Presentations from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Winter 2005 Meeting

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Operation Welcome Home: A New Hampshire Program Providing Mental Health Services for Returning Veterans; Geoffrey C. Souther, M.Ed., M.H.S.A., Director, Office of the Commissioner Department of Health and Human Services, State of New Hampshire

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Business Session – IOM Report, “Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions”; Allen Daniels, Ed.D., CEO, Alliance Behavioral Care

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SAMHSA’s CMHS Funded Harvard/NASMHPD Program for Executive Leadership in State Mental Health Administration “Findings to Date from the NIMH-CATIE Schizophrenia Trial”; Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Co-Principal Investigator of the Schizophrenia Trial of the NIMH Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) Program.

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Monday, December 12, 2005

State and Federal Experiences Related to Hurricane Katrina

Cheryll Bowers-Stephens, M.D., M.B.A., Assistant Secretary, Office of Mental Health, Department of Health and Hospitals, State of Louisiana

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Randy Hendrix, Ph.D., Director, Department of Mental Health, State of Mississippi

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John Houston, Commissioner, Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, State of Alabama

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David Wanser, Ph.D., Deputy Commissioner, Behavioral & Community Health, Department of State Health Services, State of Texas

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Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director, Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, Rockville, Maryland; Brenda Bruun, Public Health Advisor, Division of Prevention, Traumatic Stress, and Special Programs, Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, Rockville, Maryland

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Preventing Psychotic Disorders by Treating Them Before They Start: Effects on Incidence Rates; William McFarlane, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry and Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry of Maine Medical Center and Spring Harbor Hospital, Portland, Maine

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Transformation in Partnership with the Substance Abuse System; Lewis Gallant, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD), Washington, D.C.

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NAMI State Ratings; Michael Fitzpatrick, M.S.W., Executive Director, NAMI, Arlington, Virginia, Ken Duckworth, M.D., Medical Director, NAMI, Arlington, Virginia

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Transformation in Partnership with the Developmental Disabilities System; Robert M. Gettings, Executive Director, National Association of State Directors Developmental Disabilities Services, Alexandria, Virginia

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