George Warren Brown School of Social Work
at Washington University in St. Louis
Center for Mental Health Services
Research
Center Directors, Staff, Investigators, and
Students
August 27, 2008
Link here to a list
of Investigators and their Mental Health Projects.
Link here to
Research Methods Core Units and
Teams.
Link to
Scientific
Advisory Group membership.
Link to
Communications
Advisory Group membership.
Front row: Enola Proctor, Erin Leaver, Curtis McMillen
2nd row: Sally Haywood, Lisa Lawrence, Peter Dore
3rd row: Jennifer Bellamy, Cindy Betz, Samantha Books
Fourth row: Peichang Shi, Luis Torres, Luis Zayas Rivera
Center Director
Enola K. Proctor, PhD
Frank J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research and Associate Dean for
Research,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work (Brown School),
Access and adequacy of mental health services, development of best practices,
mental health services for elderly.
Associate
Center
Director
J. Curtis
McMillen,
PhD
Professor, Brown School
Mental health services for child welfare clients;
Quality of care in social and mental health services;
Services for older youth in foster care system.
Staff
Sally Haywood, MPA, Director of Administration
Peter Dore, MA,
Director of Data Management
Samantha (Sam) Books, MPE, Field
Coordinator
Julie Herman, Interim
Administrative Assistant
Lisa Lawrence, MSW, Research
Specialist
Erin
Leaver, BS, Administrative Coordinator
Project
Manager
Natalia Orear, Administrative Assistant
Debra Robinson, MA, Assistant
Field
Coordinator and Project Manager
Peichang Shi, MS, Statistical Analyst
Wayne Blinne, MS, Data Manager
(contract worker)
Nicole Fedoravicius, MPH,
Qualitative Research Specialist (contract worker)
Nikki Caito, MPH, MS, RD, LD,
Research Coordinator (contract worker)
Faculty Leaders, Investigators & Areas of Interests
Wendy Auslander, PhD
Director, Center
Research Network Development Core;
Barbara A. Bailey Professor of Social Work; and Chair of the PhD Program, George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Health and behavior promotion; Family - psychosocial
and behavioral issues in diabetes; HIV prevention; Community participatory
research; Cultural and ethnic factors related to health; Intervention research
and evaluation. (link to a
list
of her mental health projects)
Greg
Aarons, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of
Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
Adolescent
substance abuse and mental health disorders; organizational climate and
culture, leadership; and receptivity to evidence-based practice in mental
health and substance abuse services.
John Constantino, PhD
Associate
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, WU School of Medicine.
Conduct disorder; aggression; autism.
Brett Drake, PhD
Associate Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Children born prenatally exposed to drugs; Child protection and
child protective practice. (link to a list of
his mental health projects)
Clifton R. Emery, PhD
Assistant Professor,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Intimate
Partner Violence.
Kristen Hawley, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Youth Mental Health Services in Community Settings
Peter
Hovmand,
PhD
Assistant Professor, George Warren
Brown School of Social Work.
Service delivery networks;
Organizational performance; Male violence; Implementation of evidence based
practice; System dynamics modeling.
Melissa
Jonson-Reid,
PhD
Associate Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Education and child welfare services policy; Child abuse and
neglect; Interagency service delivery systems; School social work. (link to a
list of her mental health
projects)
Trish (Patricia) Kohl, PhD
Assistant Professor,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Child welfare; Mental health
assessments and diagnosis.
John Landsverk,
PhD
Senior Scholar,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work;
Director,
Child and Adolescent Services
Research Center, San Diego Children's
Hospital.
Child welfare; mental health services.
Eric Lenze,
MD
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry, WU School of Medicine.
Anxiety and depression intervention in
geriatrics; Elderly persons’ mental health during
rehabilitation after a disabling medical event.
Shannon Lenze, PhD
CMHSR Postdoctoral Research
Scholar, through 2009.
Adaptation of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT); Role of Positive Life Events;
Major Depression with Co-occurring Personality Disorder.
Monica M. Matthieu, PhD
Research Assistant Professor,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Trauma; Suicide prevention; Disaster mental
health; Organizational change efforts.
Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD
Associate Director, Center
Research Network Development Core; Ralph and Muriel
Pumphrey Professor of Social Work, and Faculty Associate of the Center for Social
Development (CSD), George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Community services for older adults;
Productive and civic engagement in late life. (link to a
list
of her mental health projects)
Juan
Peņa, PhD
Assistant Professor,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Risk behaviors among female
adolescents; youth suicide; suicide prevention.
