Advisory Committee for MBC and the MBHR

Ross is head of clinical at Blueprint Health, a measurement-based care and provider enablement technology company. As an organizational psychologist and independently licensed behavioral health clinician (LPCC, LMFT), Ross’ leadership experience spans clinical operations, quality improvement, health care system integration, behavioral health product design, end-user driven innovation, and measurement-based care.

He previously served as vice president of clinical innovations at Rogers Behavioral Health, where he was responsible for leading digital strategy and innovation for the system. Prior to this, Ross served as national senior director of clinical strategy for Optum Behavioral Health. In addition, he held positions with Kaiser Permanente in Colorado, The Permanente Medical Group in Northern California, and the Care Management Institute within Kaiser Permanente’s National Program Offices, where he worked to increase behavioral health primary care integration, advance clinical innovation, and drive quality and outcomes improvement.

Ross earned both his PhD in organizational psychology and MA in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. He also holds an MA in clinical counseling from Sonoma State University and a BA in liberal studies from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, both in California.

Bott is a clinical neuropsychologist, licensed in California. He serves as the global head of technology ethics and responsible innovation at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Previously, Bott directed the high-value health care design fellowship at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center. In this role, he taught and mentored early-career physicians and clinicians in health care financing and reimbursement, and in the design of value-based care service delivery design.

Bott has also served in chief science and privacy officer roles building and developing multimodal digital measures of cognition and emotion. He currently serves on the National Academy of Neuropsychology Professional Affairs and Information Committee. Bott received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Consortium and was a postdoctoral fellow in the departments of medicine and neurology.

Casline (she/her) is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science. She completed her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Miami, after completing a predoctoral internship at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Her research seeks to improve community-based behavioral health care services through increased use of standardized assessment and MBC practices. Her work has focused on measurement of MBC fidelity and uses implementation science methods to characterize contextual factors and strategies that influence MBC implementation. She has worked on several National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute of Drug Abuse randomized controlled trials to evaluate implementation of MBC in youth mental health care settings and adult opioid treatment programs.

Douglas is a licensed clinical psychologist and an associate professor of practice in the department of leadership, policy, and organizations at Vanderbilt University. She teaches in the leadership and organizational performance master’s program and also is part of the leadership team at Mirah, a behavioral health care technology company specializing in MBC. Douglas has an active research portfolio focused on using MBC for practice improvement and organizational learning. Through her research and her work with Mirah, Douglas engages regularly with clinicians, supervisors, and agency leaders to explore best practices to sustain high quality implementation, including expanding our understanding of MBC mechanisms of action.

She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1999, followed by pre- and postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. Douglas serves on the editorial board for administration and policy in mental health and mental health services research. She also serves on nonprofit boards in international health care and in professional organizations both nationally and internationally.

Jensen-Doss is a professor and the director of clinical training in the department of psychology at the University of Miami. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, after completing her clinical internship at the Charleston Consortium at the Medical University of South Carolina. Her research seeks to characterize and improve youth clinical care, particularly by testing the benefits of employing evidence-based assessment tools and treatments in clinical care settings.

Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She has numerous articles published in top-tier journals and is coeditor of a book on diagnostic and behavioral assessment in youth. She currently serves as an associate editor for the journal Administration and Policy in Mental Health Services and Mental Health Services Research.

She is a past leader of the ABCT Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group and past member-at-large for science and practice for the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. She is currently the past chair of the Coalition for the Advancement and Application of Psychological Science, a national consortium of organizations dedicated to advancing the public health impact of psychological science.

Lanca is the director of neuropsychology and cognitive wellness and director of population behavioral health at Cambridge Health Alliance. She is also assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In the division of population behavioral health, she oversees the implementation of measurement-based care in psychiatry and develops new programs geared towards precision medicine and improvement of patient-centered care through early identification and intervention of emergent behavioral health conditions. In neuropsychology, Lanca directs the neuropsychology service and oversees training of the neuropsychology postdoctoral fellows.

Her clinical work has been to specialize in provision of multicultural neuropsychological assessments and understanding the factors influencing the assessment of patients of diverse backgrounds and with serious mental illness. Her research has focused on improving neuropsychology assessments through investigation of clinical outcomes, and stakeholder views of neuropsychological report writing. She has innovated neuropsychological screens in primary care, cognitive stabilization intervention during Covid-19, and guidelines for the provision of teleneuropsychology during Covid-19.

She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology at Northeastern University and respecialized in clinical psychology as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She completed her neuropsychology residency at Harvard Medical School. She is currently the president-elect of APA Division 40 (Society of Clinical Neuropsychology) and past president of the Massachusetts Psychological Association.

