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Nancy Grote, PhD
Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. Grote is Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work and also an Adjunct Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  She received her B.A. from Smith College, her MSW from the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed a 3-year fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and a 2-year Junior Faculty Scholar fellowship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

David Harrison, MD, PhD
Acting Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. Harrison is an acting assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He currently works as a consulting psychiatrist for the Mental Health Integrative Program (MHIP), a statewide program for improving mental health care in the primary care setting and also works as an attending psychiatrist on the UW Medical Center consult‐liaison and inpatient psychiatry services. In his capacity as a MHIP consulting psychiatrist, Dr. Harrison has developed a wide variety of educational materials and presentations for care coordinators and primary care providers, and has been intimately involved in quality improvement initiatives.

Dr. Harrison has a deep and abiding interest in improving the integration of spiritual care into health care and to this end participated in chaplaincy training during his fellowship in consult‐liaison psychiatry at the University of Washington and worked a Templeton Foundation visiting scholar at the HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York from September 2008 through January 2010. At the HealthCare Chaplaincy, Dr. Harrison developed a comprehensive mental health curriculum for chaplains to better educate chaplains and other spiritual care providers about common psychiatric problems encountered in the hospital and hospice settings. Dr. Harrison is currently involved in quality improvement/research projects at the University of Washington examining the impact of religious distress/struggle on patient outcomes in inpatient psychiatry patients and general oncology outpatients.

Dr. Harrison received his MD and PhD (in nutrition) from the University of California at Davis. He completed a residency in psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University and a fellowship in consult-liaison psychiatry at the University of Washington. Dr. Harrison has also been trained as a medical acupuncturist, massage therapist, and Yoga instructor.

Rita Haverkamp, MSN, PMHCNS-BC, CNS
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, San Diego, CA

Ms. Haverkamp is a psychiatric nurse clinical specialist. She has her masters’ degree in psychiatric nursing from the University of Cincinnati. She has been ANA certified as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse/ clinical specialist since 1985. She has worked for Kaiser Permanente for the last 21 years as an outpatient therapist. She has previous experience as an inpatient head nurse and a manager for multiple psychiatric units. She was a depression specialist in the original IMPACT depression care research. The last 11 years she has been providing IMPACT depression care within her role at Kaiser. She currently does consulting with the IMPACT Implementation Center. She is a frequent speaker presenting on the IMPACT model, problem solving treatment and cognitive therapy. She provides PST-PC supervision to depression care managers.

Lori Higa, RN
Visiting Nurse, Home Health & Hospice, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA

Ms. Higa is a home health and hospice nurse for Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.  She received her Bachelor’s in nursing from Seattle University.  She started community mental health nursing, 14 years ago, working with deaf mentally ill adolescents and adults, adjudicated youth, and school-based mental health programs at Seattle Mental Health.  In a slight detour, she coordinated a wound healing study looking at effectiveness of radiant heat to treat deep pressure ulcers at the University of Washington Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems.  She has worked as a care manager providing behavioral activation and problem-solving therapy for three different research studies following the original IMPACT study.  Those studies were Pathways, a research study treating diabetic patients with depression, and CARE study, providing education and treatment options for adolescents with depress, and IMPACT-DP pilot study, treating older patients with arthritis pain and depression.  She uses behavioral activation techniques through an obsessive-compulsive relationship to playing beach volleyball.

Nancy Jaeckels
Vice President, Member Relations and Strategic Initiatives, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, Bloomington, MN

Nancy Jaeckels is the Vice President for Member Relations and Strategic Initiatives at ICSI, a non-profit quality improvement organization that collaborates with its 60 medical group and hospital members, plus health plans, employers, patients and other stakeholders, to provide patients with higher quality and more affordable health care. Ms. Jaeckels currently leads ICSI's strategic initiatives for DIAMOND, a depression care management program that has been implemented in 83 primary care sites and the Medical Home/Health Care Home model. Ms. Jaeckels has over 20 years experience in direct patient care, health care administration, and quality and safety improvement in outpatient, inpatient and long-term care facilities. Ms. Jaeckels is a certified Professional in Healthcare Quality and has served two terms as the President of the Minnesota Healthcare Quality Professionals.

