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L. Worth Bolton, MSW, LCAS
 L. Worth Bolton, MSW, LCAS, is currently working with the Behavioral Health Care Resource Program in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Clinical Instructor/Educational Specialist at the graduate level. Mr. Bolton coordinated and currently teaches two of the four courses in the Certificate in Substance Abuse Studies Program. He chaired and at present is a board member of the North Carolina Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Studies and the North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Practice Board. Additionally, Worth has chaired the Steering Committee of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Practice Section of the National Association of Social Workers. Prior to accepting his position at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Bolton accumulated over 25 years of work experience in behavioral health services while serving both adults and adolescents in a wide variety of settings. He has provided training, consultation, and technical assistance to businesses/ industries, social service agencies, and the military. Current areas of interest and study are assessment and treatment planning for the dually diagnosed, clinical services to addicted offenders, clinician credentialing in addictions, and developing substance abuse services in mental health reform. Worth is certified in clinical supervision and addiction services.
Sergeant First Class Kurtis K. Cherry
Sergeant First Class Kurtis K. Cherry entered Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in 1987. After Advanced Individual Training at Fort Lee, Virginia and Basic Airborne Training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. Sergeant First Class Cherry attended Advanced Individual Training for Psychiatric Specialist Training (91F) at Fort Sam Houston, Texas in 1990. His military education includes the AMEDD Advanced Non Commissioned Officer Course, AMEDD Basic Non Commissioned Officer Course, Primary Leadership Development Course, Group and Individual Alcohol Rehabilitation Counseling Courses, Basic Airborne Course, and Air Assault Course. His other assignments include Inpatient Ward Psychiatric Specialist at 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany; Inpatient Psychiatric Ward Supervisor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC; Addictions Treatment Facility, Intake Coordinator, at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Kaserslautern, Germany; Inpatient Psychiatric Ward Supervisor at Womack Army Medical Center in Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Neurological Psychiatric Ward Supervisor at 28th Combat Support Hospital in Fort Bragg; and Detachment Sergeant at 1493rd Medical Detachment (Combat Stress Control) in Durham, North Carolina. Sergeant First Class Cherry’s deployments include Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2003 for 9 months and Iraq in 2004 for 12 months.
Edward O. Crandell, Ph.D.
Colonel, Medical Service Corps, United States Army
Colonel Edward O. Crandell serves as the Chief, Department of Behavioral Health, Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Colonel Crandell has served in a variety of assignments in the Army Medical Department. His initial assignment was as the Chief, Psychology Service, Noble Army Community Hospital, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Colonel Crandell was then assigned to the 2nd Field Hospital, Bremerhaven, Germany, where he served as the Chief, Psychology Service. After completing the Army Medical Department Officer Advanced Course, Colonel Crandell was assigned as the Chief, Clinical Psychology Service, Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii. Colonel Crandell's subsequent assignments included the Army Medical Service Corps Branch, U.S. Army Personnel Command, Alexandria, Virginia and Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia. Prior to assuming his present duties, Colonel Crandell was assigned to the Army Medical Department Center and School as the Chief, Mental Health Specialist Branch and the Chief, Department of Preventive Health Services. From October, 1997 to July 2004, Colonel Crandell was the Psychology Consultant to the Army Surgeon General.
Wei Li Fang, Ph.D.
 Wei Li Fang, Ph.D., currently serves as Director for Research and Development and Director for the Center for the Education on Evidence-Based Practices at the Governor’s Institute on Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Inc. In addition, Dr. Fang also serves as the evaluator for the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center, is the Project Director for the Mental Health Systems Transformation Project, is the Project Director for Project APT (Adopting prevention and Treatment Science-based Practices), and provides support to the North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative. From 1981 to 1999, she worked at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine as a program developer, evaluator, and grant writer. Since 1981, she has been involved in numerous national and local evaluation studies. Since 1988, her primary focus has been on behavioral health. Substance abuse related projects have included the following: the development of model programs and curricula in substance abuse for medical students, residents, and faculty (NIAAA/ NIDA and Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Trust); faculty development for primary care physicians (NIAAA/NIDA/OSAP); model demonstration programs in educating college students about substance abuse (US Department of Education); teaching college athletes about substance abuse (NCAA); a community partnership demonstration grant in Lynchburg, Virginia (CSAP); the evaluation of a CSAT publication, TAP 21 (Mid-Atlantic ATTC), and a qualitative study to identify factors related to relapse for women who quit smoking due to pregnancy (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).
