Technical Expert Panel

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TECHNICAL EXPERT PANEL

TECHNICAL EXPERT PANEL
Name

Organization

Expertise

Michael H. Allen

Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine,
University of Colorado School of Medicine; Director of
Research, University of Colorado Depression Center;
Senior Investigator, Veterans Integrated Services Network
19 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center

Emergency psychiatry
research

Alisa Busch

Director of Integration of Clinical Measurement and Health
Services Research at McLean Hospital; Chief, Health
Services Research Division, Partners Psychiatry and
Mental Health, a division of Partners HealthCare; Associate
Professor of Psychiatry and Health Care Policy, Harvard
Medical School

Psychiatry, quality of care,
health services research

Richard Dougherty

Chief Executive Officer, DMA Health Strategies

Mental health and Medicaid
policy and systems

Jonathan Edwards

Director of Peer Counseling, Division of Wellness,
Recovery, and Community Integration, Kings County
Hospital Center, New York, NY

Consumer perspectives on
emergency and inpatient
services, mental health
recovery and service
delivery systems

Karen Johnson

Senior Vice President of Clinical Services, Behavioral
Health Division, Universal Health Services, Inc.

IMDs across many states

Theodore Lutterman

Director of Research, National Association of State Mental
Health Program Directors Research Institute

Data systems of state
mental health authorities

Kathleen McCann

Director, Quality and Regulatory Affairs, National
Association of Psychiatric Health Systems

IMDs

Steve Sharfstein

President and Chief Executive Officer, Sheppard Pratt
Health System; Clinical Professor and Vice Chair of
Psychiatry, University of Maryland

IMDs, public mental health
policy

Laura van Tosh

Independent Consultant; Former Director of Consumer
Affairs, Western State Hospital, Washington; Former
Consumer Affairs Coordinator, Greater Oregon Behavioral
Health Care, Inc.

Consumer perspectives on
inpatient care, mental
health policy and program
development

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