Meet the Authors

Curtis Adams, MD

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Sarah E. Baker, MD, MA

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Margie Balfour, MD

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Xinlin Chen, MD

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Dianna Dragatsi, MD

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Jacqueline Maus Feldman, MD

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Michael Flaum, MD

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Ann Hackman, MD

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Stephanie Le Melle MD, MS

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Judge Steve Leifman

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Kenneth Minkoff, MD

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Mark R. Munetz, MD

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Keris Jän Myrick, MBA, MS

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Fred Osher, MD

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Paula Panzer, MD

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Joseph Parks, MD

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John Santopietro, MD

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Samuel Jackson, MD

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Matthew L. Goldman, MD, MS

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Matthew L. Goldman, MD, MS

Dr. Goldman is community psychiatrist, he has been a Medical Director for county crisis services with oversight of crisis call center and mobile crisis teams, and he is a grant-funded mental health services researcher studying best practices in behavioral health crisis response. He serves on the board of the American Association of Community Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Advocacy and Government Relations, the Expanding First Response Commission for the Council of State Governments Justice Center, and the National Council for Behavioral Health’s Medical Director’s Institute where he co-chairs a committee on crisis services.

Samuel Jackson, MD

Samuel Jackson, M.D. is an adult psychiatry resident at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn New York. During residency, he has been awarded the American Psychiatric Association Public Psychiatry fellowship as well as the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) fellowship for which he serves on the Community and Psychiatry Committee.

Curtis Adams, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is an ACT psychiatrist in Baltimore who currently works in a psychiatric emergency room part-time and supervises another psychiatric emergency room part-time.

Sarah E. Baker, MD, MA

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She serves on both local and state workgroups exploring crisis diversion and other models of care for justice involved patients.

Margie Balfour, MD

Psychiatrist and national leader in quality improvement and behavioral health crisis services. She is the Chief of Quality and Clinical Innovation at Connections Health Solutions, which provides 24/7 access to mental health and substance use care throughout Arizona, and is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. Dr. Balfour was named the Doctor of the Year by the National Council for Behavioral Health for her work at the Crisis Response Center in Tucson and received the Tucson Police Department’s medal of honor for her efforts to help law enforcement better serve the mentally ill population.

Xinlin Chen, MD

Dianna Dragatsi, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and Attending at Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, was Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Room at New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as an attending in an emergency room at an upstate New York hospital (Garnet Health). She has published about delivery of behavioral health care in emergency room settings, consulted with the Council of State Governments on crisis services in different states as well taught psychiatric residents about emergency psychiatry and de-escalation practices.

Jacqueline Maus Feldman, MD

Professor Emerita, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior Director of Psychiatric Services (Duke), Vice-Chair for Clinical Services (over Psych ER) and Chair, Task Force on Crisis Services (NAMI AL).

Michael Flaum, MD

President, American Association for Community Psychiatry and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa has focused on a variety of strategies to expand the array of behavioral health services in a manner that optimizes quality and access to care, including the development of crisis services, and has been actively involved in the development of Johnson County (Iowa) Crisis Center.

Ann Hackman, MD

Division Director Community Psychiatry University of Maryland School of Medicine, Medical Director Programs of Assertive Community Treatment. National Council for Behavioral Health 209.

Stephanie Le Melle MD, MS

Director of Public Psychiatry Education at Columbia Univ Department of Psychiatry/ New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr Le Melle was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Mandated Outpatient Treatment, a consultant to SAMHSA and to various other national, state and local organizations.

Judge Steve Leifman

Associate Administrative Judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Chair of the Steering Committee on Problem Solving Courts for the Supreme Court of Florida, a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Voluntary Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami School of Medicine, has worked to improve the crisis response system in Miami-Dade and around the United States to keep people with mental illnesses out of the criminal justice system.

Kenneth Minkoff, MD

Vice President of ZiaPartners, Inc, in Tucson AZ, Part-Time Asst Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard, has operated numerous MH and SUD crisis services and systems since 1976, and currently provides crisis system consultation in multiple states.

Mark R. Munetz, MD

Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Northeast Ohio Medical University, since 2020 after serving as Chair of Psychiatry from 2007-2019. He is the co-developer of the Sequential Intercept Model, a framework to address the over-representation of people with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders in the criminal justice system.

Keris Jän Myrick, MBA, MS

Co Director of the Mental Heath Strategic Impact Initiative (S2i) with over 15 years of experience in mental health services innovation, transformation and peer workforce development at federal, national and local levels which includes integration of peer workforce in policy program and practice work in crisis systems and the continuum of care.

Fred Osher, MD

Director of Community Psychiatry at the University of Maryland who has overseen the development of community urgent care models and the continua of crisis services for individuals with serious mental illnesses. More recently he consults on effective law enforcement/behavioral health systems crisis response.

Paula Panzer, MD

has contributed for decades to crisis service provision in New York City as a member of a mobile crisis team and as a CBHO Medical Director and systems leader of services for adults, children and families throughout the city.

Joseph Parks, MD

Medical Director and Vice President for Practice Improvement at the National Council for Behavioral Health. He Is former Medicaid Director and former DMH Medical Director for the state of Missouri and is also a Distinguished Professor of Science at Missouri Institute for Mental Health, University of Missouri St. Louis.

John Santopietro, MD

Physician-in-Chief of the Behavioral Health Network at Hartford HealthCare as well as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UCONN School ofMedicine.

Curtis Adams, MD

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Sarah E. Baker, MD, MA

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Margie Balfour, MD

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Xinlin Chen, MD

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Dianna Dragatsi, MD

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Jacqueline Maus Feldman, MD

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Michael Flaum, MD

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Ann Hackman, MD

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Stephanie Le Melle MD, MS

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Judge Steve Leifman

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Kenneth Minkoff, MD

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Mark R. Munetz, MD

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Keris Jän Myrick, MBA, MS

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Fred Osher, MD

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Paula Panzer, MD

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Joseph Parks, MD

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John Santopietro, MD

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Samuel Jackson, MD

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Matthew L. Goldman, MD, MS

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