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

Marvin Swartz, M.D. is Professor and Head, Division of Social and Community Psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Services Effectiveness Research Program. His research interests include Mental Health Services for Persons with Schizophrenia and Severe Mental Illness, Law and Psychiatry, Mandated Community Treatment, Outpatient Commitment, and Psychiatric Advance Directives. Dr. Swanson is a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment and is CO-PI of the NIMH Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) for Schizophrenia, and Director of the Clinical and Functional Outcomes Assessment Unit within the CATIE. 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