Appendix D

Committee Member Biosketches

RICHARD G. FRANK (Chair, he/him) is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics emeritus at Harvard Medical School. He is a senior fellow in economic studies and director of the Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy at the Brookings Institution. Frank previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services directing the office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy. Frank’s research is focused on the economics of mental health and substance abuse care, long term care financing policy, prescription drug markets, and disability policy. He is co-author with Sherry Glied of the book Better But Not Well. Frank received his PhD in economics from Boston University and BA in economics from Bard College.

DAVID L. ALBRIGHT (he/him) is a University Distinguished Research Professor and the Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health Research at The University of Alabama. He uses behavioral health and social care expertise across Alabama, serving as principal investigator for multiple state-focused projects that strive to study and improve services, policies, and social conditions for those with mental health, substance use disorder, and trauma-related challenges. Albright is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and the National Academies of Practice in Social Work. His research examines both the health status and risk behaviors of individuals with trauma, psychiatric, or substance use history, and barriers and facilitators to their access and utilization of mental health and addiction treatment services. Albright received his MSW and PhD in social work from Florida State University.

DANIEL N. DASILVA (he/him) is an aerospace and pediatric neuropsychologist and a partner at the Morris Psychological Group in Parsippany, New Jersey. He is also a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, Graduate School of Education and he is on staff at Morristown and Overlook Medical Centers in New Jersey. In his practice, DaSilva performs neuropsychological and psychological assessments of aircrew and air traffic controllers. He serves as a neuropsychology consultant to the Federal Air Surgeon of the Federal Aviation Administration and is an external consultant for several major airlines. DaSilva has been deemed qualified by the National Transportation Safety Board to provide expert testimony in aviation neuropsychology. He is a member of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, American Psychological Association, New Jersey Psychological Association, Aerospace Medical Association, and the Aerospace Human Factors Association. He completed specialized neuropsychology training through the Veteran’s Administration in consortium with University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. He is the 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Service to Neuropsychology award from the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology. He earned a BA in psychology from Boston College, a MA in counseling psychology from University of Massachusetts at Boston, and a PhD in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

ROBYN L. HACKER (she/her) is an assistant professor in the Division of Addiction Science, Prevention and Treatment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado and the lead psychologist for The Professionals Program at the Center for Dependency Addiction and Rehabilitation where she evaluates and treats professionals in safety sensitive occupations. Her clinical work and research interests focus at the intersect of substance use disorders, trauma, and co-occurring disorders. Hacker is a licensed psychologist, licensed addiction counselor, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing consultant. She has worked with youth, adults, and families in residential, intensive outpatient, and standard outpatient settings and has extensive experience treating professional and forensic patients and educating others about mental illness and recovery. Hacker’s dissertation project focused on developing and evaluating an online mental health training for law enforcement received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from Division 18 of the American Psychological Association. She completed BS degrees in criminal justice and psychology at Loyola University Chicago, a PhD in counseling psychology at Arizona State University, and pre- and post-doctoral fellowships in forensic addiction psychology at Yale School of Medicine.

JERMAINE D. JONES (he/him) is an associate professor with the Division on Substance Use Disorders at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

As faculty, his area of focus has been to better understand how genetic factors influence the risk of developing substance use disorders, and the effectiveness of novel medications. More recently, Jones’ research has begun to focus on community-based efforts to reduce the harms associated with opioid and psychostimulant use. Jones’ research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Peter McManus Charitable Trust, and the Gray Matters Benefit of Columbia University. He has served on several National Institutes of Health scientific review committees and is currently on the Board of Directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association. Jones received his PhD in behavioral neuroscience from American University, where his research focused on understanding the abuse potential of cocaine and alcohol. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship with Columbia’s Division on Substance Use Disorders researching the pharmacological and neurobiological drivers of opioid use.

MADELINE H. MEIER (she/her) is associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Her research involves investigation of the causes, courses, and consequences of problematic substance use. Her work documenting the mental health, cognitive, brain, academic, social, economic, and physical health consequences of cannabis use is used regularly by policy makers, public interest groups, psychologists, and physicians. Meier has provided testimony to the U.S. Senate on cannabis effects on health. She is the recipient of the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science and the Enoch Gordis Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism. Meier received her PhD in psychology from the University of Missouri, completed her clinical psychology internship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and completed her postdoctoral training at Duke University.

MICHELLE N. MEYER (she/her) is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences at Geisinger, where she is also chief bioethics officer and faculty co-director of the Behavioral Insights Team, which uses principles of behavioral science to “nudge” patients, members, and clinicians to make healthy choices. Her normative and empirical research on topics including research ethics and data sharing focuses on the intersection of applied ethics and behavioral science and has been published in leading journals and popular media outlets. Meyer has served on an American Psychological Association blue ribbon commission and serves on the editorial board of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. She earned a PhD in religious studies with a focus on applied ethics from the University of Virginia and a JD from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law

school, she clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

TERRIE E. MOFFITT (she/her) has extensive expertise in the areas of lifelong aging, mental health, and longitudinal research. She is the associate director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand. She also founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), which follows a 1994 birth cohort in Britain. Moffitt is a licensed clinical psychologist, an elected fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences, and Association of Psychological Science. She is chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences. Moffitt received her PhD in psychology at the University of Southern California and completed her postdoctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.

KATHRYN E. NEWCOMER (she/her) is a professor in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University, where she has also served as the Trachtenberg School director. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and serves on the Comptroller General’s Educators’ Advisory Panel. She served as president of the American Evaluation Association and president of the Network of the Association of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration. Newcomer routinely conducts evaluations for federal and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations. She has served on six Committees of the National Academy of Sciences, published 10 books, and written many articles in esteemed journals. Newcomer received her PhD in political science at the University of Iowa.

BERNADETTE E. PHELAN (she/her) has combined executive and senior management experience encompassing the areas of public mental health and substance use services delivery systems, transportation, professional health regulation, and economic development. She has occupied varied positions with a broad range of responsibilities ranging from project director of the Behavioral Health Services Information System administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, assistant director for the Arizona Medical Board, chief of research and evaluation for the Division of Behavioral Health Services within the Arizona Department of Health Services, director of Special Studies for the non-profit National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute, and a Senior Research Project Manager at Arizona Department of Transportation. Phelan is currently a member of the National Academies of

Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Impairment in Transportation and the Committee on Women and Gender in Transportation. She is on the advisory panel for a number of national studies conducted under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program and the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program. Phelan received her PhD in economics at Keio University and her MA at the University of the Philippines.

JEFFREY SELZER (he/him) is a psychiatrist who specializes in physician and medical student mental health and in addiction treatment. In his work as Medical Director of the Committee for Physician Health, New York’s physician health program, he provides direction and oversight for a nondisciplinary pathway for New York physicians and medical students to receive mental health treatment and monitoring. In his work for Northwell Health, he provides direct mental health care to physicians and medical students in the Northwell system. His research experience includes membership in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN) and service to the CTN as a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Research Utilization Committee. Selzer is chair of the Public Policy Committee for the American Society of Addiction Medicine and chair of the Addiction Psychiatry Committee for the New York State Psychiatric Association. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles and is board certified in psychiatry and in addiction medicine.

MO WANG (he/him) is the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair and the associate dean for Research at the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. He is also the chair of the Management Department and the director of Human Resource Research Center at University of Florida and is currently serving on the President-track for Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology. He specializes in research areas of occupational health psychology and human resource management, especially on alcohol use at workplace. He received numerous research awards for his research in these areas. He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea; he is also a fellow of Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Wang was the president of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology. Wang received his PhD from Bowling Green State University.

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