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Schizophrenia Center of Excellence

Steering Committee
Leadership

Members

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Cindy Beane

MSW, LCSW

  • Owner/CEO, Beane Medicaid & Health Solutions. Former West Virginia Medicaid Commissioner & Former NAMD Board President​.
  • Led behavioral health transformation for adults and adolescents in West Virginia, expanding community-based services, including implementation of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model.
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Nicholas Briettborde

PhD

  • Established and directs the Ohio State Early Psychosis Intervention Center.
  • Specializes in the development, delivery, and dissemination of specialized clinical interventions for youth and young adults.
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Michael Compton

MD, MPH

  • Extensive prior research in first-episode psychosis and co-author of a book written specifically for first-episode patients and their family members: The First Episode of Psychosis: A Guide for Patients and Their Families.​
  • Currently conducts research on criminal justice involvement among individuals with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses, and co-editor of the book: Entangled: How People with Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems.
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Pamela Greenberg

MPP

  • Retired President and CEO of the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness.
  • Worked in health care policy in Washington, D.C. for over three and a half decades with a focus on behavioral health and managed care​.
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Kate Hardy

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  • Co-director for the INSPIRE clinic at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Stanford University​.
  • Co-Lead Psychosis Risk and Early Psychosis Program Network​.
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Robert Heinssen

PhD, ABPP

  • Former Director of Division of Intervention and Service Research, NIMH​.
  • Leader in science-to-practice initiatives in serious mental illness, including psychosis risk states, first episode psychosis, and suicide prevention​.
  • Principal architect of the nation’s first learning health care system for persons with serious mental illness, the Early Psychosis Intervention Network.
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Mike Hogan

PhD

  • Former Commissioner/Director of New York, Ohio, and Connecticut Depts of Mental Health. Served as Special Master/Court Monitor in US v Miss., a case focused on improvements in the Mississippi mental health system​.
  • Former Chairman of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, former member of National Advisory Mental Health Committee, and first behavioral health representative on The Joint Commission Board​.
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Tara Ann Niendam

PhD

  • Director of the EPI-CAL initiative​.
  • Developed five early psychosis programs in Northern California based on the coordinated specialty care model of early psychosis.
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Rhonda Robinson Beale

MD

  • Former Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Mental Health Services within United Health Group​.
  • Expert in behavioral health parity, healthcare legislation, and quality improvement, having worked with the National Institute of Mental Health and the Institute of Medicine​.
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Megan Sage

DSW

  • Doctor of Social Work/Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 17 years direct experience as a clinician, consultant, researcher, and leader in culturally responsive early psychosis intervention care​.
  • Director of Early Assessment and Support Alliance (EASA) Center for Excellence.
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Anthony Brown

BSN, PHN, RN, LPT, CATC III N, CAMC

  • Founder and director of Coordinating & Assisting Recovery Environments located in Anaheim, CA​.
  • Focused on providing specialized treatment for individuals who suffer with a mental illness combined with a substance use disorder​.
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Clayton Chau

MD, PhD, MASL

  • Former Health Officer and Health Care Agency Director for the County of Orange during the Pandemic​.
  • Former Regional Executive Medical Director of Behavioral Health and Clinical Advisor for Well Being Trust, Providence Health System​.
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Jacqueline Clauss

MD, PhD

  • Child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in the care of adolescents and young adults with early psychotic symptoms​.
  • Co-founder of the RE-SET CHR-P program at Massachusetts General Hospital​.
  • Research expertise centers on leveraging clinical and neuroimaging data to understand risk, resilience, and illness trajectories in psychosis-risk populations​.
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Matcheri Keshavan

MD

  • Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he is the Academic Head of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center​.
  • Editor of Schizophrenia Research, the official journal of the Schizophrenia International Research Society.
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Robert Laitman

MD

  • Triple boarded in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Geriatrics, and has practiced those fields for over 25 yrs. Has transitioned to the TV of psychosis using a biopsychosocial model for optimized clozapine for the last 15-20 years. ​
  • Dr. Laitman, and his wife, Dr Mandel, in their private practice care for over 200 patients, and as medical director of Doromind, Dr. Laitman supervises 5 Nurse Practitioners, and an additional 100 patients.
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Ray Love

PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, FAAPP

  • Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore​.
  • Past President of the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists​.
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Shannon Pagdon

MSW

  • Serves as the Vice President of lived experience research within International Early Intervention & Prevention in Mental health Association​
  • Co-creator of Psychosis Outside the Box, a user-led project that aims to amplify the diversity and richness of experiences described as psychosis​.
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Ian Shaffer

MD, MMM, CPE

  • President of Behavioral Health Management Solutions, LLC, a consulting team that supports organizations in their efforts to deliver and manage effective and efficient mental illness and substance use disorder care​.
  • Served as Medical Director of Behavioral Health for Healthfirst in New York City​.
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Jason Schiffman

PhD

  • Research advances the identification and treatment of individuals at risk for psychosis, focusing on refining diagnostics, implementing psychosocial interventions, reducing stigma, and promoting health for all​.
  • Co-founded three university-community partnerships, including a SAMHSA-funded CHRP program, and is among the few certified trainers of the Structured Interview for Psychosis Risk Syndromes while also consulting for CHRP programs nationwide​.

Leadership

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Gordon Lavigne

MEd​

Chief Executive Officer​

Priya Chirayil

Priya Chirayil

MA, MPH, MSW

Director of Scientific Affairs​

Krissa Rouse

Krissa Rouse

MA, LCPC

Program Manager – Care Initiatives

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David Shern

PhD

Senior Science Advisor

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Mindy Valeria

Operations Coordinator

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