health information interoperability and semantically linked data.

Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Ph.D., is Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She served as Vice Chair for Research in the Department from 2012 to 2019. She holds a joint position with the Division of Children, Youth and Families at the New York State Office of Mental Health as a Research Scientist. Previously she was Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University, specializing in children’s mental health services research. Before coming to New York, she was Associate Director for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research with the National Institute of Mental Health, and oversaw the entire portfolio of research on children and adolescents, spanning basic to applied studies. This gave her a broad perspective on research gaps and the theoretical and methodological connections that exist among different areas of science. In 2000 she served as the Scientific Editor for the Office of the Surgeon General’s National Action Agenda on Children’s Mental Health with Dr. David Satcher. She was instrumental in crafting NIMH’s Blueprint for Change report, which forecasted the emergence of the field of implementation and dissemination research, and she also contributed to the 1999 Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health.

In 2012, she was awarded the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Dissemination and Implementation Science SIG Achievement Award. In 2015, she received the Carl A. Taube Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). She has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and monographs, and has been appointed to two National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committees: Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders and the Forum for Children’s Well-Being, where she currently co-chairs the Collaborative on Pediatric Vital Signs for the Health and Well-Being of Children.

Dr. Hoagwood is Director of the Center for Implementation-Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices among States, known as IDEAS, an ALACRITY Center funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH113662) (www.ideas4kidsmentalhealth.org). This work builds on two prior NIMH-funded centers, as well as numerous other federal grants and state contracts, all focused on improving children’s mental health services in state systems. Her specific research interests focus on parent activation in children’s health services, quality measurement in children’s behavioral health, and improving state policies that affect child and family services through the use of scientific evidence.

Vanessa Holm is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is currently working at Pacific Clinics as the Manager of Clinical Foundations, Developer in the Learning & Development Department.  Pacific Clinics Clinical Foundations Skills Development Program was developed in collaboration with PracticeWise and is our Managing & Adapting Practices (MAP) Model of training direct service providers, evidenced informed clinical decision-making, and direct service tools.  Clinical Foundations Trainings have a total of six Modules including four of which that cover: Disruptive Behavior, Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma.

During the past seven years, she has held various positions at Pacific Clinics including Program Manager of Wraparound, and Clinical Program Manager of Success First, an early Wraparound framework in which she managed contracts and teams, provided clinical and administrative supervision, and trained employees in a variety of topics such as: Active Shooter, Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessments (CANS), Crisis Intervention, and Safety Planning. Vanessa is an advocate and passionate about ensuring trauma-informed practices are integrated into agency policies, practices, and trainings. She participates in Pacific Clinics Trauma-Informed Leadership Committee (TLC) and Trauma-Informed Learning Team (TILT).

Over the past two decades, Vanessa has worked in a variety of clinical settings which include non-profit organizations where she has provided direct services to clients and families, oversight for a variety of contracts, trained team members in direct service and skill development, and provided clinical supervision. She assisted service members and their families as an independent contractor with the government as a Crisis Response Supervisor for the Navy at the Fleet and Family Support Center in San Diego, California. Vanessa worked as an Emergency Response Social Worker with the Department of Children and Family Services investigating referrals of allegations of child abuse and neglect.  Her areas of knowledge and expertise include: training and trainer development, adoption, trauma, child abuse, crisis intervention, and domestic violence. Vanessa received her Master of Science Degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University, San Bernardino.

Pat’s lived experience as a parent set the foundation for her career path. As a nationally recognized family-leader, Hunt brings over 30 years of experience promoting and advancing positive outcomes for children with behavioral health needs and their caregivers. Hunt’s extensive experience with overseeing federal and state grants includes serving as the founding director of a statewide family-run organization. Pat has served as a VISTA Volunteer; directed a three year federally funded rural substance abuse prevention project; managed SAMHSA statewide network and community action grants, served as president of the Maine’s mental health planning council and was the only non-state employee member appointed to the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet early in her career. A key leader in shifting policy in Maine yielded her appointment by the President of the Senate to an oversight committee for children’s services. Her expertise in public policy and planning has supported 42 states to develop policy solutions, and implement and sustain evidence-based and best practices for children, young adults and their families. Her accomplishments also include developing policy briefs for grassroots experience to inform state and national decisions, and providing consultation to federally funded comprehensive community mental health System of Care sites to advance technical and adaptive change. Hunt received nominations for Robert Woods Johnson and Lewis Hine awards. During the past 20 years, her personal experience has continued to inform her work in the managed care industry and two national family-run organizations. This experience continues to fuel her passion for developing solutions within child serving systems.

