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
October 12, 2009
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
Dave Dixon, PhD, Statistical Data
Analyst
Peter Dore, MA,
Director of Data Management
Lisa Lawrence, MSW, Research
Specialist
Erin
Leaver, BS, Administrative Coordinator
Project
Manager
Jean Ortmann, BSW, Administrative Assistant
Suchitra (Susie) Rath,
MS,
Data Manager/Analyst
Wayne Blinne, MS, Data Manager
(contract worker)
Nicole Fedoravicius, MPH,
Qualitative Research Specialist (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.
Ana Baumann das Neves, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar,
Center for Latino
Family Research, George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Parenting interventions to minority
populations; Fatherhood; Cultural adaptation and dissemination of interventions
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.
Lauren Gulbas,
PhD
Research Associate, Center for Mental Health Services
Research.
Medical
Anthropologist - Qualitative methods;
body image disorders and anorexia nervosa.
Judith (Judy) Havlicek, PhD
Postdoctoral Research
Scholar, Center for Mental Health Services Research.
Children in foster care;
Risk, resilience, and turning points; Child welfare interventions and outcomes;
Social service delivery and evaluation
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).
Patricia
(Trish) 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
Postdoctoral Research
Scholar, Center for Mental Health Services Research,
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
Research Associate, Center for Mental Health Services
Research.
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.
Lonnie Snowden,
PhD
Senior Scholar,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work;
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
Access and effectiveness of
care to minority and underserved populations.
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, 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.
CMHSR Students working on
Research Support Resources
(paid from CMHSR)
General Office Research Assistant
(RA):
·
Sherry Hogan-Smith, MSW student
·
Mary Scheuermann, MSW/MPH student,
ARC
Measures, Bibliography Project,
Research Materials:
· Yufei Chen, MSW student, Research Materials, Measures Collection *
·
Sunmee (Grace) Joo, MSW/MPH student, Bibliography Project
·
Lesley Krakauer, MSW student, Measures Collection
·
Alison Kraus, MSW student,
NSF IOP
·
Shelby Livingston, MSW student, Bibliography Project Coordinator
·
Andrea Moline, MSW student, Bibliography Project
·
Lindsay Ruhr, MSW
student, Web Coordinator, Qualitative Methods Unit, &
PBRN
RAs working on a CMHSR specific
sponsored
pilot project:
·
Alicia Bunger,
NIMH
pre-Doctoral trainee, "DIRC
Outcomes"
·
Madeline Lee,
NIMH
pre-Doctoral trainee,
“Quality Assurance”
·
Eun Ha Namkung, MSW student, "Healthy Ideas" *
·
Byron Powell,
NIMH
pre-Doctoral trainee,
"DIRC
Strategies"
·
Annaliese Calhoun, MSW Student, SSDLab
·
Margaret Hower, MSW Student, SSDLab
* Graduating and/or ending their CMHSR
work fall 2009.
You may contact students working for the CMHSR through the
CMHSR office or by using the Washington University directory.
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