List of Institute Affiliates
Rene' Anderson
Rene' Anderson is a Human Services Program Specialist for the Division of State and Local Support in the Department of Child and Family Studies. Her role is to provide the perspective and experience she has gained as a parent who has navigated the education, mental health, child welfare and juvenile justice systems on behalf of her child who is diagnosed with serious mental health problems.
Office: MHC 2403
Phone: 813-974-2199
Email: randerso@usf.edu
Catherine Batsche, PhD
Dr. Batsche is the Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. She is a school psychologist with special interest in youth with disabilities or behavioral health problems. Dr. Batsche first came to USF in 1992 and served as the Associate Dean for the Florida Mental Health Institute. She then completed eight years of service as a Vice Provost in Academic Affairs. When the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences was formed in 2008, Dr. Batsche played an instrumental role in developing the organizational and administrative infrastructure for the new college.
Office: MHC 1115
Phone: 813-974-1992
Email: cbatsche@usf.edu
Marion Becker, RN, PhD
Marion Becker, RN, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Social Work. Dr Becker is a psychiatric nurse with a graduate degree in gerontology and a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on quality of care and quality of life outcomes for vulnerable populations, with a particular emphasis on older adults with co-occurring mental and physical health disorders.
Office: MHC 1419
Phone: 813-974-7188
Email: mbecker2@usf.edu
Karen Berkman, PhD
Dr. Berkman has a Doctoral degree in Special Education from Syracuse University and Masters degrees in Social Work and Counseling Psychology. She has over 29 years of experience in the fields of developmental disabilities. Before joining CARD in January 2004, Dr. Berkman served as the director of the Center for Autism at Pressley Ridge in Pittsburgh. Her experiences have included working in residential programs, as well as community-based and clinical settings for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Office: MHC 1525
Phone: 813-974-4033
Email: kberkman@fmhi.usf.edu
Timothy Boaz, PhD
Dr. Boaz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Kansas in 1986 and completed his Clinical Psychology Pre-Doctoral Internship training in behavioral medicine and neuropsychology at the Brown University Program in Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in Providence, RI. A Licensed Psychologist in the State of Florida, his primary research interests involve evaluation of public mental health programs and the use of administrative data sets in mental health policy research.
Office: MHC 2736
Phone: 813-974-1933
Email: boaz@usf.edu
Roger Boothroyd, PhD
Dr. Boothroyd is a Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy and also holds a faculty appointment in the College of Public Health. He has been conducting mental health services research for the past 20 years. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, specializing in measurement, evaluation, and research design. He teaches courses in research methodology, program evaluation, and statistics. Dr. Boothroyd was formerly a Research Scientist with the New York State Office of Mental Health where he directed various federally-funded research and demonstration projects.
Office: MHC 2719
Phone: 813-974-1915
Email: boothroy@usf.edu
David Chiriboga, PhD
Dr. Chiriboga currently is a professor in the Department of Child & Family Studies in the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. His ongoing work includes a statewide study of mental and physical health disparities in Florida, disparities in service utilization among Medicaid beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease, as well as a state-contracted study of implementation issues surrounding initiation of reimbursement for telemental health by the Florida Medicaid agency. He has a long history of producing outstanding researchers in the field of aging, serving as a mentor for numerous postdoctoral fellows and students.
Office: MHC 2314
Phone: 813-974-1939
Email: dchiriboga@usf.edu
Annette Christy, PhD
Annette Christy, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy. Dr. Christy's work is at the nexus of mental health services and criminal justice research. She directs the Baker Act Reporting Center, which involves the receipt and analysis of statewide civil commitment data. This has led to work investigating emergency commitment as it relates to various issue and populations. Her work has also included studies of specialty courts (Broward County Mental Health Court evaluation), coercion into outpatient care (MacArthur Network on Mandated Community Treatment study), as well as competence to proceed (report quality for children and adults, as well as the timing of movement of adults through various stages in the process).
