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Tanya C. Saraiya, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. Her program of research seeks to develop, test, and implement treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and co-occurring substance use disorders. She is particularly invested in enhancing treatments…

Andrea Jakubowski, MD, MS is a general internist, addiction medicine specialist, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Jakubowski provides primary care and medications for opioid use disorder in a syringe services program and opioid treatment program, and cares for patients on a hospital addiction consult service. Dr.…

Berkeley Franz, PhD is a medical sociologist and health services researcher whose work aims to increase access to medications for opioid use disorder in underserved communities. Dr. Franz is Professor of Community-based Health at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Athens, Ohio and Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Faculty…

Brittany Bryant, DSW, LISW-CP is an Assistant Professor at UCSF and distinguished fellow in the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at Stanford University. As a dedicated clinician and researcher, Dr. Bryant’s work is deeply rooted in building community-engaged research programs aimed at reducing substance use and improving mental health outcomes for minoritized youth. This prestigious…

Ekaterina Burduli, PhD, MS is an associate professor at Washington State University’s College of Nursing in Spokane. Her research focuses on the birth outcomes of women who use substances during pregnancy and their infants, and the development and implementation of novel interventions for perinatal women with substance use disorders. Her long-term goal is to identify…

Hannah Cheng works at the Center for Dissemination & Implementation, where her work primarily focuses on implementing addiction treatments in primary care and specialty care settings. She is dedicated to understanding how to optimize implementation efforts and applying implementation science to improve equity and access to mental health services. Hannah received her BS in Psychology…

Dr. Jay Ford is an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His background as a health systems engineer and quality improvement experiences contributed to becoming a dissemination and implementation (D&I) expert. In his research, Dr. Ford actively works with health care organizations coaching staff through the process of implementing…

Chay Davis is currently a Project Manager at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) working with Joe Glass on the C-DIAS Project 3 (DIGITS-Equity Study). Chay received her PhD in Psychology specializing in quantitative behavioral genetics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and completed a post doctoral fellow in the Department of Medical…