Mrs. Lil W. Ingram
 A Citizen-Soldier spouse for over 26 years, Mrs. Lil Ingram is an avid advocate for National Guard families. She was the Family Readiness Group Leader for her husband’s unit during their deployment to Bosnia for SFOR2. During that time, she established “My Sister’s Closet”, a program that partnered with a local shelter for battered women. She received the NC National Guard Civilian Meritorious Service Medal for her work with the Family Readiness Program. Working closely with the Director of NCNG Family Programs, she is actively involved with Operation Kids on Guard, a camp for children of deployed North Carolina National Guardsmen. She has also worked with the National Military Family Association to host in North Carolina, Operation Purple, a camp for military children of all Service components who have a deployed parent. She completed the Army Family Team Building Course at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA and the Guard Family Team Building Instructor Trainer Course. Mrs. Ingram is a board member of the USO of NC – Raleigh Durham and serves on the National Advisory Council for The Citizen-Soldier Support Program at The University of North Carolina.
Mrs. Ingram is a native of Martinsville, Virginia and a graduate of Carlisle School. After attending Mary Washington University, she moved to North Carolina where she later taught High School English and first year Latin at Lawrence Academy.
She has been actively involved in her community serving as a substitute teacher, past President of the Parent Teachers Association, past President of the Junior Woman’s Club of Williamston, and as an organizer and volunteer for Relay for Life and Crop Walk. She is a member of The First Christian Church where she taught Sunday School, Bible School, and assisted the Director of the Youth Choir.
Mrs. Ingram and her husband, Major General William E. Ingram, Jr. have three sons and a daughter-in-law: Turner, Walker, Matt and Ivy. They also have one granddaughter, Maren Rose Ingram.
Everett R. Jones, M.D.
 Everett R. Jones, Jr., M.D.. is a Senior Executive Consultant to the Clinical Core of the VISN 6 MIRECC as well as the Co-Director of the Evaluation Core. Dr. Jones’s responsibilities center on providing leadership in the synthesis of performance data, patient functional data, patient clinical data, and patient satisfaction data into evidence-based information that compels action at the frontline of health care in VHA. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Jones most recently served as the Clinical Director of the Performance Analysis Center for Excellence in the Office of Quality and Performance. He was also the inaugural Clinical Director of the Mental Health Service Line in the Mid-Atlantic Network. .Throughout his 25 years of federal service, Dr. Jones has been an active champion of quality improvement He served as the inaugural Chair of the Adoption and Adaptation Sub-Group of the National Advisory Council for Clinical Practice Guidelines and provided key leadership in the development of the MDD Clinical Practice Guideline and the Psychoses CPG. His curriculum vitae list numerous publications, invited lectures and presentations along with membership in professional societies. Dr. Jones is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology with Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Chaplain (CPT) Steven King
North Carolina Army National Guard
Chaplain Steven King currently serves as the first full-time Support Chaplain for the North Carolina Army National Guard in Raleigh. His primary duty is to serve the spiritual and emotional needs of the 12,000 Army and Air National Guard soldiers and airmen throughout the state along with their families. He holds a B.S. degree in Pastoral Ministry and Christian Education from United Wesleyan College, Allentown, Pennsylvania and a Masters of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky. He is ordained in The Wesleyan Church and has pastored churches in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina for over 13 years. He joined the Army Reserves as a medic in 1982, and then became a chaplain assistant for nine years, rising to the enlisted rank as a Staff Sergeant, before entering the Chaplain Candidate Program in 1997 while in seminary. He has served as a chaplain since 2000, beginning in the Kentucky Army National Guard, then transferring to North Carolina in 2002. He was then deployed to Iraq with the 30th Brigade Combat Team, Clinton, North Carolina from February 2004- December 2004 while serving as the battalion chaplain for the 105th Engineer Battalion. He then began his current assignment in October, 2005. He is certified as an instructor in PREP (Marriage Enrichment), ASIST certified in Suicide intervention, Crisis Intervention Stress Management certified and has attended several other military schools and has earned 16 various military awards and decorations.
Harold S. Kudler , M.D.