Sue Pfefferle, PhD
CMHSR Postdoctoral Research
Associate.
Research
methods; survey research; mental health policy and services; health/mental
health care for children; racial disparities in health care.
Ramesh Raghavan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work; Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry, School of Medicine, joint
appointment.
Access to mental health services; Quality of
mental health care; Health insurance and managed care; Childhood trauma.
Paul Shattuck, PhD
Assistant Professor,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Autism; mental health services.
Edward L. Spitznagel, Jr., PhD
Professor of Mathematics, Arts & Sciences.
Biostatistics. (link to a list
of CMHSR projects on which he is consultant)
Arlene Rubin
Stiffman, PhD
Professor and Director of the
Comorbidity and
Addictions
Center (CAC), George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Services for children, adolescents and families; Child and
adolescent behavior, mental health problems and substance abuse; Risk behaviors. (link
to a list of her mental health
projects)
Renee
C. Williams, PhD
Associate Professor, George
Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Epidemiological, prevention, and intervention research; Health and mental health
disparities; Pathological gambling and comorbidity; Risk taking, substance use
and antisocial behaviors; Crisis intervention.
Anjanette A. Wells, PhD
Assistant Professor,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Adherence/Compliance to Depression Treatment; Culturally Competent
Interventions; Collaborative Care in Primary Care Settings; Community Based
Participatory Research.
Luis H. Zayas, PhD
Shanti K.
Khinduka
Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Director,
Center for Latino
Family Research, George Warren Brown School of Social Work;
Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, joint
appointment.
Clinical
practice with adolescents and families; Psychosocial intervention research in
primary care; Childrearing, child socialization, and parent-child interaction in
Hispanic families; Integrating ethnicity, race, and culture in mental health
services. (link
to a list of his mental health
projects)
Julie Wetherell, PhD
Associate Professor
in Residence, Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego.
Combined Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy for geriatric generalized anxiety, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for
chronic pain.
Affiliated Project Staff
Thyria Alvarez-Sanchez, MSW, Research Coordinator,
Center for Latino
Family Research.
Teresa Brown, MS, Depression Specialist, "CLTC
Well" Project.
Kirk A. Foster, MDiv, MSW,
Project Coordinator,
"IMPROVE"
Project.
Lu Han, Data Manager,
Child Neglect Project.
CMHSR Students working on
Research Support Resources
(paid from CMHSR)
General Office:
·
Christina (Tina) Lindstrom, MSW student, General Center Research
Assistant (RA)
·
Vontriece Valentine, MSW student, General Center RA
·
Candace Williams, MSW student, General Center RA
·
Mara Zalkin, MSW student, General Center RA
Measures, Bibliography Project,
Research Materials, Communication Unit:
Alicia Bunger, NIMH Pre-Doctoral Trainee, Federal Initiatives
Yufei Chen, MSW student, Research Materials and Measures
Collection
Akeiisa Coleman, MSW student, Bibliography Project Coordinator
Donna-Mae Knights, PhD student, Research Materials and Measures Collection
Ragini Maddipati, MSW student, Web Coordinator
Katherine Messmer, MSW student, Research Materials and Measures
Collection
Cindy Nelson, MSW Student, Bibliography Project
Karen M. Oshima, Pre-Doctoral Trainee, RNDC Evaluation, "TFCBT"
& Measures Project
Hiie Silmere, Pre-Doctoral Trainee, Measures Project
Adeline Williams, MSW
Student, Bibliography Project Co-Coordinator
RAs working on a CMHSR specific
sponsored
pilot project:
·
Melissa Hensley,
NIMH pre-doctoral trainee, “Autism” and Implementation Research
·
Madeline Lee,
NIMH pre-doctoral trainee,
“Quality Assurance”
·
Megan Petra, Doctoral Student, “Triple P”
·
Paul Sacco, NIDA pre-doctoral trainee,
“Views”
RAs working on the
RNDC:
·
Jennifer Schurer, NIMH Pre-Doctoral Trainee,
“Parenting Skills”
·
Jing Tan, Pre-Doctoral Trainee, SLAAA Assessment
·
Benjamin (Ben) Welch, MSW student,
“Views,”
RNDC SLAAA, and Implementation Research
You may contact students working for the CMHSR through the
CMHSR office or by using the Washington University directory.
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