Bradley Hall, MD, Executive Medical Director, WV Medical Professionals Health Program, Immediate Past-President, WVSMA

Dr. Hall is a third-generation West Virginia physician originally from Clarksburg. He attended college, medical school and family practice residency at WV University. After 15-years of private practice in Bridgeport, WV, he became involved in the establishment of the WV Medical Professionals Health Program serving as the Founding Medical Director. He has served as President/Executive Director of the West Virginia Society of Addiction Medicine (WVSAM). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is a certified Medical Review Officer by both the American Association of Medical Review Officers and the Medical Review Officer Certification Council. He is also a Board Registered Interventionist with the Association of Intervention Specialists (AIS).

Nationally, Dr. Hall is a Board of Director and Past President of the Federation of State Physician Health Programs. He has served on numerous committees and is currently Co-Chair of the Accreditation Review Council in the establishment of the FSPHP’s Performance Enhancement and Effectiveness Review Program (PEER) for Physician Health Programs and treatment centers. He is a member of multiple American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) committees including Physicians’ Health, Legislative and Membership. He served on the Federation of State Medical Boards Impaired Physicians Committee in the updating of the Impaired Physicians Policy in 2012 and is currently on the Federation of State Medical Board’s 2020 Workgroup updating the “Impaired Physician Policy”. Dr. Hall has also served as a member of the West Virginia Governor’s Advisory Council on Substance Abuse (GACSA).

Dr. Hall is a co-author of the Chapter on Physician Health Programs “Physician Mental Health and Well-Being – Research and Practice. New York: Springer Publishing” and Absolute Addiction Psychiatry Board Review Chapter on Professionals. Dr. Hall currently serves as Executive Medical Director of the WV Medical Professionals Health Program; the licensure board(s) designated Physicians Health Program and President of the WV State Medical Association where he has served on the Council and numerous committees.

Dr. Hall is a husband, married to Marlene, and father to Rachel, Justin and Crystal and grandfather to Dylan, Olivia, Clara and Grant.

Ayne Amjad, MD, MPH, Commissioner and State Health Officer, Bureau for Public Health, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

Dr. Ayne Amjad serves as Commissioner for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health, and as the West Virginia State Health Officer.

Since 2010, Dr. Amjad has been a private practicing physician specializing in internal medicine and preventive health care and founder of Bee-Better, a non-profit organization against opioid addiction.

In addition to her broad experience at the local level, she is the Assistant Program Director of Encompass Health in Princeton, West Virginia, and the Medical Director of PCH Home Health in her hometown of Beckley, West Virginia.

Dr. Amjad earned her medical degree from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and completed her post-graduate training in internal medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Additionally, she earned a Master of Public Health degree from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech.

Dr. Amjad is a member of the Human Rights Commission in Beckley, West Virginia, and serves as the Secretary of the West Virginia Board of Medicine.  She is also a Fellow of the Federation of State Medical Boards.  She is a former project coordinator of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health’s Beryllium Research Team and a former fellow of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A native of West Virginia, Dr. Amjad has served her home state for many years, from treating addiction to chronic health disease. She is a leader in transforming public health practice to advance health equity and create healthier communities for the betterment of West Virginia's citizens.

Christina Mullins, Commissioner, WVDHHR Bureau for Behavioral Health

Christina Mullins is the Commissioner for the Bureau for Behavioral Health. Previously, she served as the Director of the Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health and has worked in a variety of maternal and child health programs.  In her over  20-year tenure with the Department of Health and Human Resources, she has worked to establish West Virginia’s youth anti-tobacco campaign, collaborated with a multitude of partners to launch a surveillance system for neonatal abstinence syndrome, and co-authored the 2016 West Virginia Overdose Fatality Analysis. Christina was honored with the Maternal Child Health Bureau Director’s Award in October 2018 for her national contributions to the health of infants, mothers, children and children with special health care needs. Christina graduated from Marshall University with a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. 

Matthew Christiansen, MD, Director, WVDHHR Office of Drug Control Policy

Dr. Matthew Christiansen, Director of the Office of Drug Control Policy for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), plans and directs West Virginia’s efforts in combating the opioid epidemic.  He was appointed to this position in October 2020 by Governor Jim Justice. 

Dr. Christiansen is dual board certified in Addiction Medicine and Family Medicine and serves as Associate Professor in the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Health, Division of Addiction Sciences where he practices primary care and addiction medicine. Prior to his appointment to the Office of Drug Control Policy, Dr. Christiansen was active in treatment of addiction/dependence across the lifespan. He has lectured across the tri-state area on addiction issues from a public health and primary care perspective.

Dr. Christiansen earned an MD and MPH from Marshall University.

Terrence D. Walton, COO, National Association of Drug Court Professionals

Terrence D. Walton, Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), is among the nation’s leading experts in providing training and technical assistance regarding addiction, treatment, recovery management and treatment courts.  Prior to being named COO in October 2015, Terrence Walton was the NADCP Chief of Standards.  In addition to being responsible for the daily operation of NADCP and planning the national conference, he retains his responsibility for establishing and implementing best practice standards nationwide. 

Previously, Terrence Walton was Director of Treatment for the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia (PSA), in Washington, D.C.  During his 15 years at PSA, he was responsible for directing the PSA operations that provide substance use disorder and mental health assessment, treatment, and social services for all adults released under PSA supervision in the District of Columbia.  His responsibilities included overseeing the city’s adult Drug Court, the DWI Initiative, the mental health units, and various other programs for assessing, treating, and supervising justice system involved men and women. Previously, he excelled as the director of what was then the District of Columbia’s leading adolescent outpatient substance use treatment center.    

Terrence Walton has directed programs in Dayton, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He has helped evaluate a multi-million-dollar White House Anti-Drug Media Campaign and served on the substance abuse task force as a part of the White House Best Practices Collaborative.  In addition to his extensive work domestically, he has assisted treatment courts and addiction treatment programs in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Colombia, Barbados, Guam, Mexico, Vietnam, and Bermuda. 

Terrence Walton is an internationally certified alcohol and other drug abuse counselor with over twenty-five years of experience helping individuals and organizations champion positive change. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and a Master of Social Work degree with specializations in program administration and substance abuse.  Noted for his practical strength-based approaches to complex issues, Terrence Walton is actively sought out for insight on facilitating long term recovery for justice system involved individuals who are living with substance use and mental health disorders. Terrence Walton is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). A gifted and entertaining speaker, Terrence Walton travels extensively informing and inspiring audiences across the globe. 

Patrick Marshalek, MD, Vice Chair Inpatient Clinical Operations, Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, WVU School of Medicine

Patrick Marshalek, MD is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Inpatient Clinical Operations within the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine. As a psychiatrist with an addiction medicine certification, his primary areas of clinical work are inpatient consultative and emergency services, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and neuromodulation. Specifically, he is the Director of the Substance Use Disorder Consultation Service at WVUMedicine’s Ruby Memorial Hospital, where he provides consultative care for patients with opioid use disorder and mental illness. In regard to MAT, he has collaborated on the development of an innovative multidisciplinary program within the department to treat opioid dependent patients entitled, “Comprehensive Opioid Addiction Treatment” (COAT). Additionally, he has collaborated on the development of sub-specialized programming based on the aforementioned model for pregnant and postpartum women, as well as those suffering from chronic pain comorbidity. In regard to neuromodulation, he has provided ECT, TMS, and ketamine clinically to patients with treatment refractory depression, and has worked more recently on the development of an ambulatory service line directed towards those suffering from treatment resistant depression. 

Tricia Wright, MD, MS, FACOG, DFASAM, Professor, Dept OBGYN and Reproductive Sciences, University California; Chair, ACOG’s Opioid and Addiction Medicine Expert Work Group

Tricia Wright, MD MS is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. She was previously at the University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine, where she founded and ran the Path Clinic, a perinatal clinic specializing in the care of pregnant individuals living with substance use disorders.  She is board certified in both Ob/Gyn and Addiction Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She has written over 40 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and society guidelines, including editing the book Opioid Use Disorders in Pregnancy: Management Guidelines for Improving Outcomes published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. She is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Champions and Chair of ACOGs Opioid Use Disorder and Addiction Medicine Work Group.

Dr. Wright completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and her MD from the University of Michigan. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of New Mexico and obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical Research from the University of Hawai‘i, her thesis paper studying the disparities of smoking and drug use rates during pregnancy of Native Hawaiian women.  Her research interests include substance use disorders among pregnant women, including SBIRT, barriers to family planning, best practices for treatment, and the effects of substances on the placenta.

Todd Molfenter, Executive Director, NIATx Foundation

Todd is the Executive Director for the NIATx Foundation. The NIATx Foundation offers consulting and training in process improvement and organizational change. We are innovators—changing the way organizations across the country improve treatment systems. Todd has spent the past 25 years leading and studying performance improvement in health systems and the last 10 years designing and researching telehealth applications.

Kari-Beth Law, MD, Vice-Chair, Ambulatory Services, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry; Director, Telepsychiatry, Associate Professor, Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University

Kari-Beth Law, MD is an Associate Professor within the Clinical Track within the Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute and the Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry.  She is a native of Southern West Virginia and attended undergraduate and medical school at WVU. Thereafter, she transitioned to MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina for psychiatry residency training and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training.  She finished fellowship training at University of South Carolina in forensic psychiatry and returned to WVU in 2011.  She currently directs the WVU BMED telepsychiatry program, has multiple federally funded grants to extend mental health care into rural West Virginia communities and is an advocate for the advancement of telehealth.  She has additional administrative duties including Vice Chair of Ambulatory Services and Psychiatry Section Chief.

Shelvy Campbell-Monroe, PhD, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University

Dr. Campbell-Monroe is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor for Diversity & Inclusion for Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Marshall University School of Pharmacy. In her current role, she is responsible ensuring a quality and inclusive experience for all students, faculty, and staff at Marshall University schools of medicine and pharmacy 

Dr. Campbell-Monroe has proudly developed inclusive and equitable programs to create a better education experience for all students, faculty, and staff at Marshall University. A veteran of higher education administration, Campbell has served in human resources, diversity, equity, and compliance positions. Previously, she excelled as a graduate records and admissions supervisor for Marshall University at its South Charleston campus for more than a decade.

Dr. Campbell-Monroe has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from West Virginia State University, a master’s degree in industrial and employee relations from Marshall University, an education specialist degree from Marshall as well as a doctorate in higher education leadership from Capella University.

Throughout her career, she conducted presentations on topics such as "Writing a Compliant Affirmative Action Plan", "Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity"; “Cultural Humility’, "Implicit/Unconscious Bias and Micro aggressions." Furthermore, Dr. Campbell-Monroe has been involved in numerous professional and community activities, including, West Virginia Arthritis Foundation Leadership Board Chair; the Dunbar Recreational Commission, West Virginia Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs Advisory Board member and currently serving as Treasurer for the Dunbar Athletic Boosters, Inc.

For her exemplary efforts over the years, Dr. Campbell-Monroe was named a West Virginia Wonder Woman for 2020 by WV Living magazine. She was presented the Martin Luther King "Living the Dream Award" in the area of scholarship from the West Virginia Martin Luther King Jr. State Holiday Commission and the Emerging Leaders Award from the National Association of Medical Minority Educators, Inc.  Dr. Campbell-Monroe has served as the national program chair for 5 years and is now president-elect of the National Association of Minority Educators, Inc. 

Bradley Hall, MD, Executive Medical Director, WV Medical Professionals Health Program, Immediate Past-President, WVSMA

Dr. Hall is a third-generation West Virginia physician originally from Clarksburg. He attended college, medical school and family practice residency at WV University. After 15-years of private practice in Bridgeport, WV, he became involved in the establishment of the WV Medical Professionals Health Program serving as the Founding Medical Director. He has served as President/Executive Director of the West Virginia Society of Addiction Medicine (WVSAM). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is a certified Medical Review Officer by both the American Association of Medical Review Officers and the Medical Review Officer Certification Council. He is also a Board Registered Interventionist with the Association of Intervention Specialists (AIS).

Nationally, Dr. Hall is a Board of Director and Past President of the Federation of State Physician Health Programs. He has served on numerous committees and is currently Co-Chair of the Accreditation Review Council in the establishment of the FSPHP’s Performance Enhancement and Effectiveness Review Program (PEER) for Physician Health Programs and treatment centers. He is a member of multiple American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) committees including Physicians’ Health, Legislative and Membership. He served on the Federation of State Medical Boards Impaired Physicians Committee in the updating of the Impaired Physicians Policy in 2012 and is currently on the Federation of State Medical Board’s 2020 Workgroup updating the “Impaired Physician Policy”. Dr. Hall has also served as a member of the West Virginia Governor’s Advisory Council on Substance Abuse (GACSA).

Dr. Hall is a co-author of the Chapter on Physician Health Programs “Physician Mental Health and Well-Being – Research and Practice. New York: Springer Publishing” and Absolute Addiction Psychiatry Board Review Chapter on Professionals. Dr. Hall currently serves as Executive Medical Director of the WV Medical Professionals Health Program; the licensure board(s) designated Physicians Health Program and President of the WV State Medical Association where he has served on the Council and numerous committees.

Dr. Hall is a husband, married to Marlene, and father to Rachel, Justin and Crystal and grandfather to Dylan, Olivia, Clara and Grant.

Allen Mock, MD, MS, FCAP, FNAME, Chief Medical Examiner, State of WV Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Dr. Al Mock, Chief Medical Examiner for the State of West Virginia, served as Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for three years before being appointed Chief. Dr. Mock previously served as Assistant Medical Examiner in Tennessee’s Knox and Anderson Counties. 

Dr. Mock is a graduate of LSU Baton Rouge with a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Biochemistry. He holds Master of Science degrees in Microbiology, Immunology, Parasitology from the LSU Health Sciences Center. Dr. Mock received his M.D. at the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, completed a surgical and clinical Pathology residency at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, and a Forensic Pathology fellowship at the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, NM. He is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Body Recovery School and the National Rifle Association Firearms Instructor School and interned at the Orleans Regional Security Institute under Dr. Wade Schindler. 

Dr. Mock holds an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor at the WVU School of Medicine and Marshall University. He is Board certified in surgical, clinical, and forensic pathology. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Pathology, a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, and a Fellow of the National Association of Medical Examiners.

Dr. Mock’s interests include firearms, ballistics, forensic toxicology, public health, health law, and 1714-1810 period furniture construction.

Robert L. DuPont, MD, President, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc.

For 50 years, Robert L. DuPont, MD has been a leader in drug abuse prevention and treatment. He was the first Director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (1973-1978) and the second White House Drug Chief (1973-1977). From 1968-1970 he was Director of Community Services for the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. From 1970-1973, he served as Administrator of the District of Columbia Narcotics Treatment Administration. In 1978 he became the founding President of the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., a non-profit research and policy organization that identifies and promotes powerful new ideas to reduce drug use and addiction. A graduate of Emory University, Dr. DuPont received an MD degree in 1963 from the Harvard Medical School. He completed his psychiatric training at Harvard and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. DuPont maintains an active practice of psychiatry specializing in addiction and the anxiety disorders and has been Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine since 1980.  

His most recent book is Chemical Slavery: Understanding Addiction and Stopping the Drug Epidemic published in 2018.  

For more about Dr. DuPont’s work and the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. visit www.IBHinc.org, www.StopDruggedDriving.org, and www.OneChoicePrevention.org. 

Jessica Gold, MD, MS, Assistant Professor and Director of Wellness, Engagement and Outreach, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis

Jessi Gold, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Wellness, Engagement, and Outreach in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. Dr. Gold is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. and M.S in Anthropology, the Yale School of Medicine in 2014, and completed her residency training in Adult Psychiatry at Stanford University where she served as chief resident from 2017-2018. 

She is a nationally recognized expert on healthcare worker mental health and burnout (particularly during the pandemic), college mental health, using social media and media for mental health advocacy, and the overlap between pop culture and mental health, including celebrity mental health and self-disclosure. She is interviewed regularly as an expert on these topics and also writes for the popular press and has been featured in, among others, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TIME, Vox, Newsweek, Self, and InStyle, and is a Forbes contributor. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Council for the ViacomCBS Mental Health Storytelling Initiative and Co-author of the Mental Health Media Guide. You can find her on twitter or instagram @drjessigold or on her website drjessigold.com. 

Elliott H. Birckhead, Deputy Commissioner, Programs and Policies, WVDHHR Bureau for Behavioral Health

Elliott currently works as a Deputy Commissioner for Programs and Policies for the Bureau for Behavioral Health, where he has worked for the 18 years in several different capacities. Elliott has been married for 37 years to his wife Sara and has two adult children, two dogs and a cat. Elliott’s previous jobs included 8 years at Legal Aid of WV as the Director of the Behavioral Health Advocacy Project and, prior to a four break for law school in Washington, D.C., positions in the mental health and addiction, child welfare, intellectual and developmental disabilities and HIV/AIDS arenas.

Stephanie Covington, PhD, LCSW, Institute for Relational Development, Center for Gender and Justice, Institute for Relational Development, Center for Gender and Justice

Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, LCSW, is an internationally recognized clinician, organizational consultant, lecturer, and author and is a pioneer in the field of woman’s issues, addiction, trauma, and recovery. For more than thirty-five years, she has created gender-responsive and trauma-informed programs and services for use in public, private, and institutional settings. Her extensive experience includes consulting for and developing programs for numerous U.S. and international agencies and designing women’s services at the Betty Ford Center. She has conducted seminars for behavioral health professionals, community organizations, criminal justice professionals, and recovery groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Iceland, Brazil, and New Zealand. She also has developed programs for women in many criminal justice settings and is the featured therapist on the Oprah Winfrey Network TV show entitled Breaking Down the Bars. Dr. Covington has served as a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna and was selected for the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Advisory Committee for Women’s Services. Educated at Columbia University and the Union Institute, Dr. Covington has served on the faculties of the University of Southern California, San Diego State University, and the California School of Professional Psychology. She has published extensively, including ten gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment curricula. She is based in La Jolla, California, where she is co-director of both the Institute for Relational Development and the Center for Gender and Justice.

Michael Baron, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Tennessee Medical Foundation – Physician Health Program

Dr. Michael Baron obtained an MD and MPH degree at Tulane University. He completed his Anesthesiology residency at Washington University in St Louis and his Psychiatry residency at Vanderbilt University. He has maintained board certifications in Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine.  He has practiced in the Nashville area since 1998 in a variety of settings. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. His specialty is chronic pain and addiction. In 2006, he published original research showing that high dose opioids increased chronic pain scores.

Dr. Baron was appointed to the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners (BME) in 2010 and reappointed in 2015. He served as Chair of the Tennessee Controlled Substance Monitoring Database committee for three years. He helped write many different Tennessee Department of Health rules pertaining the treatment of pain, prescribing controlled substances and addiction. Dr. Baron resigned from the appointed positions in January 2017 to accept the Medical Director position of the Tennessee Medical Foundation – Physician Health Program. Dr. Baron serves on the steering committee for the Tennessee Chronic Pain Guidelines. He helped write the Federation of State Medical Boards policy on Professional Sexual Misconduct in 2019 and the Impaired Physician Policy in 2020. Dr. Baron is also the volunteer Medical Director for the Nashville/Davidson County Drug Court- DC4.  

Dr. Baron is one of the two South East Representatives to the Board of Directors for the Federation of State Physician Health Programs. He also serves as chair of the Ethics Committee and chair of the Evaluation and Treatment Accreditation Committee for the Federation of State Physician Health Programs.

Judith Feinberg, MD, Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry and Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases, West Virginia University School of Medicine

Judith Feinberg, MD, FACP, FIDSA, is the Dr. E.B. Flink Vice Chair of Medicine for Research and Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. In 2005, she was the first physician in metropolitan Cincinnati to recognize that the injection opioid epidemic had arrived in southwestern Ohio due to the increased number of admissions for infective endocarditis. Understanding what would come next from her experience as a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Feinberg started gathering data and support for a syringe exchange program.  In 2014, this effort came to fruition as The Cincinnati Exchange Project, Ohio’s 3rd syringe exchange and its first true syringe services program. After a long career in HIV/AIDS research, she was recruited to WVU in 2015 to develop a research program that focuses on the intersection of the injection drug use epidemic and its associated medical (overdose) and infectious (HIV, hepatitis B and C, endocarditis, etc.) complications. Dr. Feinberg is the current Past Chair of the Board of the national HIV Medicine Association and has served on numerous federal (NIH, CDC, FDA) and state committees dedicated to HIV/AIDS and the opioid epidemic. She has served as a research mentor for college and medical students, residents, graduate students, ID fellows and junior faculty. She currently holds federal (NIH, PCORI, CDC, Appalachian Regional Commission), state and industry grants for studies in the management of substance use disorder and the complications of injection drug use. Dr. Feinberg is committed to turning the tide on these diseases that are devastating West Virginia.

James H. Berry, DO, Chair and Professor, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia University

James H. Berry, DO is Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Director of Addictions. He is board certified in both General Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. He received his medical degree from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, completed a General Psychiatry residency at West Virginia University and an Addiction Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Hawaii. He and his colleagues at WVU have developed innovative community-based treatment models in response to the addiction crisis in Appalachia and are actively engaged in novel neuromodulation research related to substance use disorders through WVU’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Berry has been a dedicated clinician and enthusiastic educator in West Virginia since the early days of the opioid epidemic. Statewide, he serves as a member of the West Virginia Governor’s Advisory Council on Substance Use Disorders. Nationally, He serves on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s Addiction Psychiatry Examination Committee, the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine Board of Trustees, the Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care’s National Integrational Academy Council, and is a member of the Addiction Policy Forum’s Scientific Advisory Board. He has enjoyed advocating on behalf of those suffering from mental illness and addiction before audiences as varied as local town hall meetings to testifying before the United States Senate. Media appearances have included The Doctors television show, The Huffington Post, Politico, The Washington Post and NPR. He and his patients were featured in the PBS NOVA documentary: Addiction that exposed a national audience to the science behind addiction and the humanity of those who suffer.

Erin L. Winstanley, PhD, Vice Chair of Research and Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia University

Dr. Winstanley is the Vice Chair of Research and an Associate Professor at West Virginia University, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry. Dr. Winstanley received her doctoral degree from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and she has over 20 years of experience as a behavioral health services researcher. She is a Co-Investigator of the Appalachian Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN) and Co-Chair of the Rural Special Interest Group for the NIDA CTN. Her current research is focused on reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with the overdose epidemic, as well as the use of technology to improve access and quality of behavioral health services.