 Dr. Harold Kudler joined the Duke University faculty in 1984 and is Associate Clinical Professor in its Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Having served as Assistant Chief of Psychiatry at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center for a number of years, Dr. Kudler is now Mental Health Coordinator for Veterans Integrated Service Network, Number 6. In this capacity, he manages the Mental Health Service Line for eight VA Medical Centers and their outlying facilities (distributed across North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia) and represents the Network's mental health programs at local and national levels. Dr. Kudler is co-founder of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center of North Carolina. He has served as Interim Director of Residency Training and as Chair of the Residency Curriculum Committee, and is a member of the Residency Executive Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center. He served as long-standing member of the Executive Committee of the Medical School Admissions Committee at Duke. Dr. Kudler's expertise in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) stems from clinical and research work with combat veterans, ex-prisoners of war, survivors of other traumatic events, and their families. He has reported on many aspects of PTSD including its diagnosis, its biological and psychological characteristics, and its treatment. Dr. Kudler was the founding Chairperson of the PTSD Practice Guidelines Task Force of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and was first author of that Task Force’s Treatment Guideline for the Psychodynamic Treatment of PTSD. From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Kudler co-chaired the Special Committee on PTSD for the VA Undersecretary for Veterans Affairs’. This committee, which reports directly to a joint committee of the House and Senate on Veterans Affairs, is charged with assessing and guiding the VA’s national continuum of PTSD care, education, research, and benefits.
Michael S. Lancaster, M.D.
 Michael Lancaster, M.D. currently serves as the Chief of Clinical Policy Management of the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. His responsibilities and duties as Chief of Clinical Policy Management include, but are not limited to, providing key leadership in articulating the state’s vision of excellent clinical care including addiction medicine and in conjunction with habilitation services and other natural supports. He serves as focal point for reviewing and analyzing quality of care as practiced in the community system and state operated facilities and from national examples of best practice. Dr. Lancaster assists in the development of the continuum of care for MH/DD/SAS, integration of inpatient and community services, and the relationship between public, private and academic sectors. Dr. Lancaster has maintained an active private practice as a board certified adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist in Raleigh, NC. His history of professional work experiences range from being employed as the Regional Medical Director of the MBHO ValueOptions office to the Clinical Director of Child and Adolescent Services of Holly Hill Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital.
James Martin, Ph.D., BCD
Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired)
 James (Jim) Martin, Ph.D., BCD, currently serves as an Associate Professor in the graduate department of the School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Director for the National Demonstration Program for Citizen Soldier Support at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Martin is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. As a tenured associate professor, his scholarship and public service focus is on individual, family, and community well-being. His research involves military and veteran populations and emphasizes family and community issues. A retired Army Colonel, Dr. Martin’s 26-year career in the Army Medical Department included clinical, research, as well as senior management (command) and policy assignments. He was the senior Social Work Officer in the Persian Gulf Theater of Operations during the first Gulf War. He is the senior editor of The Gulf War and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide (Praeger, 1996) and The Military Family: A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers (Praeger, 2000). He is the senior author of a 2004 National Council on Family Relations policy statement on community support for military families. Dr. Martin is an elected member of the Board of Directors of American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work and a founding board member of the National Center for Clinical Social Work.
Monica C. Mellon
Captain, United States Marine Corps
Assuming her present rank in May 2002, Captain Monica Mellon reported to 2d Supply Battalion, 2d Force Service Support Group, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and assumed the duties of Battalion Adjutant. In February 2003, Captain Mellon deployed with 2d Supply Battalion to Camp Fox, Kuwait in support of OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM where she served as the Battalion Adjutant. In October 2003, Captain Mellon took command of Headquarters and Service Company, 2d Supply Battalion, and served as both Company Commander and Battalion Adjutant until August 2004. Reassigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 2, 2d Force Service Support Group, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Captain Mellon assumed the duties of Battalion Adjutant. In February 2005, Captain Mellon deployed with Combat Logistics Battalion 2 to Al Asad, Iraq in support of OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM. In May 2005, Captain Mellon assumed the duties of Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, 2d Force Service Support Group, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina until her transfer to the Fleet Marine Corps Reserves in October 2005. In January 2006, Captain Mellon returned to active duty to assume the duties of National Agency Liaison Officer, Injured Support Section, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina until reassignment to her current duties as the Family Readiness Officer, II Marine Expeditionary Force in May 2006.
Carmen Hooker Odom
 Governor Mike Easley appointed Carmen Hooker Odom to her second term as Secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services in January. Since her original appointment in February 2001, Hooker Odom has worked tirelessly on behalf of health and human services issues, including mental health reform and Medicaid management.
She is a former Massachusetts lawmaker and health care lobbyist and has spent her professional life working in health and human services.
Hooker Odom, adopted daughter of North Carolina, describes herself as a "passionate Tar Heel" devoted to improving the lives of all North Carolinians. As DHHS secretary, she leads one of the state’s largest agencies, with more than 16,000 employees. DHHS deals with issues as diverse as early childhood education, senior prescription assistance and disease investigation.
Prior to her appointment, she served as Vice President of Government Relations for Quintiles Transnational Corporation in Research Triangle Park. Hooker Odom served as the Group Vice President for Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS). She is also an Adjunct Professor at the UNC School of Public Health.
From 1995 to 1996, Hooker Odom worked as a Project Officer for the Milbank Memorial Fund, a New York-based foundation that conducts non-partisan analysis, study and research on significant issues in health policy.
Prior to moving to North Carolina in 1995 when her late husband Michael Hooker became Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill, Hooker Odom served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for nearly 11 years. While in the legislature, Hooker Odom advocated for quality health care services for families. She was the primary legislative author of both the 1991 Massachusetts comprehensive health reform legislation and the Children's Medical Security Plan, which targeted young children not covered by medical insurance.
She received a bachelor's degree in sociology and political science from Springfield College and a master's degree in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
She is married to former state Senator Fountain Odom, an attorney, tree farmer, and apiarist. Between them, they have three daughters, three sons and eleven grandchildren.
Flo Stein, MPH
 Flo Stein currently serves as the Chief of Community Policy Management of the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Stein currently has responsibility for the development of community capacity as the state undertakes a legislatively mandated transformation of its public mental health, development disability, and substance abuse services delivery system. She provides leadership over several teams focusing on community services, including best practices, justice systems, prevention, quality management, and local management entities management. During her tenure in state government, she has provided leadership for several Division-wide initiatives focusing on improving the entire public mental health system. From 1998-2000, Ms. Stein chaired the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Redesign Project, an intensive system reform initiative that was co-sponsored by SAMHSA and HCFA. Her work history includes working in direct community-based service delivery and being responsible for developing and leading a crisis service program and a substance abuse program that targeted clients from special populations (e.g., criminal justice, women and people with co-occurring disorders.)
Kristy Straits-Tröster, Ph.D.
 Kristy Straits-Tröster, PhD, ABPP, serves as Assistant Clinical Co-Director of the VA Mid-Atlantic Region's Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). Dr. Straits-Tröster is a Clinical Health Psychologist and assists with the MIRECC's mission to facilitate development, dissemination, and evaluation of effective screening and interventions for post-deployment readjustment problems. She brings her experience from the VA National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (NCP), where she served as Assistant Director of Infectious Disease Prevention and Acting Director of Prevention Research. Dr. Straits-Tröster’s clinical experience in public health and in treating posttraumatic stress disorder informs her provision of clinical care for post-deployment readjustment issues at the Durham VAMC. She is coordinating a regional needs assessment for OIF/OEF veterans and their families, and serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University.
Richard C. Welton, M.D., MHA
Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy
Captain Welton reported as II MEF Force Surgeon on 27 June 2006. His recent prior assignments include: Commanding Officer, Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune (May 2003 –June 2006); Executive Assistant to the Navy Surgeon General with staff appointments at OPNAV 093 and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (August 2001 – May 2003); Chief of Staff, TRICARE Management Activity (TMA), a field operating activity reporting to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (June 2000 – July 2001); and Director of the TRICARE Pacific Lead Agency in Honolulu, HI (responsible for the implementation and management of the TRICARE Regional Health Services Plan for Hawaii, Alaska, and the Western Pacific; May 1997 – May 2000). Captain Welton’s military assignments include: General Internal Medicine, Ft. Eustis, Newport News, VA, 1977-1978; Assistant Chief of Rheumatology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington D.C., 1980-1; Chief of Rheumatology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington D.C., 1981-4; Commanding Officer, Naval Reserve, Naval Hospital Portsmouth 506, Portsmouth, VA, 1988-9; Director for Medical Services and Head, Internal Medicine Department, Naval Hospital, Charleston, SC, 1990-3; Deputy Chief, Medical Corps, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D.C.,1993-4; and the Branch Head, Medical Officer Community Manager, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington D.C., 1995.
 Angeline Martin Woodson, Ph.D.
Dr. Angeline Martin Woodson served six years in the Navy Reserves as a Storekeeper. She earned Veteran status after being activated and serving during Desert Storm/Desert Shield from December 1990 to December 1991. In addition, Dr. Woodson's husband served 25 years in the Marine Corp. He is now retired. The military has played a large part in her family's life. Dr. Woodson is currently a professor at Mount Olive College where she teaches in the Early Childhood Education Program. She is the mother of a girl, 11 and twin boys, 6.
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