Office: MHC 2637
Phone: 813-974-1923
Email: achristy@usf.edu
Colleen Clark, PhD
Colleen Clark, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Her research, clinical, and administrative professional life has focused on improving the lives of people with serious mental illnesses by working with community partners. She has been the principal investigator on numerous national initiatives to address problems affecting their lives including homelessness, co-occurring disorders such as alcoholism, homeless families, gender differences, the effects of violence/trauma/abuse, and parenting.
Office: MHC 2732
Phone: 813-974-9022
Email: cclark8@usf.edu
Shelley Clarke, MA, BCBA
Shelley Clarke, MA, BCBA, is the Assistant Director of Research within the Division of Applied Research and Educational Support and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Ms. Clarke's current responsibilities include coordinating and conducting applied research across a number of federally funded projects, as well as serving as a research consultant. Recommendations are provided for empirical designs, data collection and training of staff for investigative projects within The Florida Center for Inclusive Communities/University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), The Program-Wide Early Intervention Project (PWPBS), The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD), and The Positive Family Intervention Project(PFIP).
Office: MHC 2114
Phone: 813-974-3323
Email: clarke@fmhi.usf.edu
Kyaien Conner, PhD
Dr. Conner is an assistant professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy. Her research investigates the factors that influence disparities in mental health service utilization and treatment outcomes for African American elders with depression. For several years Dr. Conner has worked as a licensed community-based mental health practitioner in predominantly low-income African American communities, where she witnessed disparities in mental health diagnosis and treatment, mistrust in the mental health service delivery system and negative attitudes toward seeking mental health treatment.
Office: MHC 2636
Phone: 813-974-7028
Email: koconner@usf.edu
Areana Cruz, MSEd
Ms. Cruz is a Social and Behavioral Researcher in the Department of Child & Family Studies at the University of South Florida. Her background is in Psychology and Mental Health Counseling. She has research experience in adolescent substance abuse, stigmatization of parental help-seeking behaviors, and the early detection of early cognitive impairment in neurodegenerative and other brain disorders. She is currently involved in evaluation research for the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).
Office: MHC 2413-C
Phone: 813-974-0985
Email: areanac@usf.edu
Tina Dillahunt-Aspillaga, PhD, CRC, CVE, CLCP
Dr. Dillahunt-Aspillaga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation & Mental Health Counseling. Her research focuses on the reintegration of veterans with TBI into their communities, improving patient and caregiver quality of life. Dr. Dillahunt-Aspillaga carries a number of specialty certifications to work effectively with individuals with TBI and their families/caregivers. Certified as a Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC), a Vocational Evaluator (CVE), a Life Care Planner (CLCP), and as a Brain Injury Specialist Trainer (CBIST), she is knowledgeable about the immediate, as well as short and long-term, needs of persons with TBI and their families/caregivers.
Office: MHC 1638
Phone: 813-974-1282
Email: cdillahuntas@usf.edu
Claudia Dold, MA
Claudia Dold is the Assistant University Librarian at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute (FMHI) Research Library. Her driving interest is the process of learning: How do people learn? What are the most effective and efficient ways to present information to today's college and graduate students? How do students want their information delivered? What information is most useful to them? What information do they need that they don't realize they need, and how to present that information so they will realize they need to pay attention?
Office: MHC 1744
Phone: 813-974-7040
Email: cdold@usf.edu
Norin Dollard, PhD
Dr. Dollard is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies.She has over fifteen years of services research and evaluation experience in the area of behavioral health needs of children and families and has been responsible for or directed all aspects of the research process including design, implementation, analysis, interpretation and dissemination.
Office: MHC 2510
Phone: 813-974-3761
Email: dollard@fmhi.usf.edu
Mark A. Engelhardt, MS, MSW, ACSW
Mark A. Engelhardt is a Faculty Research Associate in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy. He provides training and consultation to various state agencies, county governments, advocacy groups, and mental health and substance abuse providers throughout the State of Florida. Mr. Engelhardt concentrates on systems development with an emphasis on policy-making and program development.
