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Jeffrey De Flavio, MD, is the Founder of Groups: Recover Together, a national treatment provider for Opioid Use Disorder. With over 20,000 patients served in 2022, Groups’ unique clinical model and value-based contracting drive industry-leading clinical outcomes. Groups: Recover Together provides holistic treatment for Opioid Use Disorder across 142 offices in 18 states. The digital-hybrid…

Barbara Cimaglio is a national leader in the field of alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery. Throughout her career she has led state efforts to strengthen and administer systems of care in Illinois, Oregon, and Vermont. In her role as single state agency substance use disorder director in each of these states, she…

Peter Friedmann, MD, is an established NIDA-funded addiction health services researcher, Chief Research Officer and Endowed Chair for Clinical Research at Baystate Health, and the Associate Dean for Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate. Dr. Friedmann is a primary care internist, addiction medicine clinician, and established substance abuse researcher who has published over…

Naomi Fedna-Thompson is the Communications Specialist for the Center for Dissemination & Implementation. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. For four years, she worked at The Institute for Healthcare Improvement where…

Keith Humphreys is the Esther Ting Professor and the Section Director for Mental Health Policy in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His widely recognized expertise includes the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders and the formation of public policy. Humphreys has led VA and NIH research on addiction treatments and…

C. Hendricks Brown is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Preventive Medicine, and Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics and Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Department of Public Health…

Lisa Saldana is director of the Lighthouse Institute at Chestnut Health Systems and the primary developer of the Stages of Implementation Completion (SIC) and the Cost of Implementing New Strategies (COINS), two standardized and widely adopted measures of implementation strategies. She is the principal investigator or co-investigator on several federally funded projects. Her current research…

Dr. Hélène Chokron Garneau joined the Stanford Center for Dissemination and Implementation in 2019 as a Senior Research Scientist. Dr. Chokron Garneau has extensive research experience in public health and substance use, with an emphasis on co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders. Her current efforts at CDI focus on advancing implementation science by disentangling mechanisms through…

Dr. Mark McGovern is a Professor of Psychiatry and of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He founded the Center for Dissemination & Implementation (CDI) when he arrived from Dartmouth Medical School in 2017. After 20 years as a practicing clinician, Dr. McGovern is now focused on scaling up access to the evidence-based health…