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Maria
Monroe-DeVita, Ph.D.
Dr. Monroe-DeVita is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Monroe-DeVita has extensive experience conducting trainings, mental health services and implementation research on assertive community treatment (ACT) for people with serious mental illness (SMI) for coordinated specialty care (CSC) programs and for individuals and families experiencing early psychosis. She has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on numerous state-, federal-, and foundation-funded grants focused on dissemination, implementation, and evaluation of these models of care. Dr. Monroe-DeVita also serves as the Co-Director of the SPIRIT (Supporting Psychosis Innovation through Research, Implementation and Training) lab at the University of Washington and is core faculty for the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (NW-MHTTC).
Director
Associate Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
Oladunni Oluwoye, Ph.D.
Executive Member
Assistant Professor
Washington State University
Dr. Oluwoye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of community and Behavioral Health in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. Dr. Oluwoye's research interests have focused on increasing racial health equity in addiction and mental health treatment with an emphasis on improving access to care and treatment delivery in community-based settings. As a health services researcher her work seeks to improve the pathways to mental health services for racially and ethnically diverse families and early intervention programs for psychosis. Much of this work is guided by the use of frameworks centered on culturally informed intervention development or adaptation combined with implementation science methodologies. Dr. Oluwoye has multiple federally funded grants supporting access to care for racially and ethnically underserved populations and social determinants of health for mental health service placement. Dr. Oluwoye is a certified health education specialist and has extensive experience in the prevention of substance use among racially and ethnically diverse groups, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods data collection and analysis, and program development and evaluation.
Lydia
Chwastiak, M.D, M.P.H.
Executive Member
Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Chwastiak is Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the University of Washington School of Medicine and a board-certified psychiatrist and internist. For the past 18 years, her research has focused on the complex intersection of chronic medical illness and serious mental illness. She has led or collaborated on several federally-funded projects to adapt and implement effective integrated care models in diverse settings, including community mental health centers.
Rebecca (Becky) Daughtry graduated from the University of Utah with a Masters in Social Work and has been a licensed independent clinical social worker in the state of Washington for over 20 years. Her experience includes providing clinical and administrative services in a variety of settings including outpatient community mental health, crisis response, children's long term inpatient hospitalization, rural social work practice, child welfare, adoption and permanency, and is an approved clinical supervisor for licensure candidates. Becky is now with the Washington Health Care Authority working to implement legislation mandating coordinated specialty care for those affected by first episode psychosis (FEP) throughout the state of Washington. Becky has experience launching and directing a successful FEP site in Washington, which included screening and assessment for FEP, Family psychoeducation and clinical supervision for professionals working with people affected by FEP.
Rebecca
Daughtry, LICSW, CMHS
Executive Member
FEP Program Director
Washington Health Care Authority
Executive Member
Assistant Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
Sarah
Kopelovich, Ph.D.
Sarah Kopelovich is an Assistant Professor and holds a Professorship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She has served as the Principal Investigator on foundation-, state-, and federally-funded projects related to implementation of evidence-based treatments for psychosis. She oversees the Northwest CBTp Network, is a founding member and communications officer for the North American CBTp Network, and is core faculty for the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center.
Cammie
Perretta, MSW, LICSW
Member
New Journeys Program Director Trainer
University of Washington School of Medicine
Cammie
Perretta, MA
Member
Research Coordinator
University of Washington School of Medicine
Akansha Vaswani-Bye, Ph.D.
Member
Assistant Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine