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Alice Zhang, MD, MPH is a family medicine physician and tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine. She has a passion for health equity focused, community-based research in addiction medicine. Her clinical experience in treating substance use disorder within primary care settings has motivated…

Orrin D. Ware, PhD, MPH, MSW is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. Dr. Ware has formal graduate and postdoctoral training in behavioral pharmacology, field epidemiology, public health, and social work. He has real-world experience (1) as a clinical social worker in a specialized crisis…

Milan F. Satcher, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and a Health Equity Faculty Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth College. In addition, she is a LEAD scholar at University of California, San Francisco. She is a board-certified family…

Noa Krawczyk, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Associate Director of the NYU Langone Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy. Her research focuses on studying ways to address barriers to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder at the individual, program, and policy…

Howard Kim, MD, MS is an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Denver Health followed by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality T32 postdoctoral fellowship in health services and outcomes research and K12 career development award in patient-centered intervention…

Allyson “Ally” Dir, PhD, HSPP is an Assistant Professor and licensed clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Dir maintains both an active clinical practice providing care to adults and adolescents with substance use disorders and a productive program of research. Her research is broadly focused on leveraging…

Damian Chase-Begay, PhD, MS (Mandan/Arikara) is an Associate Research Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Montana. In July 2024, he received a career development award (K01) in implementation science from NIDA to rigorously adapt an evidence-based substance abuse prevention intervention for urban Indigenous young adults in Montana to incorporate traditional ceremonial practices (TCPs).…

Briana Patrick, MS, joined the Center for Dissemination and Implementation (CDI) in 2023 as the Project Coordinator for the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at Stanford (C-DIAS) and the Health Data2Action Research Adoption Support Center (RASC). She focuses on technical and pragmatic assistance utilizing a DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and access) lens at all system…

Jonathan Purtle is Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management and Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science. Dr. Purtle is an implementation scientist whose research focuses on mental health policy. His work examines questions such as how research evidence can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and is used…

Fernanda S. Rossi, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University and completed her clinical psychology predoctoral internship at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS). She also…