Barbara J. Burns, Ph.D. Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine and Director of the Services Effectiveness Research Program. She is a nationally recognized mental health services researcher with over 200 publications in this area. Throughout her research, teaching, clinical practice, and policy career, Dr. Burns has studied and advocated for responsive and innovative treatment. She is currently conducting research on the dissemination of effective clinical interventions for youth with severe emotional disorders. CV Biosketch

Maureen E. Murray, LCSW is Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine and Clinical Coordinator of the Therapeutic Foster Care in a System of Care Study. She previously directed the intervention component of a research study with John Lochman, Ph.D. and Karen Wells, Ph.D. which utilized a cognitive-behavioral approach to anger management and substance abuse prevention among early adolescents. Her clinical experience includes work with populations in settings as diverse as locked adolescent treatment facilities, outpatient clinics, and a family services center. She has provided in-home therapy to children and families, conducted therapy groups in community school settings, coordinated services for clients in the community and provided individual, group and family therapy. CV

Jeffrey W. Swanson, Ph.D. is Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the UNC-CH/Duke Postdoctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services and Systems Research. Dr. Swanson is a medical sociologist (Ph.D., Yale, 1985) with expertise in adult psychiatric epidemiology and mental health services research. His research interests include violence and mental disorder, mandated community treatment, psychiatric advance directives, and effectiveness of mental health services and legal policy for adults with severe mental illness. Dr. Swanson is a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment and a Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CV Biosketch

H. Ryan Wagner, Ph.D., is Associate Research Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Wagner holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology with emphasis in biological psychology, biostatistics, and experimental design. He also has postdoctoral training in neuropharmacology and served for several years on the faculty of the Department of Pharmacology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In addition to his laboratory work on the biological bases of depression, Dr. Wagner was a consultant on experimental design and taught the Department's graduate course in statistics. More recently, Dr. Wagner has refocused his interests in psychiatric epidemiology and mental health services research. Dr. Wagner has collaborated with faculty members of the Services Effectiveness Research Program for over 10 years. CV Biosketch

Christine Wilder, M.D. Research Associate, Senior at Duke University Medical Center and the Medical Director of the Durham VA Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program. Her research interests include the clinical application of psychiatric services for severe persistent mental illness, medication and treatment adherence, decision-making by patients and physicians, and psychiatric advance directives.

Dannia G. Southerland, MSW, Ph.D. is an NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Systems and Services in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center.  Her research interests include research on mental health services for vulnerable, under-served populations, such as women heads of households on welfare and youth aging out of residential mental health treatment.  She received her MSW and PhD from the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She was previously the project director for the Therapeutic Foster Care in a System of Care Study. CV

Andrew M. Cislo, Ph.D. is a Research Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Cislo is a medical sociologist with a research background in gerontology and current interests in race/ethnic health inequalities; health services; social psychology; Latina/o sociology, and demography. Dr. Cislo is affiliated with the Center on BioBehavioral and Social Aspects of Health Disparities at Duke University.CV