Office: MHC 2737
Phone: 813-974-0769
Email: MEngelhardt@usf.edu
Sondra J. Fogel
Dr. Fogel is an associate professor in the School of Social Work. She is currently serving as the founding Director of Special Program for the University of South Florida Honors College. Dr. Fogel is a 1994 graduate of the social work Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. She received her Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) from Columbia University in 1983. Dr. Fogel completed her double major psychology and sociology undergraduate degree in 1980 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Fogel has a LCSW and is a Florida qualified social work superior.
Office: ALN 241
Phone: 813-974-3087
Email: sfogel@usf.edu
Tracy-Ann Gilbert-Smith, MS
Tracy-Ann Gilbert-Smith, M.S. is a Social and Behavioral Researcher in the Division of Training, Research, Evaluation and Demonstrations (TREaD). Tracy-Ann is the Project Director for the Online Learning in Children's Mental Health, and a teaching assistant for the Graduate Certificate in Children's Mental Health. In addition, she is the logistics and off-site coordinator for the System of Care Practice Review (SOCPR-R) site visits. She is also responsible for research management, the collection and analysis of data, scanning public agency and private foundation websites for grant opportunities, and gathering and developing literature base.
Office: MHC 2321
Phone: 813-974-3341
Email: tgsmith@fmhi.usf.edu
Howard Goldstein, PhD
Dr. Howard Goldstein is the Associate Dean for Research and is the College liaison for all research processes, including sponsored research.
Office: MHC 1121
Phone: 813-974-9613
Email: hgoldstein@usf.edu
Michael Greeson
Michael Greeson is a Research Support Specialist with the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities in the Department of Child & Family Studies.
Office: MHC 2125D
Phone: 813-974-7975
Email: greeson@usf.edu
Amber Gum, PhD
Amber Gum, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. Her research focuses on mental health service utilization and delivery for older adults with depression. She conducts collaborative, community-based research to integrate mental health services into non-specialty settings and to improve collaboration among professionals working across service sectors. She currently has a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation to implement a holistic senior wellness program in faith-based settings in collaboration with five local predominantly African-American churches.
Office: MHC 2632A
Phone: 813-974-1980
Email: ambergum@usf.edu
William Haley, PhD
William Haley, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Aging Studies. His research focuses on stress, coping, and adaptation in older adults and their family members. This work has examined psychological, social and health impacts experienced by family members caring for relatives with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, cancer and terminal illness. His research also focuses on the development and evaluation of psychoeducational interventions to improve the adaptation of older adults facing stressful circumstances, including family caregiving, chronic illness, and bereavement. Current funded projects focus on family caregiving in stroke, and helping cancer patients cope with the stresses of chemotherapy.
Office: MHC 1343
Phone: 813-974-9739
Email: whaley@usf.edu
Ardis Hanson, PhD
Ardis Hanson is a Research Coordinator at the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (CBCS) at the University of South Florida. She was the former director of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute Research Library. Ardis received her doctorate in Communication, with a focus on organizational and health communication, and her Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. Her Bachelor of Fine Arts is from the University of Tampa.
Office: MHC 1110
Phone: 813-974-9607
Email: hanson@usf.edu
Christa Haring, PhD, CCC-SLP
Christa Haring, PhD, CCC-SLP is a Research Assistant Professor and Research Associate with the HIPPY USA National Research and Evaluation Center in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on improving language and literacy outcomes for children and parents in poverty. She has conducted multiple reading and vocabulary intervention studies as part of research centers and IES grants across the country. Her work encompasses an examination of parent and educator practices that improve outcomes for at-risk readers of all ages as well as the combination of evidence-based reading and comprehension strategies for students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders and who are Deaf or hard of hearing.
Office: MHC 1110
Phone: 813-396-9219
Email: charing@usf.edu
Diane Haynes, MA
Diane Haynes is a Statistical Data Analyst in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. Her primary research interests involve research using large administrative data sets in mental health policy and employing different statistical methods to examine the patterns of individuals across multiple social agencies over time, which includes eight years experience working with local county data collaboratives in Florida.
Office: MHC 2621
Phone: 813-974-2056
Email: dchayne2@usf.edu
Kathleen Heide, PhD
Kathleen Heide, PhD, holds the rank of Professor of Criminology. Her publication record includes four books and more than 150 articles and professional papers in the areas of adolescent homicide, parricide, family violence, personality assessment, and juvenile justice. latest book, Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents, is the culmination of her 25 years of research and clinical evaluation involving parricide victims and offenders.
Office: SOC 311
Phone: 813-974-9543
Email: kheide@cas.usf.edu
Holly Hills, PhD
Holly Hills, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at USF. In addition to her teaching and research duties at USF, she does training and consulting with service providers and systems focused on improving care for persons with serious mental illness and addictive disorders.
Office: MHC 2717
Phone: 813-974-1923
Email: hills@usf.edu
Sharon Hodges, PhD, MBA
Sharon Hodges, PhD, MBA, is a Research Associate Professor and Division Director in the Department of Child and Family Studies. As an applied organizational anthropologist, Dr. Hodges has more than 20 years of experience working with community coalitions in children's mental health. Her research, training, and technical assistance efforts have focused on service system development and change, and her expertise includes qualitative and applied ethnographic field methods.
Office: MHC 2437
Phone: 813-974-6460
Email: hodges@fmhi.usf.edu
Kathryn Hyer, PhD MPP
Kathryn Hyer's research is on the organization, staffing, training, policies, and financing of long-term care in varied settings along the continuum of long term care. She is interested in the impact of State and federal regulations on assisted living and nursing home residents' quality of care and quality of life, especially at the end of life. Her research includes program evaluation with a special emphasis on evaluation of geriatric educational interventions for health professionals and students.
Office: MHC 1341
Phone: 813-974-3232
Email: khyer@usf.edu
Wesley Jennings, PhD
Wesley Jennings, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Criminology. His major research interests include longitudinal data analysis, police body-worn cameras, sex offending, gender, race/ethnicity, the victim-offender overlap, and early childhood prevention
Office: SOC 308
Phone: 813-974-8024
Email: jenningswgj@usf.edu
Melissa Johnson, MA, MPH
Melissa Johnson, MA, MPH, is an applied anthropologist and senior social and behavioral researcher in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the University of South Florida. She performs research on child welfare and children's mental health services, both within the state of Florida and nationally.
Office: MHC 2428
Phone: 813-974-5356
Email: mhjohns4@usf.edu
Monica Landers, MA, MSW
Monica Landers, MA, MSW, is an Social and Behavioral Researcher in the Department of Child & Family Studies. Monica endeavors to utilize her educational background and work experiences in order to positively affect the lives of adolescents involved in, or who are at risk of involvement in, the juvenile justice system. While completing her graduate education, Monica has held several positions in direct care with at-risk adolescents at a juvenile detention facility, juvenile residential facility, and an alternative school, as well as youth involved in the child welfare system.
Office: MHC 2413C
Phone: 813-974-6135
Email: mdlander@usf.edu
Celia Lescano, PhD
Dr. Lescano received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (Clinical and Health Psychology – concentration in Clinical Child/Pediatric area) from the University of Florida, and completed an APA-approved internship in clinical psychology at the University of Miami. Following internship she completed a NIMH T32 post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at the Brown University School of Medicine, and subsequently received an appointment at Brown University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, where she served as faculty member from 2000-2010.
Office: MHC 1723
Email: lescano@usf.edu
Jennifer Lister, PhD, CCC-A, FAAA
Jennifer Lister, PhD, CCC-A, FAAA, is a Professor and Interim Chair in the the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders. She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, and is a Licensed Audiologist by the State of Florida Department of Health. Her areas of research interest are aging, auditory processing, auditory training, and cortical auditory evoked potentials. She is currently studying methods of assessing and remediating age-related auditory processing disorders, with the ultimate goal of creating tools that may be of use to clinical audiologists in treating older adult patients.
Office: PCD 4014
Phone: 813-974-9712
Email: lister@cas.usf.edu
Carol MacKinnon-Lewis, PhD
Carol MacKinnon-Lewis, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies. Her areas of research and professional interest include adolescents' family and peer interactions, social information processing, and youth aggression in the family and school. She has conducted longitudinal research focusing on the transition to middle school in which she examined family, peer, and school factors that contribute to aggression and academic outcomes. More recently her research has included the use of technology as a vehicle for the dissemination and implementation of preventive interventions, training, and practices in the field.
Office: MHC 2438
Phone: 813-974-2075
Email: cmackinnon@fmhi.usf.edu
Roxann McNeish, PhD, MSW
Office: MHC 2417
Phone: 813-974-9897
Email: mcneish@usf.edu
Victor Molinari, PhD, ABPP
Victor Molinari, PhD, ABPP, is the post-doctoral representative of the Council of Professional Geropsychology Training Programs and a member of APA's Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disorders. He is a fellow of APA's Division 20 (Adult Development & Aging) and the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of The Gerontological Society of America. His major research interests include mental health outcomes in long term care sites, serious mental illness in nursing homes, reminiscence therapy, and personality disorder in older adults.
Office: MHC 1320
Phone: 813-974-1960
Email: vmolinari@usf.edu
Kathleen Moore, PhD
Kathleen Moore, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. Her primary focus is in the area of substance abuse and mental health. Currently, Dr. Moore is working on several community-based research projects with local substance abuse and mental health providers. Her emphasis has been on project evaluation, bridging the gap between research and practice, and social policy issues such as co-occurring disorders, homelessness, and jail diversion.
Office: MHC 2712
Phone: 813-974-2295
Email: kamoore@usf.edu
Roger Peters, PhD
Roger Peters, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy where he has been a faculty member since 1986. He has pursued research, consultation, and training initiatives involving substance abuse treatment within the criminal justice system. He has published frequently in major journals, served on federal expert panels, grant and document reviews, national advisory boards and committees, and has served as a consultant to numerous federal and state agencies.
Office: MHC 2733
Phone: 813-974-9299
Email: rhp@usf.edu
Khary Rigg, PhD
Khary Rigg, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. His primary research interests involve the use, abuse, and diversion of controlled prescription medications (e.g., opioids, sedatives, stimulants), and HIV prevention/treatment among African-Americans. Dr. Rigg is also interested in veterans' post-deployment mental health, pain management in patients with mental disorders, theories of behavioral change, racial/ethnic health(care) disparities, and mixed method/community-based participatory research.
Office: MHC 2716
Phone: 813-974-5476
Email: rigg@usf.edu
Stephen Roggenbaum, MA
Stephen Roggenbaum is employed in the Division of State and Local Support. He has been employed at USF since 1983. His experience includes training, consultation, and evaluation in residential programs for children with emotional disturbances, evaluation and case review projects, curriculum development, and technical assistance support to contracts/grants. Mr. Roggenbaum's primary areas of research focus include child welfare and suicide prevention.
Office: MHC 2406
Phone: 813-974-6149
Email: roggenba@fmhi.usf.edu
Larry Schonfeld, PhD
Larry Schonfeld, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. Previously he has served as FMHI Interim Executive Director (2011-2014), and in the Department of Aging and Mental Health Disparities as Chair (1989-1992 and 2006-2011), Assistant Chair (1987-1989), and director of treatment programs for older adults with substance abuse problems or mental illness (1984-1989). His research focuses on development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based practices for older adults, veterans, and college students.
Office: MHC 2738
Phone: 813-974-1946
Email: schonfel@usf.edu
Cathy Sowell, MSW, LCSW
Cathy Sowell is a senior social and behavioral researcher in the Department of Child & Family Studies within the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. She has clinical, administrative, and evaluation experience related to child, family and adult mental health, early childhood development, and child welfare services.
Office: MHC 2413
Phone: 813-974-3628
Email: csowell@usf.edu
Paul Stiles, JD, PhD
Paul Stiles, JD, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. In addition to a substantive focus on geriatric mental health services and policy, his research has involved the compilation, integration, analysis and dissemination of relatively large administrative data sets (e.g. Medicaid/Medicare eligibility and claims files, national hospital surveys, state mental health service regulatory databases) and the application of findings to public mental health systems and the mental health of older persons.
Office: MHC 2638
Phone: 813-974-9349
Email: stiles@usf.edu
Carla Stover, PhD
Carla Stover, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and clinical psychologist in the department of Mental Health Law and Policy. She has extensive clinical experience with families impacted by trauma and domestic violence including police-mental health collaboration with the Child Development-Community Policing Program, early intervention, and longer term evidence based treatments including Trauma Focused-CBT and Child Parent Psychotherapy.
Office: MHC 2735
Phone: 813-974-6019
Email: carlastover@usf.edu
Gregory Teague, PhD
Gregory Teague, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University. Specific research interests have included fidelity to program models, effectiveness of consumer-operated services, involvement of persons with mental illnesses in the criminal justice system, performance measurement, self-directed care, cost-effectiveness of services for people with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders, and consumer-provider relationships.
Office: MHC 2734
Phone: 813-974-7185
Email: teague@usf.edu
Larry Thompson, EdD
Dr. Thompson is a Courtesy Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy. He teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of the University and coordinates a wide array of training initiatives for governmental and not-for-profit behavioral healthcare agencies. He writes and consults on ethics, professional preparation, professionalism, and law enforcement emergency response systems.
Office: MHC 2529
Phone: 813-974-9003
Email: larryt@usf.edu
Rick Weinberg, PhD
Rick Weinberg, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (RMHC). He has been in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences and FMHI since 1977, when he was a graduate research assistant. He earned a PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from USF, and was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School/Mass General Hospital in 1980-81. For 25 years he directed the APA-accredited predoctoral psychology internship at FMHI and in 2003 was awarded APPIC's Internship Excellence award. In 2009 Dr. Weinberg moved to RMHC where he teaches Couple's Therapy, Family Therapy, and Medical Family Therapy in the Master's program; and Behavioral Health & the Family for undergrads. Since 2013 Dr. Weinberg has taught a course, Intimate Relationships for the USF in Florence Summer Abroad program. In 2014 Dr. Weinberg was awarded USF's Outstanding Teaching Award.
Office: MHC 1632
Phone: 813-974-1916
Email: weinberg@usf.edu
James Winarski, MSW
James Winarski, MSW, joined the faculty in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy in February 2004. He provides technical assistance and training in the areas of assessment, development, and implementation of behavioral health programs, with a special focus on recovery oriented services for persons with serious mental illnesses and services for persons who are homeless. Mr. Winarski has been working in coordination with state and local authorities to transform Florida's mental health system to a recovery/resiliency orientation.
Office: MHC 2713
Phone: 813-974-6490
Email: JWinarski@usf.edu
Svetlana Yampolskaya, PhD
Svetlana Yampolskaya, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Child & Family Studies. Dr. Yampolskaya's research focuses on prevention of violence against children and improving outcomes for youth in the child protection system. She has been Principal Investigator and co-investigator on numerous studies examining issues related to child maltreatment, fatal child abuse, mental health, and involvement with juvenile justice among youth in the child protection system.
Office: MHC 2435
Phone: 813-974-8218
Email: yampol@fmhi.usf.edu
M. Scott Young, PhD
Scott Young, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy. Combining his interests in both MIS and psychology, Dr. Young has received and worked on grants and contracts using behavioral healthcare administrative data sets to examine mental health and substance use policy issues, and he has also collaborated on corrections- and community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment evaluations at the system-, agency-, and program-levels.
Office: MHC 2713
Phone: 813-974-8734
Email: SYoung1@usf.edu