Lind is a licensed psychologist who serves on the chief clinical leadership team of Deer Oaks Behavioral Health in the role of chief of quality assurance and compliance. Her primary responsibilities include developing and implementing clinical practices, policies, and service delivery protocols for providers working in long-term care settings in the 29 states served by Deer Oaks. She leads and directs the Deer Oaks clinical teams in several states, including Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. She also oversees quality assurance processes, quality initiatives, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System reporting for the company, clinical outcome analysis, and compliance for psychology services.

Her current research interests include examining mental health outcomes pre- and postpandemic in patients who resided in long term care settings during the pandemic. Outside of work, she currently holds several leadership positions, including immediate past president of Psychologists in Long-Term Care and current cochair of AMDA’s Behavioral Health Advisory Committee.

She received her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of North Texas and completed her doctoral internship and postdoctoral residency at the North Texas VA Health Care System. She is board certified in geropsychology and has spent her career working with older adults. She currently provides psychological and neuropsychological services to adults in long term care settings.

Martinez is a clinical psychologist working to improve large systems of care for youth experiencing mental health problems. He is an assistant professor in the Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence use (BRIDGE) program and a faculty member in the NIMH-funded Impact Alacrity center. His research sits at the intersection of clinical and implementation sciences, and his research is heavily informed by his clinical experience. Martinez’s implementation research focuses on implementing and optimizing measurement-based care and other evidence-based practices (EBPs) using practical implementation methods. His clinical research relates to the therapy process—the behaviors and processes in therapy that lead clients to change and improve—particularly in EBPs such as cognitive behavioral therapy. Martinez is passionate about teaching and clinical work. While not currently practicing, he has experience working with patients across multiple levels of care—from primary care to inpatient psychiatry. He frequently gives invited didactics and trainings on measurement-based care, culturally compassionate anxiety treatment, and case conceptualization.

McKune presently serves as the chief operating officer for Seven Counties Services located in Louisville, Kentucky. She previously served as the chief operations officer for UofL Health Peace Hospital and associate vice president of population and behavioral health strategy for Passport Health Plan by Molina Healthcare. She has represented the Association of Community Affiliated Plans on the American Psychiatric Association Measure Development Technical Expert Panel. She is a Kentucky licensed psychologist with a specialty in health psychology. McKune presently serves on the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology and is a past chair. She is a past-president of the Kentucky Psychological Association and the Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky. She is a former director of mental health for the Kentucky Department of Corrections; Kentucky Psychological Association director of professional affairs; director of psychology, neuropsychology, and brain injury programs at Frazier Rehabilitation Institute; and director of the health psychology emphasis area and adjunct clinical associate professor at Spalding University School of Professional Psychology. She is a graduate of the University of Louisville and the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Puspitasari is a board-certified psychologist and clinical director at Rogers Behavioral Health in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. She provides supervision and training to behavior specialists and therapists working in the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient levels of care focusing on mood and anxiety disorders. She is board certified through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) with a specialty in behavioral and cognitive psychology.

Puspitasari received her BS in sociology, anthropology, and human services at the University of Minnesota-Morris. She then earned her MS in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also earned her PhD in clinical psychology. Puspitasari completed her predoctoral clinical internship at Alpert Medical School-Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and her postdoctoral fellowship in implementation science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Prior to joining Rogers, Puspitasari was an assistant professor of psychology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota, where she was also senior associate consultant in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology.

As a scientist practitioner, Puspitasari’s research focuses on the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) in diverse behavioral health settings. She coauthored peer-review articles and presented at conferences on the dissemination and implementation of EBPs. She has provided EBPs training, supervision, and consultation for clinicians both in the United States and internationally.

Puspitasari is the copresident for the Process-Based Therapy Special Interest Group within the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. She has previously served as a member of the diversity, equity, and inclusion committees at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Brown University, and Mayo Clinic.

Weisz is the president at Greenspace Health, a technology company that was developed to support the adoption of MBC across the behavioral health and substance use sector. He has participated in supporting more than 500 implementations of MBC across a wide range of provider organizations, client populations, levels of care, and program types. He has also participated in advocacy and education on this topic.

He completed his degree in law (JD) and business (HBA) at Western University and began his career in corporate law at Stikeman Elliott LLP. He then transitioned to the nonprofit sector, helping to launch Building Up, a nonprofit social enterprise that supports people living with barriers to employment. This experience led to a shift in priorities and professional interest. He later cofounded Greenspace Health. He plays an active role as chair and director at Building Up, chair and director at Raising the Roof (a national charity focused on homelessness prevention), and volunteers in support of refugee families.