Wayne Katon, MD
Professor and Vice Chair, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. Katon, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Health Services and Psychiatric Epidemiology, and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington Medical School. He is Director of a NIMH-funded National Research Service Award Primary Care Fellowship that has successfully trained psychiatrists and primary care physicians for academic leadership positions. Dr. Katon is internationally renowned for his research on the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care, the relationship of psychiatric disorders to medically unexplained symptoms such as headache and fatigue, and the impact of depression and anxiety on patients with chronic medical illness. In recent years, his research has focused on developing innovative models of integrating mental health professionals and other allied health personnel into primary care to improve the care of patients with major depression and panic disorder. Dr. Katon has been awarded the American Academy of Family Practice Award for Excellence in Teaching in Primary Care numerous times. He also has been awarded the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Research Award (1993) and the American Psychiatric Association Senior Scholar Health Services Research Award (1999).  He is Editor-in-Chief of General Hospital Psychiatry. Dr. Katon has written over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, as well as Panic Disorder in the Medical Setting, a book for primary care physicians. In addition, Dr. Katon and his research team have written a self-help book for depressed patients titled Depression: Self-Care Companion for Better Living.

Virna Little, PsyD, LCSW-R, SAP
Consultant and Senior Trainer, IMPACT Implementation Center, Seattle, WA

Ms. Little is responsible for the administration of  150 staff  and delivery of behavioral health, community and grant funded programs in a community health center network throughout New York City and New York States Hudson Valley Region.  Ms. Little is also responsible for many of the services the organization provides to the uninsured.

Ms. Little has extensive experience providing behavioral health services in healthcare settings as well as developing and operating community programs. Ms. Little has knowledge of special populations such as HIV/AIDS, homeless and substance abuse and the chronically medically and mentally ill. Ms. Little has worked both nationally and internationally helping organizations develop integrated models of care. Ms. Little is a member of the consulting team for Project IMPACT providing assistance to organizations and communities seeking to implement the IMPACT model of care. Ms. Little has assisted  in the development of a suboxone treatment programs and provided assistance for organizations wishing to develop a suboxone program.

Before joining the Institute, Ms. Little provided social services at the Department of Corrections and was a Domestic Violence Coordinator chosen by the Mayor’s office to promote family violence identification and prevention in New York City and Health and Hospital Corporation. Ms. Little is certified in rational emotive behavioral therapy and trained in other modalities such as problem solving and cognitive therapy. Ms. Little has received advanced training in working with trauma survivors, disaster mental health and critical incident debriefing. Ms. Little is a Department of Transportation and federally certified Substance Abuse Professional and a certified New York State Mandated Reporter child abuse trainer.

Ms. Little has her doctoral degree in psychology along with a masters in social work and bachelors degree in both psychology and social work. Ms. Little has received awards for her work in behavioral health including the Eleanor Clarke award for innovative programs in healthcare (2004) and the National Association of Social Workers Image award (2006). Ms. Little is a member of and on the national committee of the Society for Social Work Leaders in Healthcare, a member of the National Association of Social Workers , the Community Health Care Association of New York State, the American Play Therapy Association , The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Providers. Presently Ms. Little services on the board of the Association of Clinicians for Underserved, New York Association for Play Therapy and the Reproductive Health Access Project.

Barbara Mauer, MSW CMC
President and Managing Consultant, MCPP Healthcare Consulting, Seattle, WA

Ms. Mauer, MSW CMC is a Managing Consultant for MCPP Healthcare Consulting in Seattle, WA. She has twenty years of consulting experience focused on strategic planning, program design, performance management and quality management processes. She is a co-author of How to Thrive in Managed Behavioral Healthcare and The Primary Care Performance Management System as well as articles discussing organizational design, performance management, public health performance standards and the integration of primary care and behavioral healthcare.

She is nationally active in writing, training and consulting on ways to better integrate primary healthcare services with mental health and substance abuse services, serving as the senior consultant for the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare on this subject. She has been the project manager for the Council’s Primary Care-Mental Health Learning Collaborative, with 16 site teams, each comprised of a mental health center and a federally qualified health center.

Prior to her consulting practice, Ms. Mauer was a senior administrator at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and headed the public mental health/substance abuse/developmental disabilities system for King County, serving the greater Seattle area.

Diane Powers, MA
Program Manager, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Ms. Powers manages the AIMS Center (Advancing Integrated Mental health Solutions) at the University of Washington. The AIMS Center is part of the UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and provides research, training, and technical assistance focused on evidence-based, integrated mental health care programs. IMPACT is one of the programs that is part of the AIMS Center. Ms. Powers has over eighteen years experience as manager of a wide range of public health and health services research projects and programs. She also has more than eight years experience providing mental health services in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Ms. Powers received a BA in Psychology and English Literature from Gonzaga University and a master’s degree in Psychology from Seattle University.