Dr. John LaNear serves as Vice President of Academic Affairs for Capitol Technology University. Until this recent appointment, Dr. LaNear was Provost and Chief Academic Officer for Northcentral University. In previous roles, he has served as a faculty member, department chair, dean, and in various other administrative roles in private and public colleges and universities in California, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Prior to his work in higher education, Dr. LaNear practiced law and served as an Assistant Attorney General in the state of Missouri. Dr. LaNear’s academic research has focused on two key areas: academic freedom and special education law. He has been published in a variety of journals focused on education and law, including Education and the Law, the Encyclopedia of Education Law, the Journal of Educational Administration, the Journal of Law and Education, the Education Law Reporter, and others. He was selected as a Fellow of the Higher Education Law Roundtable at the University of Houston and has given numerous professional presentations for a variety of organizations, including the Association for Study of Higher Education, the Education Law Association, the American Education Research Association, and the University Council for Educational Administration. Dr. LaNear has also served as Regional Higher Education Case Reporter for the Education Law Association’s School Law Reporter and as School Law and Higher Education Editor for the Missouri Bar Association’s Courts and CLE Bulletin. John earned a B.A. in English from Missouri State University, J.D. degree from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law, a M.S. in Educational Administration and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Deborah (Deb) Latzke has been with Counseling Services of Southern Minnesota since 2018. Currently, she is the Director of School-Linked Mental Health Services (SLMH). Deb completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at Southwest Minnesota State University, followed by her Master of Science degree in Community Counseling at Minnesota State University-Moorhead. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) and a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy. Deb is a Nationally Certified Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (TF-CBT), an Eye Movement Desensitization Rehabilitation (EMDR) trained therapist, the agency Supervisor of Managing and Adapting Practices (MAP) in which she also holds certification and is a Minnesota Board Approved Supervisor with the Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy for Licensed Professional Counselors and Alcohol and Drug Counselors.

In addition to her clinical work, Deb provides clinical supervision to clinical trainees and licensed professionals. She provides training to new clinical staff/interns who are part of the School-Linked Program in MAP and assists them in becoming certified as a MAP therapist.  Deb oversees and manages the School-Linked grant and ensures compliance with the State of Minnesota. Deb works in collaboration with supervisors of other specialty services CSSM provides. Most recently, Deb completed and applied for CSSM to become a Certified Substance Use Disorder clinic through the Department of Human Services in the state of Minnesota.

Deb is an advocate for mental health and substance use treatments and services while both providing direct care and supervising staff to ensure compliance and ethical treatment modalities and services are delivered.

Dr. Michael A. Lindsey is a noted scholar of child and adolescent mental health, and a leader in addressing generational poverty and inequality. He is the Dean and Paulette Goddard Professor of Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow. Dr. Lindsey led the working group of experts supporting the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health, which created the report Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America. He serves on the New York City Board of Health and is the Incoming President of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

William (Bill) Reay has been a national leader in mental health services and behavioral health services research for more than 25 years. As one of the original Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) developers, Bill was associated with both child and family research centers in Portland, Oregon and Tampa, Florida. As one of the founding members of the National Federation for Children’s Mental Health, he has been central to organizing parents across the United States to improve mental health care for children. Bill is one of the original leaders in the System-of-Care development and movement, and served as a professional research member of the United States Department of Education’s Evaluation Team for the Research and Training Centers.

Bill received his Master of Arts degree in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Nebraska, Department of Psychology, at Omaha. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology with a minor in Law from the University of Nebraska, combined Department of Law and Psychology, College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska. Bill has written numerous professional articles on a variety of subjects associated with public health and behavioral health services.

Dr. Mario Scalora is the director of the Public Policy Center and professor of psychology with the Clinical Training and Law-Psychology Programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as coordinating an active academic research program engaging in collaborative research in targeted violence. He received his B.S. in psychology from St. Joseph’s University and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests address various types of targeted violence issues including threats to public institutions and infrastructure/threat assessment, sexual offending, stalking, and workplace violence. This research continues to involve collaboration with state and federal agencies dealing with threat management and counterterrorism issues. Dr. Scalora has extensive relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies related to threat assessment research and consultation assessing predictive risk factors and management strategies concerning targeted threatening, and violent activity. In addition to his role as director, Dr. Scalora also serves as a consulting psychologist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police regarding campus safety, threat management, and emergency preparedness.

Dr. James H. Sorrell is a psychiatrist based at the Methodist Fremont Health Behavioral Health outpatient clinic. He majored in philosophy and history as an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before attending medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He completed an internship and residency at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He also completed a residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis. He spent 20 years as a member of the UNMC faculty and working with the medical center’s organ transplant program. He also has served as a consultant for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, assisting with child services and people with developmental disabilities. Dr. Sorrell specializes in helping patients with brain injuries, developmental disabilities, and complex mood disorders like depression.