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Enola K. Proctor, Center Director
Nationally recognized for her work in advancing the implementation of evidence-based practices in social service settings, Dr. Proctor is a pioneer in the field of mental health services research.
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J. Curtis McMillen, Associate Center Director
Professor McMillen is Associate Director of the Center for Mental Health Services and Director of its Research Methods Core. His current research examines issues related to the quality of mental health services received by child welfare clients, quality improvement and assurance in mental health organizations and the service use of older youth as they leave the foster care system.
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| Investigators |
Greg Aarons, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Deigo
Dr. Aarons is interested in adolescent substance abuse and mental health disorders; organizational climate and culture; leadership; and receptivity of evidence-based practice in mental health and substance abuse services.
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Wendy Auslander, Director, Center Research Network Development Core
Professor Auslander's work focuses on health care/health behaviors, evaluation of interventions, behavioral and family research in diabetes, HIV prevention among adolescents at risk, minority health and health promotion, family functioning, and chronic illness.
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John Constantino, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics, WU School of Medicine
Dr. Constantino's research interests include the influence of genetic and environmental influences on early social development; prevention of antisocial behavior and violence; and longitudinal research on the life course and genetic structure of autistic social impairment.
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Renee Cunningham-Williams, Associate Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Dr. Cunningham-Williams' research centers on the comorbidity of mental health disorders, particularly those relating to behavioral addictions, risk taking, and antisocial behaviors.
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Kristin Hawley, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia Dr. Hawley's current research focus is on improving youth mental health services in community-based settings by collaborating with service providers and families.
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Peter Hovmand, Director, Social System Design Lab (SSDLab), George Warren Brown School of Social Work Dr. Hovmand’s research focuses on how to implement and sustain innovations in human services and communities with applications in mental health, domestic violence, child welfare, health care, and natural resources.
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Melissa Jonson-Reid, Associate Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Dr. Jonson-Reid studies outcomes associated with child and adolescent abuse and neglect. She is particularly interested in how the relationship between child maltreatment and later educational, health, and socio-behavioral outcomes may be moderated by child welfare and educational services provision.
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Patricia (Trish) Kohl, Assistant Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Dr. Kohl’s reseach is informed by her clinical experience with maltreated children and their families in public and private settings. Her research focuses on the safety and mental health of children following entry into the child welfare system. Specifically, she studies how characteristics of parents within this system of care influence outcomes, and the translatability of evidence-based parent-mediated interventions into the child welfare system.
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Eric Lenze, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, WU School of Medicine
Dr. Lenze's areas of interest include anxiety and depression intervention in geriatrics and elderly persons' mental health during rehabilitation after a disabling medical event.
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Monica M. Matthieu, Research Assistant Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Dr. Matthieu’s interests and research topics include implementing and evaluating evidence-based suicide prevention programs into new communities, clinical services for populations coping with extreme stress or trauma, the clinical providers’ role in organizational change efforts, and the impact of disasters on clinical providers and their wellbeing.
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Nancy Morrow-Howell, Associate Director, Center Research Network Development Core; Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work; and Faculty Associate of the Center for Social Development at the Brown School
Professor Morrow-Howell has been on the faculty at the Brown school since 1987 and was named the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work in 2003.
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Juan Peña, Assistant Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Dr. Peña’s research interests include suicide prevention, HIV prevention, adolescence, Latinos, and acculturation.
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Carrie Pettus-Davis,
Assistant Professor Carrie Pettus-Davis has an active portfolio of research and direct practice experience focused on criminal justice and the needs of prison populations, including recently released prisoners. Her work in this area has earned her several awards including a prestigious Impact Award for conducting research of high significance.
Dr. Pettus-Davis places high importance on establishing university-criminal justice collaborations in order to achieve mutually beneficial applied research and practice goals. She collaborates with community practitioners to develop practical research trials and apply corrective modeling approaches to program development and evaluation. Dr. Pettus-Davis’ intervention research focuses on social support, social networks, substance use disorders, and mental health problems in justice-involved adults with the aim of interrupting the cycle of incarceration.
Dr. Pettus-Davis completed her doctorate in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a Masters of Social Work Administration and bachelor's degrees in social work and psychology, all from the University of Kansas. Dr. Pettus-Davis joined the Brown School in July 2011. She teaches courses in the evaluation of programs and services, substance abuse and criminal justice.
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Ramesh Raghavan, Assistant Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, WU School of Medicine
Dr. Raghavan’s research focuses on mental health services and policies for vulnerable children, especially those in the child welfare system.
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Paul Shattuck, Assistant Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Dr. Shattuck is a national expert on disabilities, specifically autism. He has published a number of articles on the prevalence and course of autism as well as on policies and services for people with autism and their families.
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Edward L. Spitznagel Jr., Professor of Mathematics, WU School of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Spitznagel works with the Center in research matters concerning his research interest in biostatistics.
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Emily Woltmann,
Emily Woltmann joined the Brown School in July 2011 as an assistant professor. Prior to her faculty appointment at Brown, Dr. Woltmann completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Severe Mental Illness Training and Evaluation Center (VA Ann Arbor Health Care System), the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the VA Ann Arbor HSR&D Center for Practice Management and Outcome Research.
Dr. Woltmann holds a doctorate from the Program in Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College. Her dissertation focused on the development and evaluation of a consumer-directed decision support system for mental health.
She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan.
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| Faculty Associates |
John A. Landsverk, Implementation Research Institute Associate Director
Dr. Landsverk is the Associate Director of the Implementation Research Institute. We brought him to the IRI to teach the Fellows about launching pilot work for implementation research, research methods challenges, and to facilitate the Fellows’ presentations.
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Lonnie Snowden, Senior Scholar, George Warren Brown School of Social Work; School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkley
Dr. Snowden's areas of interest include access and effectiveness of care to minority and underserved populations.
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| Staff |
Ana Baumann, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Center for Latino Family Research
Dr. Baumann collaborates with Dr. Sue Pfefferle on Dr. Pfefferle’s NUMOMS project. She is a Center for Latino Family Research postdoctoral fellow at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
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Peter Doré, Center Director of Data Management, CMHSR/CAC Projects
Peter's interests include designing and developing database applications to improve the efficiency and accuracy of research data collection, he specializes in Subject Tracking/ Project Management databases and creating data entry systems.
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David Dixon, Statistical Data Analyst
Dr. Dixon has over thirty-five years experience designing and conducting statistical analyses for quantitative research projects.
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Erin Leaver, Administrative Coordinator Erin Leaver joined the Center for Mental Health Services Research in 2006 after previously working with Washington University's School of Medicine.
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Stacey McCrary, Project Manager
Stacey is currently the project manager for the project titled: Testing an Organizational Implementation Strategy in Children’s Mental Health.
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Suchitra (Susie) Rath, Data Manager/Analyst Susie Rath works as a Data Manager/Analyst for the Center.
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Debra Robinson, Project Manager, TFCOY Project
Debra Robinson is currently the Project Manager for Preventing Conduct Disorder Among Children in the Child Welfare System (National Institute for Child Health and Human Development- 1R01HD061454-01A1).
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Wayne Blinne, Data Manager (contract worker) Wayne Blinne serves the Center as a Data Manager. |