Rachel Quintanilla, LMSW
Care Manager, Project Vida Health Center, El Paso, TX

Ms. Quintanilla received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Texas at El Paso and Masters in Social Work from New Mexico State University.  She is currently the Care Manager for Project Vida Health Center in collaboration with Family Service of El Paso and EPMHMR and is a consultant with the IMPACT Implementation Center.  Ms. Quintanilla formerly worked with Family Service of El Paso as a psychotherapist, conducting psychosocial assessments for CPS involved families and providing therapy to individuals, couples, families, and children, most of which were crime victims. Because of her extensive experience with families under stress, she has been called on to provide crisis intervention, critical incident debriefing, and grief counseling within her local community and was sent to Northern Virginia to work with “Project Resilience” after the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. Ms. Quintanilla continues her involvement in doing community awareness and education on social issues that threaten the well-being of individuals and families in her community. 

Laura Richardson, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of Washington Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and Investigator, Center for Child Health, Behavior & Development, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA

Dr. Richardson is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the University of Washington and an Investigator at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development. Dr. Richardson’s research focuses on integrating mental health care into primary care settings to improve outcomes for adolescents and on better understanding associations between mental and physical health during adolescence. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and an Affiliate Investigator at the Center for Health Studies at Group Health Cooperative. Dr. Richardson’s current research focuses on developing screening protocols for depression and adaptation of collaborative care for depressed adolescents in primary care settings.

Dr. Richardson received her MD from the University of Michigan and her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Washington.  She completed fellowships in Adolescent Medicine and General Pediatrics at the University of Washington.

Stephen Thielke, MD, MSPH, MA
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, and
Investigator, Geriatric Research, Education & Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA

Dr. Thielke is an Acting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington, and an investigator at the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center of the Puget Sound VA Health Care System. He grew up in Seattle, and attended the University of Washington for medical school, residency in psychiatry, fellowship in geriatric psychiatry, and a fellowship in Geriatric Mental Health Services Research. He worked as a consulting psychiatrist on the
GA-U Mental Health Pilot Program (a broad community implementation of IMPACT) before starting at the VA.  He conducts research about various topics, including the treatment of mental health conditions in primary care, the effects of pain on the lives and health of older adults, population modeling of depression and illness, and technological interventions to sustain independence. He enjoys spending time with his family, and tearing down things in his house well in advance of fixing them up.

Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA
Professor and Vice Chair, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. Unützer is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and health services researcher. His work focuses on innovative models that integrate mental health and general medical services and on translating research on evidence-based behavioral health interventions into effective clinical and public health practice. He has over 200 scientific publications and is the recipient of numerous federal and foundation grants and awards for his research to improve the health and mental health of populations through patient-centered integrated mental health services.

Dr. Unützer is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Chief of Psychiatric Services at the UW Medical Center. He also holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Health Services at the UW School of Public Health and Affiliate Investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, WA.

Dr. Unützer directs the AIMS Center dedicated to ‘Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions’ and the IMPACT Program which has supported national and international testing and implementation of an evidence based program for depression care. IMPACT has been shown in randomized controlled trials to double the effectiveness of usual care for depression while lowering long-term health care costs. In recent years, Dr. Unützer’s work has focused on developing and supporting local, regional, and state-wide partnerships that improve access to evidence-based care through workforce development and capacity building in primary and behavioral health care (http://integratedcare-nw.org).

Dr. Unützer has served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the World Health Organization and as an advisor to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He works with national and international organizations dedicated to improving behavioral health care for diverse populations. His awards include the Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars Award in Aging Research from the American Foundation for Aging Research, the Klerman Junior Investigator Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the Research Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Oken Fellowship from the American Psychosomatic Society.

Dr. Unützer trained in Public Policy (MA, University of Chicago), Medicine (MD, Vanderbilt University) and Public Health (MPH, University of Washington). He completed fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA and in Primary Care Psychiatry / Health Services Research at the University of Washington.

Steven Vannoy, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Steven Vannoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Vannoy has received clinical training and conducted outcome research in a wide range of psychotherapy modalities. These modalities include cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, group-based psychotherapy, family therapy for post partum depression, and problem solving therapy in primary care. Dr. Vannoy’s current research interests focus on delivery of effective prevention and treatment of depression and suicide in late-life in community settings. Dr. Vannoy received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and performed his internship in the Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy program at the University of Washington.